After the collapse of Communism, Albania's am population established the am ria Association, dedicated to achieving the return of their expropriated lands in Greece. In the summer of 1991, then Greek Foreign Minister Karolas Papoulias responded that a bilateral commission should settle these demands. However, in reality, the chance of forming such a commission was slim, since current Greek law provides no legal means of challenging land requisitions by the Greek state.

After the Second World War, the official Greek position, still unofficially held today, was that the Muslim population of am ria collaborated with the German occupying forces during the war. As a result, they were?and are?considered war criminals and were sentenced as such under Greek law. Greek authorities approved a law sanctioning the expropriation of am ria properties, citing the community's collaboration with the Germans as the main reason for the decision.

Recently, Albania's am ria Association delivered a memorandum to the Albanian Republic Peoples Advocate demanding that the new advocacy institution exert its power to remedy this great injustice. 4000 ams were killed and another 150,000 were resettled. They have been exiled from their ancestral lands for 56 years, with no opportunity to visit the graves of their parents, siblings and children.