Ruches 1965: 156 "The villages of Polytsani and Malesiovon were in Epirote hands long enough to establish a headquarters and receive a British mission". Ruches, Pyrrhus J. (1965). Albania's captives. Chicago: Argonaut. p. 213.
Ruches 1965: In March 1943, 160 inhabitants of Korytsa were sent to concentration camps for suspected underground activities connected with the Northern Epirote resistance". Ruches, Pyrrhus J. (1965). Albania's captives. Chicago: Argonaut. p. 213.
Ruches 1965: 159 "Having to dislodge effectively the Northern Epirote guerillas... that were independent of the beys". Ruches, Pyrrhus J. (1965). Albania's captives. Chicago: Argonaut. p. 213.
Ruches 1965: 161 "As arranged 150 Northern Epirote representatives of the resistance...and would join FNC in attacks against the Axis forces only if the latter and its allies recognizes the future dispotition of Northern Epirus under the Atlantic Chapter's principles of self-determination" Ruches, Pyrrhus J. (1965). Albania's captives. Chicago: Argonaut. p. 213.
Ruches 1965: 161 "these terms were formalized in the Konispolis agreement... of the albanian worker party". Ruches, Pyrrhus J. (1965). Albania's captives. Chicago: Argonaut. p. 213.
Ruches 1965: 162 "In spite of this uneasy agreement... The FNC secretly marked Sachines for liquidation". Ruches, Pyrrhus J. (1965). Albania's captives. Chicago: Argonaut. p. 213.
Ruches 1965: 161 "The Ballist campaign of extermination...", 162 "fierce battles took place between Northern Epirotes and a mixed force of Balli chetas, Albanian fascist militia units and Germans. Ruches, Pyrrhus J. (1965). Albania's captives. Chicago: Argonaut. p. 213.
Ruches 1965: 163 In the presence of German officers... had passed that way." Ruches, Pyrrhus J. (1965). Albania's captives. Chicago: Argonaut. p. 213.
Ruches 1965: 163 "It was not until October... complete extinction". Ruches, Pyrrhus J. (1965). Albania's captives. Chicago: Argonaut. p. 213.
Ruches 1965: 132 "...as well as for the atrocities at Leskoviki and Tserka was the Ballist band of Safet Butka..." Ruches, Pyrrhus J. (1965). Albania's captives. Chicago: Argonaut. p. 213.
Ruches 1965: 166 "Thus, when the Northern Epirotes were cleared out of the region of Chimarra, Valona and Santi Quaranta, the Partisans were able to take their places" Ruches, Pyrrhus J. (1965). Albania's captives. Chicago: Argonaut. p. 213.
Ruches 1965: 167 "Ten Germans among them the German colonel in command, fell into the hands of the Northern Epirotes..." Ruches, Pyrrhus J. (1965). Albania's captives. Chicago: Argonaut. p. 213.
Ruches 1965: 172 "The entire carnage , arson and imprisonment suffered by the hands of Balli Kombëtar...schools burned". Ruches, Pyrrhus J. (1965). Albania's captives. Chicago: Argonaut. p. 213.
[1]On 10 April several gunmen crossed into Albania from Greece and stormed a border guard facility, killing two persons and seriously wounding three others before returning across the Greek border. A group calling itself the "Northern Epirus Liberation Front" (MAVI) claimed responsibility for the incident. It accused the Albanian Government of violating the rights of the ethnic Greek minority in Albania and berated Athens for not doing enough to support the minority. MAVI also issued a pamphlet last fall announcing the commencement of an "armed struggle" against Tirana and demanding, inter alia, the cessation of the alleged "colonization" of "Northern Epirus" -- the Greek name for southern Albania, which has a large ethnic Greek population -- by Albanians from the north. MAVI was the name of an ethnic Greek resistance group in Albania during World War II that operated first against the invading Italians and then against the Communists. Press reports state that the group was disbanded in the 1940s, although responsibility for the 1984 bombing of the Albanian Embassy in Athens was claimed in its name.
James Petiffer. The Greek minority in the aftermath of Communism. July 2001: "It was destroyed in vicious fighting with the German occupiers and the Albanian nationalist forces of the Balli Kombëtar,"
