FLASH
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Today, 86 years old, Muharrem Mezani is one of the few surviving witnesses who saw with his own eyes the genocide against the Chams by the Greek servist forces 80 years ago. At that time, only 6 years old, he arrived in the villages of Fier, after an exhausting journey on foot from Çameria.
In the summer of 1944, most of the inhabitants of the village of Mazrek in the municipality of Margëllic, today with the changed name of Margariti, as soon as they heard about the massacres of the Albanians of Paramithi, left for Albania.
Without taking anything with them, they traveled to Igoumenica on foot. When they arrived in the village of Sajavë, word got out that they could return to Çamëri again. And so they did. They returned to Filat where they stayed for two months, not knowing that they would witness one of the most terrible massacres against the civilian population. It was September 1944!
Filati, a town with an Albanian population in Northern Greece, would experience terror. With around 1300 killed and disguised, many Albanians fell prey to promises that no one would touch them.
"At 12:00 in the night, he took us away completely, entered the house and when he came out of Filati, it was like a square, he gathered us there and we were small, and our mother used to carry us. At the exit of Filati, there are some Kojdhels, we say, turn, they had come out, the Greeks had occupied both sides of the causeway with machine guns,' said Muharrem Mezani, a survivor of the Çameria massacre.
While the Albanian population was fleeing in terror, without being able to take anything with them, on both sides of the streets of Filat were lined up soldiers with weapons who committed some of the most macabre murders on the civilian population.
As soon as we entered the second bend, I saw there a Greek shot in the middle of the head of one who was loaded with clothes on his back. Then a Greek stopped the father, we shouted, at this time the mother took us and the father said take the boys and run away, don't ask about me, we ran away, looked back and thought they had killed him.
Then I remember it was a Greek, a tall soldier had a yellow machete 2 meters, he took off his hat and it fell on the middle of his head pam, because the little one remembers. If you looked at the slaughter you did in Filat, the little one remembers, I remember three or four corpses on the ground,' said Muharrem Mezani, a survivor of the Çameria massacre./ InsideStory
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