James Pettifer The Greek Minority in Albania in the Aftermath of CommunismΑρχειοθετήθηκε 2016-03-04 στο Wayback Machine., p. "It is not clear to what extent MAVI was a significant political and paramilitary formation rather than merely a fanatical splinter group. At the time, the Albanian government claimed that Greek army and secret police personnel were involved in the attacks. The name is adopted from the wartime Northern Epirot organisation which fought as a separate resistance group against the Axis in 1943. It was destroyed in vicious fighting with the German occupiers and the Albanian nationalist forces of the Balli Kombetar, and it
played no part in the final liberation of the country.
James Pettifer The Greek Minority in Albania in the Aftermath of CommunismΑρχειοθετήθηκε 2016-03-04 στο Wayback Machine., p. "It is not clear to what extent MAVI was a significant political and paramilitary formation rather than merely a fanatical splinter group. At the time, the Albanian government claimed that Greek army and secret police personnel were involved in the attacks. The name is adopted from the wartime Northern Epirot organisation which fought as a separate resistance group against the Axis in 1943. It was destroyed in vicious fighting with the German occupiers and the Albanian nationalist forces of the Balli Kombetar, and it
played no part in the final liberation of the country.