Hajredin Isufi is currently 92 years old. He lives and breathes for the Çam issue every moment of his life. In an interview for Albanian Radio and Television (RTSH), he recounts how he came to Albania, the difficulties faced by hundreds of Çams forcibly displaced from Çamëria.

For the 92-year-old, the Çam community must work even harder so that the Çam issue takes on the right importance, while also he delivers a message for policy makers.

In the same line are the historian Pëllumb Xhufi and other well-known names of the Çam community.

This exhibition was opened by the “Hasan Tahsini” Çam Foundation, in the frame of the 80th anniversary of the genocide against Çams. 80 photographs testify the suffering and journey of the Çams from Greece to Albania.

While, the researcher of the Çam issue, Hajredin Isufi is one of the living witnesses of the genocide. He was 10 years old when he left home to come to Albania. It reminds of the steps of the long road in rain and sun.

Hajredin Isufi with an extraordinary archive at home documenting the genocide after many years returned home, but changing his identity and place of birth, otherwise he wouldn’t have been allowed to enter the southern neighboring state.

The exhibition “80 years of genocide” will stay open for several days.

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