On this day, the national liberation organization EOKA begins its activity. Cyprus once again honors its heroes.

The following is the complete proclamation of its most controversial leader, Georgios Grivas: “Brother Cypriots, With the help of God, with faith in our honest struggle, with the support of the whole of Hellenism and with the help of the Cypriots, we undertake the struggle for the throwing off of the English yoke, with the motto that our ancestors used to give us: “It was then or then”. Cypriot brothers. From the depths of the centuries, all those who brightened Greek history in order to preserve their freedom are watching us: The Marathon fighters, the Salamin fighters, the Three Hundred of Leonidas and the younger ones of the Albanian epic. We are watched by the fighters of the 21st century, who taught us that liberation from the yoke of the dynasty is always obtained with blood. We are still watched together by Hellenism, the who watches us with anxiety, but also with national pride. Let us respond with works, that we will become “many carts of these”. It is time to show the world that if international diplomacy is unfair and largely cowardly, the Cypriot soul is bravely. If our dynasts do not want to yield our freedom, we can claim it with our own hands and blood. Let’s show the world once again that even today’s Greek “the neck of the yoke cannot endure”. The corner will be tough. The dynast has the means and the numbers. We dispose of the soul. We also have justice on our side. That’s why we will win. International Graduates. You stared at your work. It is a disgrace in the twentieth century that peoples should shed their blood in order to obtain their freedom, this divine gift for which we too fought on the side of your people and for which you at least claimed to have fought against Nazism and fascism. Greeks, Wherever you are, listen to our voice: Forward, all together for the freedom of our Cyprus.”

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