Amidst the photographs and pain, an exhibition was opened commemorating the 82nd anniversary of the Greek genocide against the Albanian population of Çamëria.

With photographs, all those who were forcibly driven from their homes more than eight decades ago and then executed were opened.

This was made possible through the exhibition held today by the association “Çamëria” – Kosovo, which gathered representatives of the associations, soldiers of UCK, artists and citizens.

The head of this association, Nexhmi Muçiqi, said that this is how they are contributing to not forgetting this past, especially for the new generations.

‘Chameria is a flower that needs to be watered every day. Not that we are doing a great job, but I believe and am convinced that we are contributing to not forgetting, we are contributing to the new generations not to forget you. So, for 82 years, it is not by chance that Greece tries to prolong this issue so that the Albanians forget. But, honorable gentlemen, no, the Albanians will not forget, they will work with generations from generation to generation”, said Muçiqi.

The former KLA fighter, Sabit Geci, has asked the Albanians for their commitment to the liberation of ethnic lands because, according to him, nothing comes without hard work and sacrifice.

“Talking about Chameria is a valuable thing. If we talk about it and do not act, it is even more terrible. One thing we need to fight is silence and action. So nothing is freed without some effort and sacrifice. I had begged all the participants and every Albanian to commit to the liberation of those lands, where I was a few years ago, I visited all of Chameria and saw everything there. Then I see it first: “Chameri, Kosovo is with us”. I must say that Albanians are with you, not Kosovo, but all Albanians. When we started the war, we started for the unification of the Albanian lands, of which Çameria was a part. And then we took the oath for the unification of all Albanian lands, not to be divided into neighborhoods, villages and alleys, but the unification of Albanian lands”, said Geci.

The guest, Qendrim Kryeziu, expressed the same as the KLA fighter, who emphasized that all Albanians are with Çamëria and that it is the last Albanian area, which experienced the greatest disaster. Albanian.

“I, like Commander Geci, am not the one saying “Kosovo is with you”. We are all Albanians everywhere with you. Because Çamëria is only an Albanian area where it is the last Albanian area, which experienced the greatest Albanian disaster just as we were experiencing in 1999 in Arbëri here in Pristina. We have also forgotten the city of Thonë or Athens because it is the city and the Albanian cradle, the cradle of Illyria, the cradle of Pelasgia, so, where the Albanian language began to be spoken and spoken for the first time”, said Kryeziu.

And the artist, Naim Abazi said that Çamëria is a deep wound that has not yet been healed in the historical consciousness of Albanians and that the photographs of the exhibition are silent evidence of a time of dark.

“We have not gathered just to look at pictures. We have gathered to remember a great national tragedy, a deep wound that has not yet been healed in the historical consciousness of Albanians. Chameria represents the suffering, doing and sacrifice of an entire population, which faced persecution, massacres and its cleansing from the lands where it had lived for centuries. The pictures we see today are silent evidence of a dark time. They speak of destroyed families, of orphaned children, of women and old men killed or forced to leave behind everything they had built over the generations. They talk about burnt houses, looted properties and a people who were forcibly expelled from their homeland”, said Abazi.

While the other guest Arta Makolli added that this is not only a calendar date, but also a moment of historical responsibility.

“Today we are here to commemorate this anniversary of the genocide against the Chams, one of the most serious wounds in the nation’s history. Albanian—genocide and violent expulsion of Chameria Albanians from their lands. This anniversary is not just a calendar date, it is a moment of reflection, it is a moment of remembrance, it is a moment of historical responsibility. We remember the thousands of men, women and children who lost their lives there, were massacred and forced to leave their lands by force”, continued Makolli.

The exhibition was opened in the morning at the “Grand” hotel in Pristina and welcomes visitors until 14:00.

Source: prizrenpost