FLASH
Shkruar nga Pamfleti
The history of the relations of Muslim Chams with Christians, during the fascist occupation of Greece, must be seen, judged and evaluated on the basis of extensive documentation of the time, as well as undeniable truths. It is a well-known fact that at this time, Muslim Chams and Christians found themselves side by side, to protect themselves from evil and unconscionable elements. The first measures to establish Muslim and Christian villages began in 1939, when Fascist Italy invaded Albania. Relying on early Albanian traditions, covenants were created between them.
Year 1940, the Muslim-Christian alliance of the Chams
The first covenant between Muslims and Christians was the one that was created in the cauldron of Margellichi, in 1940. According to this covenant, the Muslim villages of Margellichi and the Christian villages of Frari, Shenica, Livadhia, Llur, etc., would occupy positions common, to repel any threat that would come to their villages.
The points where the positions were to be fought were even determined. The defensive lines would be at the place called Fujat, a strategic point that controlled every entrance and exit to that area, as well as the Arpice-Aji line. The covenant was also extended between the villages of the Kasa of Paramithi, as well as between the village of Kurtes and the Christian village of Draganj.
A powerful covenant was also created in the cauldron of Filat; even since the time of the Ottoman rule. To the east of the city of Filat, there were four Christian villages: Fanasomeri, Finiqi, Jeromeri and Sidheri, which were known by the name KALLOHOR (good villages). The Christian inhabitants of these four villages were distinguished as hardworking and honest people, generous and hospitable and very correct with Muslims.
In 1940, when the government made the first internment of the majority of the Chamerian Muslims, some Christians from the deep villages of Filat thought that the opportune moment had come to plunder the wealth of the defenseless Cham families. It was the Christian villagers who protected the Muslim villages of Filat, and with their intervention, it was possible to protect many Muslim families...!
Greek massacre: Kristo Pituli supports the Chams
The parish of Christians in Cham, inspired by the desire to live in harmony and in a good neighborliness with the Cham minority, not only took protection of Muslim Chams from evil elements, but went even further. Thus, for example, Kristo Pituli, representative of one of the most vocal Christian families in Chameria and throughout Greece, as a sign of protest against the decision of the government of Metaksai, against the Cham Albanian minority, went to the village of Grikohor, near his friends Muslims and as much as he could, he would defend them.
There he found the commander of Korofillaqia of the region, Vardhallaq, a Greek from the depths of Greece, newly appointed to the post of Commander of the Region. Kristo Pituli, when he learned that the mission of the commander of Korofillaqia in the village of Grikohor, was to arrest the pariah of the village and, to send them immediately into exile, he addressed:
- "Commander! What good did he bring you to this village, which has only good and hardworking people"?
- "Government work, Mr. Pituli", he answered.
- "Before you carry out the government's blind orders, you should also ask us, who have long acquaintance and centuries-old coexistence with them. Where did you find these dangerous elements that you blacklisted and sought to exile? If I am dangerous for the Greek government, so are the Chams of Grikohori and all of Chameria", - addressed Kristo Pituli.
Then, he continued: "The decision you made to deport the Muslims of this village is not right. You are a stranger. Today you are here, tomorrow you go, while we have lived and will live together with them. We don't want you to pay for your sins", (Jani Sarras, summarized work, p.617).
How did the mass cleansing of Chameria begin?!
At the small pier of Gumenica harbor, the Cham elite from Filati, Paramithia, Grikohori and Varfanji, from Margëlliçi and Nista, from Skopjona and Vrohonaji, from Dolani and Globoçari, from Versela and Peshtani, from Grava and Luarati, etc. had gathered. . Only Greek ships were expected to leave for the distant islands of Greece.
Christo Pitulis and many other wise Christians saw with concern these shameful scenes of the Greek government. At the time when many of his Cham friends had cut ties with their families and relatives and were desperately waiting for the departure, not knowing where they would end up, Kristo Pituli went among them.
He hugs those who were without any protection, gives them courage and meanwhile puts his hands in his pockets and without looking at what the other hand has, he says in a low voice: "Take it so you don't need it on the way". And in order not to offend the country's agallars at the seder, he added: "It's not that you don't have a master, but you didn't think that you would go far"!
Internimi i çamëve bëri që popullsia e mbetur në Çamëri dhe kryesisht gratë, fëmijët e të moshuarit, të përballen në raste sporadike me dhunën e plaçkitjet nga elementë të veçantë të krishterë. Por, njëkohësisht, të dallojë e të jetë në një mbrojtje e dashamirësi masive të komunitetit të krishterë në fshatrat e qytetet e Çamërisë.
Si u mbrojtën nga pushkatimi 500 gra e fëmijë çamë?
Përpjekjet e qarqeve shoviniste greke, asnjëherë nuk arritën që me propagandën e tyre, ta zëvendësonin dashurinë dhe respektin e sidheriotëve për myslimanët, me urrejtje e dasi fetare. Përkundrazi. Të krishterët e fshatit Sidher, asnjëherë nuk u pajtuan me qëndrimet antinjerëzore e barbare, që ndërmorën forcat qeveritare greke dhe bandat e Napolon Zervës.
Sidheriotët e ndiqnin me dhembje e dëshpërim dramën çame dhe përpiqeshin të ishin pranë tyre, edhe në momentet e vështira, për t’u ardhur në ndihmë. Sidheriotët, kur mësuan se bandat e Napolon Zervës, bënin reprezalje mbi popullsinë çame në Filat, duke vrarë gra, plaka e fëmijë apo përdhunonin vajza e nuse të reja, u ngritën në mbrojtje të popullsisë së pambrojtur myslimane.
Kur sidheriotët mësuan se në shkollën e Filatit, ishin izoluar 500 gra e fëmijë çamër dhe nga çasti në çast përgatitej nga edeistët ekzekutimi i tyre në një varr masiv, burrat dhe gratë e Sidherit, u rreshtuan para shkollës dhe me këmbënguljen e tyre të vendosur, deri në përleshje me forcat greke e paramilitarët, u arrit që viktimat të shpëtonin dhe të përcilleshin drejt kufirit shqiptar.
Banorët e Sidherit, me qëndrimin e vendosur të tyre, arritën ta marrin për në shtëpitë e tyre në Sidher, gratë, vajzat dhe fëmijët myslimanë të fshatit Galbaq, që gjendeshin të izoluara në shkollën e Filatit. Ndërkohë, sipas dokumenteve arkivore të kohës e dëshmive të viktimave të mbijetuara, paria e fshatit të Sidherit pas disa javësh, me anën e djemve të fshatit, i përcolli gratë e fëmijët drejt Sarandës…!
Paralajmërimi i shpërfillur…!
Fill pas masakrës që kryen bandat e Napolon Zervës kundër myslimanëve shqiptarë në Paramithi më 27 qershor 1944, paniku pushtoi gjithë banorët e Çamërisë. Sipas dokumenteve arkivore, Dhimitrulla, një grua fisnike, e dërguar nga paria e Finiqit, shkon në Filat dhe lajmëron bashkatdhetarët çamë: “Të dashur vëllezër myslimanë! Jam e dërguar nga paria e Finiqit.
Jam e porositur t’u them: Mos dëgjoni fjalët e askujt! Të gjithë ju duhet të largoheni si njerëz, se vendimi është se edhe macet tuaja do t’i zhdukin”, (“Agapitemoi adhelfia othomani, ime opostelmeni apotin epitropi tou Finiqiou. Min akusete ta lloja tou kathena. Oli esis na fijete san anthropi, olla qe tis gatesas tha tin sfaksun…”).
Musa Demi, një nga prijësit e Filatit dhe bashkëpunëtorët e tij, e falënderuan vajzën për njoftimet që u përcillte nga miqtë e tyre dashamirës të krishterë dhe i thanë asaj t’u përcillte atyre mirënjohjen, jo vetëm të parisë, por të gjithë myslimanëve të Filatit.
The Paria of Filati, despite all the very alarming signals he received, did not take any action to empty the city and villages and emigrate to Albania. The reason was that the information they received was vague and contradictory. They hoped very much that the crimes of Paramithi would not be repeated in Filat, also for another fact: the Mufti of Ioannina had received a promise from the Chairman of the International Red Cross, Lambert, that the Chams would be provided with life, honor and wealth .
This is made known to us by the historian, Georgia Kretsi, a good connoisseur of the Cham problem in the years 1913-1960. She wrote: "The mufti of Ioannina begged the President of the International Red Cross to intervene to free the Chams who were in the concentration camps of the city of Paramithi and Margellichi".
Following her article, the historian informs us of the answer given to the mufti of Ioannina, in August 1944, by the chairman of the Red Cross, Lambert: (Georgia Kretsi, "The Secret. Post of the Greek-Albanian Borrlands Cham Muslim Albanians' perceptions on a conflict over historical accountability and current rights", article in "Ethnologia Balkanika", vol. 6, year 2003, p. 183, cited according to the Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Greece (AYE) 1943- 1944/2, Lambert to the Committee representing the Muslims of Chameria, 08.07.1944)/ Memorie.al
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