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>NATO military forces brutally attacked and injured nearly three dozen Orthodox Christian Serbians
That Flag though.
Albania is another Ukraine, isn't it?
Albania
Country in the Balkans
Albania, on Southeastern Europe’s Balkan Peninsula, is a small country with Adriatic and Ionian coastlines and an interior crossed by the Albanian Alps. The country has many castles and archaeological sites. Capital Tirana centers on sprawling Skanderbeg Square, site of the National History Museum, with exhibits spanning antiquity to post-communism, and frescoed Et’hem Bey Mosque. ― Google
February 23, 2022
The Cham Issue: How Albania turned Nazi collaborators into victims
In the past decades, the Albanian state and its institutions have waged intensive lobbying for what they call “The Cham Issue”, in which they accuses Greece of committing a genocide in the aftermath of World War II when in fact quite the opposite is the case.
What’s behind these baseless claims and why is it extremely dangerous to buy into this type of Albanian revisionism?
Albanian Nazi Collaboration during World War 2
During World War II, when Greece was occupied by Italy, Germany and Bulgaria following the invasion of 1941, everyone wanted to get their share out of the suffering country.
Among those opportunists were the so called “Chams”, a Muslim minority population that lived in north-western Greece and co-inhabited an area they call “Chameria”, roughly corresponding to the coastal parts of Epirus.
These Chams, driven by ultranationalist sentiments of the other occupying forces promising them a Greater Albanian state, started participating in systematic killings of the local Greek population.
Because of their geographic knowledge of the region, they were of particular value and in their organisation of family clans, formed battalions for more efficient looting, pillaging and burning of entire Greek villages.
In collaboration with the Nazis, they started “Operation Augustus” (from July 29th to August 31st 1943).
In the operation, more than 600 Greek villagers were killed, 70 villages in the region destroyed, more than 500 Greek citizens taken hostages and 160 of them even sent to forced labour in Nazi Germany.
Even the German generals were surprised at the amount of violence and efficiency the Chams showed, with Major Stöckert saying they “performed very well” and gifted them further equipment.
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Balli Kombetar; a Nazi puppet guerrilla of Albanians
The most horrific episode of the occupation occurred during the so-called “Paramythia incident” on 27th September 1943.
53 Greeks were executed and Cham Albanians were part of the firing squad.
This and the surrounding incidents have been thoroughly investigated by Hans Jakob Bickel, a Swiss representative of the Red Cross, who during his visit described the events as follows:
"20,000 Albanians, with Italian and now German support, spread terror to the rest of the population. Only In the region of Fanari 24 villages were destroyed.
The entire harvest was taken by them.
In my trip I realized that the Albanians kept the Greeks terrified inside their homes.
Young Albanians, just finished form school, wandered heavily armed.
The Greek population of Igoumenitsa had to find refuge in the mountains, the Albanians had stolen all the cattle and the fields remain uncultivated."
After both Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy were defeated towards the end of World War II, the Cham Albanians lost their protecting masters and were quickly defeated by the Greek liberation forces of EDES, led by Napoleon Zervas.
As Greek forces entered the occupied territories to free their population, reprisals began against the Albanians, sometimes even resulting in revenge attacks and the expulsion of Chams.
This is what propagandists are now trying to exploit as a “genocide”.
However, many Albanian Nazi collaborators and war criminals already fled to Albania as they feared being prosecuted for their atrocities; thus many crimes remain unpunished to this date and the Greek population completely non compensated for what they endured.