The expulsion of Cham Albanians from Greece was the forced migration and ethnic cleansing of thousands of Cham Albanians from settlements of Chameria in Thesprotia, Greece - after the Second World War to Albania, at the hands of elements of the Greek Resistance: the National Republican Greek League (EDES) (1944) and EDES veteran resistance fighters (1945); the expulsion was encouraged by the Allied mission under Colonel C.M. Woodhouse. The causes of the expulsion were multifaceted and remain a matter of debate among historians. Modern historiographical narratives argue that the causes involved the pre-existing Greek policies which targeted the minority and sought its elimination and local property disputes which were instrumentalized after WWII while Cham collaboration with the Axis forces