On this day in 1984, the then Greek Prime Minister Andreas G. Papandreou, in his statements from Ioannina, where he was attending the established events taking place for the anniversary of the city's liberation from the Turkish yoke, made statements regarding the then-wintering Hellenism of Albania.
“…We should send a message to the government of Albania: There is an umbilical cord that rests on the Nation between the Greeks in the Greek space and the Greeks anywhere else. We will not tolerate violations of the human rights of the Greeks in Albania.”
The Greeks of Northern Epirus, who for thousands of years were and still are in their ancient Greek land, were imprisoned in their own part of Epirus, under inhumane conditions, persecuted, devastated, but always full of pride for their Greek soul.
