August 14: A date that was to be connected with the worst tragedies that our island experienced, to be a tragic date for an entire province and a sad date for the entire Paralimni. 1974, 1996 and 2005 are the years when the tragic August, on the eve of the feast of the Virgin Mary, would be one of the most significant days when the black pages were written in the long history of our island.
August 14, 1974: "Attila II" completes the crime
Like today, 44 years ago, on the eve of August 14, 1974, the second phase of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus began, after the shipwreck caused by the Turks in the Geneva negotiations.
Attila 2 completed his work by occupying Famagusta, Karpasia and Morphou and leading the inhabitants of these areas to exile.
For a day of remembrance and honor, for those who lost their lives for the homeland, but also for reflection, parties and organizations speak in their announcements, emphasizing the need for national unity to face the Turkish challenges and to find a solution.
https://youtu.be/PJtP2A-YP80
August 14, 1996: The murder of Solomos at the Deryneia roadblock
Just like today, on August 14, 1996, 26-year-old Solomos Solomou, 26, fell dead from the bullets of the occupying forces, just three days after the murder of his cousin, Tassos Isaac, by Turkish soldiers, who beat him to death. zone in Deryneia, during an anti-occupation demonstration of Cypriot motorcyclists.
Solomos Solomou, on the day of the funeral of his cousin, Tassos Isaac, who was beaten mercilessly to death three days before the Gray Wolves, escaped from the Blue Helmets, passed into the dead zone and tried to climb a mast to download his while other protesters tried to stop him.
Turkish snipers from the opposite Turkish outpost shot him and Solomou fell dead from a bullet in the neck.
https://youtu.be/7xDt8T5u1nA
August 14, 2005: The "Sun" went out forever for three families from Paralimni
Thirteen whole years are completed this year since the tragic August of 2005, when another tragedy was to be added to the long-suffering history of our country.
The calendar showed August 14, 2005, when the 115 passengers and six crew members of Flight 522 of Ilios Airlines departed Larnaca Airport for Prague at 9 am and made a stopover at Eleftherios Venizelos Airport.
Three hours later, the fatal plane crashes in the mountainous area of Grammatiko in northern Attica. All passengers and crew are dead. Twenty-two children are among them.
The mourning for Paralimni, which mourned the loss of a total of twelve inhabitants, was particularly heavy. Two whole families, of Christos Pyrillis and Antonis Antoniou, went missing in the wreckage of the plane, as well as three of the four members of the Koutsofta family who left behind the then two-year-old Vassilis.
Thirteen years later, pain remains an unbearable burden and painful for those left behind. For those who buried children and grandchildren in the same grave on the same day, without, however, ever justifying the memory and loss of their loved ones.
Famagusta.News
