With a simple ceremony and the established observance of two minutes of silence at 11:00 exactly in the morning, the Municipality of Sotiras paid the due tribute last Monday to the 20 million dead of World War I and to the Cypriots who gave their lives during the Second World War. World War II defending the ideals of freedom and democracy.
The event is organized every year by the Pancyprian Association of World War II Warriors at the monument to Cypriots who fell in World War II on the occasion of Remembrance Day (or Day of Armistice or Ceasefire Day) on November 11, given that on November 11 the eleventh hour, of the eleventh day, of the eleventh month ", came into force the Treaty of Kombien, the treaty of truce of the Allied forces with Germany, with which the First World War ended.
The Mayor, Mr. George Takkas, laid a wreath at the simple event held at the Monument of the Fallen and Missing in our Municipality, who stated in his statements that the participation of Cypriot volunteers in World War II is one of the golden pages of modern Cyprus. With more than twenty thousand volunteers, Cyprus is comparatively ranked as the first country in the world in voluntary participation by proportion of population. "Honoring today the day of remembrance of the victims of the two World Wars", continued Mr. Takkas, "we honor the people who gave their lives as a contribution to our country and to humanity in general".