We are living perhaps the most critical and decisive moments for the future of this place, said the Speaker of Parliament Annita Dimitriou, in her speech on Remembrance Day and the 200th Anniversary of the Greek Revolution of 1821, at the Kokkinotrimithia Detention Center.
He noted that occupying Turkey, in parallel with its aggressive rhetoric, is escalating and expanding the challenges, both in Famagusta where it seeks to create new ones, with the ultimate goal of settling Varosia, and in the Cypriot EEZ implementing the policy of the gunners.
“We have no right to submit to the flag of the struggle, to stop working for the law of our homeland for a moment. We must continue our efforts to find a just and sustainable solution, with the aim of liberation from the Turkish yoke, the reunification of our homeland, the establishment of peace, security, stability. We owe it to all those who fought. They were tortured. They sacrificed. They sealed this place with their blood. “To all those who live again and again every night the nightmare of confinement and torture,” he added.
As he said, “we have no right to sleep peacefully at night. No, until we breathe the air of freedom and reunification of our place. This is our debt and our responsibility. For us, our children, for our Cyprus “.
Ms. Dimitriou said that more than sixty years since the beginning of the national liberation struggle of EOKA, today we mention here the witnesses, anonymous and anonymous, of the Cypriot freedom.
“More than sixty years later, we express our gratitude to our heroes. But should we ask ourselves if we stood, as we have been promised thousands of times, worthy of them? Did we justify their sacrifices and struggles? Or maybe we never really understood the meaning of such sacrifices? “So let us ask ourselves, even now, what will be our footprint in the next pages of history?” He added.
He said, in addition, that there is no choice but to follow in their footsteps.
“To put the collective national duty above the cheap and the individual. “To be useful, not necessarily likeable,” he noted.
He also mentioned that we are celebrating and honoring this year the 200th anniversary of the brightest moment in modern Greek history.
“The national uprising of 1821 to shake off the four-century Ottoman yoke that eventually led to the creation of the first independent Greek state in 1830. The revolution of 1821, with the heroic battles that unfolded throughout enslaved Greece and the manifestations of unparalleled bravery and is only a part of Greek history, but is a piece of world history. “He demonstrated to all enslaved peoples, around the world, the power of the soul, while at the same time highlighting internationally, as an example to imitate the greatness of the Greeks and the thirst for freedom”, he concluded.
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