In the presence of officials and a crowd of people, the 21st memorial service of the heroic martyrs Tassos Isaac and Solomos Solomos was held today in the church of Agios Dimitrios, in Paralimni.
The memorial service was held in the presence of the Metropolitan of Constantia - Famagusta Vassilios, in the presence of, among others, the Deputy Minister under the President Vassilis Palmas, the President of DIKO Nikolas Papadopoulos, the President of the Solidarity Movement Elenias Theonis F. of the Mayor of Paralimni, Theodoros Pyrillis, other state and military officials.
The complaint of Solomos Solomos's father
In a speech, Solomos Solomos's father, Spyros, demanded "the obvious" as he said, that is, "activation of the arrest warrants for the murderers to be brought to justice".
He added that "the well-known artist Notis Sfakianakis agreed with the late Mayor of occupied Famagusta Andreas Pougiouros, erected a monument to Solomos to be placed in front of the Cultural Center of occupied Famagusta in Deryneia. However, he continued, "the artist can not bring the monument to Cyprus and be placed in the Cultural Center and asked for the intervention of the President of the Republic to end this torturous wait" and to make the arrival on the island of the monument possible.
This was followed by a trisagion at the graves of the dead in the Paralimni cemetery and the laying of wreaths.
The motorcyclists of the "Isaac and Solomos Initiative" arrived at the Paralimni cemetery, who, accompanied by the mother, daughter and sister of Tassos Isaac, made a trek along the dead zone from Friday.
Tassos Isaac's motorcycle after 21 years again at the Deryneia roadblock
Tassos Isaac's motorcycle was also transported to the Paralimni cemetery, with which, as Andreas Pettermeridis of the "Isaac-Solomou Memorial Initiative" stated, "he had gone to the Deryneia roadblock 21 years ago, but was unable to leave. . "Tassos Isaac's motorcycle is a beacon for us, it is a symbol of struggle and effort for the final vindication of Cyprus", he said.
He added that "21 years after the sacrifice of the two heroes, their killers have not been convicted and the motorcyclists demand from the State to take actions, as we demanded last year from the President of the Republic, to bring justice and convict their killers as they exist their arrest warrants. "We demand the immediate and urgent conviction of the two murderers," he said.
"Instead of monuments, open roadblocks"
Referring to the roadblock of Deryneia, Mr. Pettemeridis said that "instead of there are monuments to honor the two heroes, there will now be a roadblock, which is a shame for us. Twenty years later, there is not a single monument in this area and the intention of the Isaac-Solomou Memorial Initiative is to make this monument ".
He added that "motorcyclists are claiming their simple and basic rights, freedom of movement. Last year, when we crossed the whole of Berlin and ended up in Cyprus, we did not show any identity, while in our own place, we are obliged to show our identity. "This is a shame for us and we will try as hard as we can to claim the rights of this place," he said.
Moreover, in his statements, Alekos Michailidis of the "Isaac and Solomou Memorial Initiative" said that "today we gathered at the Paralimni cemetery to honor the sacrifice of the two heroes. It must be made clear that this place is occupied and that the movement and freedom of people, either with or without the sound of motorcycles, must be won. "
After the trisagion at the tombs of the two heroes, about one thousand one hundred motorcyclists from all the cities of Cyprus went to the roadblock of Deryneia, where they looked from afar at the place of sacrifice of Tassos Isaac and Solomos Solomos.
A delegation consisting of the daughter and mother of Tassos Isaac and the sister of Solomos Solomos, accompanied by a representative of the United Nations, entered a few meters inside the dead zone in Deryneia, where they laid wreaths.
An artistic program followed and the National Anthem was sung. The motorcyclists then, under the discreet presence of the MAAD police and other groups of the police force, disbanded without any problems.
Nicholas: Remember the sacrifice of Isaac and Solomon
We must remember the sacrifice of Tassos Isaac and Solomos Solomos, the Turkish atrocity and barbarism that led to their assassination and draw lessons from Turkish behavior and expansionism, said today the President of DIKO and candidate for the presidency of Democracy.
In his speech at the memorial of the heroic martyrs Tassos Isaac and Solomos Solomos in the church of Agios Dimitrios in Paralimni, Mr. Papadopoulos said that "today we did not come to mourn their unjust loss, we came to honor their honest, sacred memory. "With their sacrifice and martyrdom, Isaac and Solomou awakened drowsy consciences when they brought to the surface the unbridled aggressive character and incurable barbarism of the Turkish mob, which was broadcast live or televised around the world," he said. that "awakened, but also ours - in Cyprus and Greece - overworked consciences".
The memory of the sacrifice of the two heroic martyrs of Paralimni "let it be, for leadership and people, an invitation for honor and responsibility and a call for a struggle for freedom. "Just as they never accepted the occupation and ran to water the tree of resistance with their blood, so we, the leadership and the people, should never accept it, no matter how many years pass, no matter how many difficulties we encounter," he said. Mr. Papadopoulos.
If, he continued, "in the name of a precarious solution, we give in to the brutal violence and blatant blackmail of Turkey, we will not be worthy of our ancestors, we will not be worthy of our dead and we will not be worthy of the unborn generations to come." "If we allow this to happen, the Hellenism of Cyprus is over," he said, noting that "we must believe in the law of our people, in the defense of freedom, in the salvation of our homeland and in the final justice."
Moreover, in statements after the trisagion that was performed at the tomb of the heroes in Paralimni cemetery, Mr. Papadopoulos said that "such days we must remember not only the sacrifice of the two heroic martyrs of Paralimni but also the Turkish brutality and barbarism that led to their and to learn lessons from the Turkish behavior and expansionism but also animation from the sacrifices of our heroes ".
Source: SotiraNews / KYPE