A vendetta ends after decades with “Sasmo”, the custom of reconciliation



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The “archive” of the society and families involved in Mylopotamos, Rethymno, includes a multi-year vendetta, between three families in Zoniana. Since approximately 25 years The problems began first in two and then in three families of Zoniana Mylopotamos, due to family disputes, problems with pastures and real estate claims. Today the three families reconcile with each other, with Sasmos breaking the shackles of revenge and tying them through three consecrations, baptisms, which were agreed. Through the sacrament of the church of baptism, the custom of Sasmo, of mediation, that is, for the peaceful solution of problems, the families involved in vendetta now end up with tensions, disputes, frictions of time.

The protagonists of this development are the participants of Sasmo, the custom that helps to resolve disputes between families. It is the people of Sasmos who for months the family members chatted, They created a climate of trust, reconciliation, transmitted messages from one family to another and finally, as everything shows, Sasmos was achieved. ΑΠΕ – ΜΠΕ contacted people who starred in Sasmo, who don’t want their names made public. Faces that today Saturday and tomorrow Sunday they will attend the meetings of the godparents with their baptisms. The families will exchange visits, so the gatherings will be formally closed and the godparents will come into contact with the young children who for life will be bound by the oath of care and protection between them. «The godparents are young adolescents of 15 and 16 years old, who received the instruction to baptize the girls, participating since they were girls in the essence and in the movement that now brings a happy end to a long and turbulent period for the families involved in the vendetta. “All these years, it must be recognized, they lived with insecurity, mental tension and daily stress as companions of the unknown development of Vendetta”, referred to the RES EIA.

“For so many months, a team of Sastades from Anogia, Livadia and Zoniana, we gave our fight, to stop Vendetta. A difficult fight of seven “fellow citizens” of Psiloritis but also a sacred fight, since the future of the families hung in our decisions after the episodes of the summer of 2020, which took those involved to hospitals and prisons “.said the specific man who wants to exalt the morale and contribution of his friends in Sasmos. Arriving in Sasmos, as he told us, The Crete Police Directorate was immediately informed, as a result, the police forces that had recently made their presence felt in the specific area left. At the same time, as noted in APE BPE, all members of the families involved will inform the Prosecutor’s Office in the next few days that Vendetta has ended and do not ask for the criminal prosecution of anyone, while jointly requesting their release. of one of the protagonists of the summer episode of 2020. during which shots were fired and there were also beatings.

“Today Saturday, the families now reconciled will participate in the knowledge of the children who will be baptized through an ancient custom of Koutsanichism. The adolescent godparents who surrendered their hands for co-baptism will cross the threshold of the houses where the children to be baptized live and cut off a fingernail. In this way, the bond between the godfather’s family and the parents of the child to be baptized is linked. An inseparable link for the local communities of Crete and especially for the mountainous areas “, informed APE – MPE a member of Anogia from the Sastades team. Sasmos, as he explained, is a very old custom that has kept small local mountain communities afloat and has often proven to be much more effective than many other ways of trying to resolve disputes. “I could say that Sasmos is today’s diplomacy where diplomats and mediators begin to solve serious problems even between states. The participants of a Sasmo are people with respect for the local communities, whose opinion is sought, respected, accepted and respected by their fellow citizens and not only. It is an honor for me to personally participate in this Sasmos together with my other six fellow citizens from Zoniana Anogia and Livadia, with whom we finally managed to unite three families after decades. We all had as a compass that in these difficult places that we live, the only thing that can keep us upright is the sympathy and harmony between us. We have achieved it and the seven Sástades are sure that the godparents will be worthy of their contributions, the families will live in peace and peace will prevail in the local community of Zoniana ”, said one of the participants in Sasmo.

Against the current Sastades team other people had made attempts but that for various reasons did not achieve the desired results. “For more than 7 months with more than 20 meetings that lasted each one even ten – twelve hours, we listened to everyone involved, even the children that the adults had by their side in the meetings. Families of farmers who have learned to live with nature in all its alternations, hard and calm, wild and leveling. These people, all wounded and with the pain of Vendetta for years, lived and grew up with a very damaged daily life, with the anxiety of knowing where it could lead them every day “., was narrated in ΑΠΕ ΜΠΕ.

The strongest phrase that moved the night Sasmos was achieved was “… instead of giving an ear, start a new page with love and unity, erasing everything that slows us down. Play for our children and grandchildren”. Strong moments as they told us since from that moment there are brighter and calmer faces in the Vendetta families. “But our fight is not over.” We have to educate the girls and create the new Sastades, young boys who take the reins with the decision of our elders so that in the future Vendetta or Vendetta have no place in our societies ” noted one of Sassmos’s witnesses.After all, mountaineering societies are so self-sufficient with a strong sense of self-preservation that their continuation is largely the result of encouragement, instruction, and encouragement from generation to generation.

Source: ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ

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