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This article provides some accurate information about the historical dates and battles fought. However, even these historical facts are shrouded in chauvinistic Greek propaganda about the origins of Suliots, their involvement in the Greek war of independence, and most outrageously the alleged "liberation" by Greece. Also, the outside links from this article refer to hate-filled propaganda pages raving about how Greeks are better than anybody else.
My grandfather - an Albanian-speaking Suliot - was born in Suli and lived in what is now Northern Greece until his mid twenties. After the alleged "liberation" his family was forced by the Greek governemnt to give up all their property in Suli and move to Janina - Ioannina - because they refused to convert to the Greek Orthodox Church. After WWII, my grandfather narrowly managed to escape to Canada from the massacre and forced deportation of the Albanian population of what is now Northern Greece - massacre orchestrated by the Greek government.
Suli had an Albanian and Greek population who more anything else where fighting together against the Turks.
Anyhow, the article is into the making, please be patient....— Preceding unsigned comment added by Montreal2004 (talk • contribs) 03:27, 2 August 2005 (UTC)