Friday, March 14, 2014
Causes of the conflict
Corfu 1923, a military crisis begins to grow between the Kingdom of Italy and the Kingdom of Greece. It all started when there was a boundary dispute between Albania and Greece, the Principality of Albania and the Kingdom of Greece took the issue to the Conference of Ambassadors, where Italian, English and French officials would determine a specific boundary between Greece and Albania and then the League of Nations would authorise the boundary. One of the Italian officials, Enrico Tellini, became the chairman of the commission. The Greeks accused Tellini for working in favour of Albania [1]. On the 27th of August 1923, General Enrico Tellini, three of his assistants and the interpreter he was working with were assassinated in Kakavia; right on the border of Albania and Greece, but it was within the Greek territory [2]. According to the Italian newspaper and the Albanian official statement, they claimed that the people responsible for the murder were Greek nationalists, where as the Greek official statement stated that the murderers were Albanian bandits [1].
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