Isaac Solomou Memorial March: From Macheras to Famagusta (VIDEO)

This year's "Isaac-Solomos Memorial March", although different due to the restrictions in place to deal with the pandemic, runs the memory again and sends the message that motorcyclists are HERE to carry the meaning of the historical continuity of Cypriot Hellenism.

The number of participants will be specific and predetermined, due to the restrictions that apply, however the memory will run again. Starting from Macheras on Friday, August 7, the motorcyclists will carry the terrible message of Afxentiou and the other guerrillas, to Deryneia, in the soil of Tasos and Solomos.

Passing, on Saturday, August 8, from the occupied roadblocks of Astromeriti, Agios Dometios, Ledra Pallas and Ledra, worshiping at the sacred Tomb of Makedonitissa. Bending reverently at the house of the hero of EOKA Modestos Pantelis and honoring again the memories of Tasos and Solomos. The motorcyclists will spend the night in Deryneia, feeling the air of freedom of the soils of the two heroes and on Sunday, almost 25 years later, they will intervene in the memorial service at the church of Agios Dimitrios in Paralimni. The pandemic forces the Path to change, but the memory is not canceled.

"We giamai, olives jiai terrasies on their rotson". Motorcyclists do not submit to the flag of memory. The history of this place is a history of struggles: From Onisilos, to Kyprianos, Christodoulos Sozos and the protesters of October, the volunteers of the great war, the guerrillas of EOKA and those who resisted the Turkish lailapa, to Tasos and Solis Transmitting to all the occupied roadblocks, the message that as long as memory resists oblivion, people will fight for Freedom and Justice. Accountable only in Macheras and Pentadaktylos, Kyrenia and Famagusta. To the mountains, to our heroes, to our saints and to our poets. We are giants.

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