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Shpëtim Idrizi tells the story of the family for the first time: Two Greeks came and looked for us, they lived in our house...
2024-07-18 23:34:05 / POLITIKË
The Parliament of Albania approved today the lifting of the prayer law with Greece. After this vote, PDIU leader Shpëtim Idrizi was invited to the Top Story show, where he spoke about this very important development for the Chams, while thanking his colleagues who voted for him.
He stated that the removal of this law is very important and heavy for the Chams, but not in terms of material, but in terms of emotions and human experiences.
For the first time, Idrizi also told a story of his family, when in 1989, two Greek citizens arrived in Tirana looking for his grandfather. According to Idrizi, they lived in his grandfather's house, taken after the deportation, and they wanted to meet him after his father had sent them.
"We want to either take the halal from them, or give them the money", they said according to him, further showing that the human relationship with today's Greek citizens or the government is not conflictual, but the Chams demand an apology public about the massacre.
"The issue of Chameria Albanians is the last issue of property. We are not keeping alive the memory of a house there. It was a prosperous country with wealth, of course there is a calculation, until before 1990 it was calculated that all the wealth left there was about 2 billion euros, imagine now. But it is the last in front of human lives... so we want to have a public apology in the first place, today we do not hold the Greek people and government responsible. We demand the status they had before '45, to return to our country, where we have our homes.
My house has a story that I am telling for the first time. In '87, two people from Greece came to the Tirana hotel, they were looking for the house of Mero Saliu, my grandfather, and they came out and shouted at them and said 'what did you come for? We live in his house, we've been all over, our father took us and we want to meet him and either get the halal or give him the money'. If I were to go there today, how would I deal with them? I would not take them out, or I would tell them to 'build a house at the end of the garden better than this, because I have this as a memory'. I am very grateful to my colleagues who voted for him", said Idrizi.
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