With a 43-year delay, the heroic remains of the previously missing Yasumi Markos Kile returned to his homeland.
The fate of Yasoumis Kile of the 173rd Anti-tank Artillery has been strained since August 14, 1974, when he fell fighting in the area of Mia Milia, leaving his then four-month-old wife.
Kille's bones were found and identified by DNA.
Shocked, his son and his family met this morning at the Church of the Archangel Michael in Frenaros to say goodbye to another worthy child of the homeland.
AKEL MP Stefanos Stefanou and the nephew of the hero, former Mayor of Frenaros, Nikos Kourris addressed a funeral speech.
The Government was represented by the Governor of Famagusta, George Chrysafinis.
Speech by the Press Spokesman and AKEL MP, Stefanos Stefanos, at the funeral of the bones of the hero Yasoumi Kile
Yasoumis Kile returns to his native land after more than 43 years. He left Frenaros on July 20, 1974 to enlist in his unit, when the coup leaders belatedly called in to counter Attila's invasion. He left in July 1974 and was too late to return. And unfortunately he returned dead in a small coffin in which his bones are.
Yasoumis Kile returns to Frenaros hero! Yasoumis is a hero and he deserves every honor and praise!
He is a hero, because he gave his life defending the territorial integrity of the Republic of Cyprus from Turkey, even though he knew that the betrayal of the fascist coup left the country un fortified and enslaved to the inhuman dispositions of the invader.
He is a hero, because he did not hesitate to answer the call of duty. He responded even though he knew that others, who during the coup were playing "super-patriots" and circling neighborhoods in towns and villages with Kalashnikovs in their hands, instead of going to the front, hid in the rear and some were still making arrests.
Yasoumis is a hero, because while he had a numerically superior enemy in front of him, he remained on the ramparts to save what could be saved, after the juntas and EOKavitatzides opened the back door to set the crescent of shame on the Pentadactylus. .
Yasoumis Kile is a hero! Yasoumis, however, like all the young people of his generation who were the first to suffer the catastrophic consequences of betrayal by sacrificing their lives in defense of Kyrenia, Morphou, Famagusta, Pentadaktylos, would have preferred to have the opportunity to live peacefully to set up their home, to build their family, to live their joys and sorrows together with their brothers, relatives and friends.
Leaving for the war that damn morning of July 20, Yasoumis left behind his fiancée Anastasia. Their wedding was scheduled for September 1974, but unfortunately the tragic events prevented them. That never happened.
Yasoumis left for the war returning forty-three years later, without having time to meet his son, who was born in January 1975 and bears his name.
Yasoumis was declared missing on August 14. As of August 8, he had enlisted with his unit, the 173rd Anti-Tank Artillery Squadron, in the area of Mia Milia Koutsoventi. There were deadly battles in the second round of the invasion, the line of defense of the National Guard broke and the invaders marched undisturbed to Famagusta, which they captured, after the coup leaders had abandoned it.
Yasoumis's parents and eleven siblings, when they found out that he was missing, began a desperate and martyrdom search to find out what happened to the child and the brother. The information is scarce and contradictory, but to no avail. Yasoumi's parents passed away with bitterness and frustration without knowing what their child's fate was. His parents are not with us today, to welcome their child, to bury him and to leave the tear and the flowers of their love in his grave.
Compatriots, compatriots,
The funeral of Yasoumi, like the funerals of all our missing lads, is a reminder of the debt we owe to the state and society to them.
First of all, they remind us of the duty to continue the struggle and the effort to determine the fate of each of our missing. The drama of the missing has a deeply humanitarian content. No political game of expediency can be played on this drama, nor can it be exploited. The pain of anticipation for relatives is excruciating and all those involved have an obligation to contribute to solving the problem of our missing. Turkey has a decisive role to play in this.
Efforts to determine the fate of the missing remain difficult, despite steps taken to promote the exhumation and identification program. In order for this effort to proceed decisively, Turkey needs to open its archives, provide all the necessary information and, without hesitation, cooperate in providing all the information.
The second debt we owe to the lads who sacrificed for the homeland is to defend the historical truth. It is an insult to the memory of our lads to falsify history. It is an insult to the memory of our lads even today to decide to erect monuments to the leader of the illegality of EOKA B ', the organization that undermined and fought the rule of law, that killed democratic citizens, that sought the extermination of Makarios, the organization that finances by the SIA and the Athens junta to overthrow the legitimate state.
In other countries, traitors are mounted on the wall. In Cyprus, with the wounds of the occupation and the refugees open and fading, in Cyprus where we are still burying the dead of 1974, some people decide to erect monuments to betrayal and illegality. Shame and shame!
It is a brutal falsification of history, to highlight the illegal and barbaric nature of the Turkish invasion and at the same time to prescribe the crimes and the disastrous results of the coup d'etat of the Athens junta and EOKA II. The Turkish invasion did not fall out of nowhere. Attila was not brought by the sea of Kyrenia. EOKA II and the junta brought him.
Coup and invasion are the two sides of the NATO conspiracy to divide Cyprus. The protagonists of the coup, in Cyprus and Greece, can not be credited with ignorance of the consequences that the coup would have. They can not be credited with foolishness. It was known that the coup would bring Turkey to Cyprus. That is why Makarios and the progressive, democratic forces warned.
Unfortunately, the few destroyed the place and wreaked havoc on everyone. We must never forget that. We must not forget that the catastrophe was brought about by the big words. Harmful illusions and destructive willpower. People who are not properly exemplified by their history, relive it in an even more painful way. And we do not have such luxury in Cyprus!
The third debt we owe to our heroes is to shake off the Turkish occupation and reunite our place and people, Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots. This is the first, decisive task of all. Turkey is taking advantage of the passage of time to consolidate the de facto division, which has always been its strategic goal. We must not compromise, we have no right to compromise with the occupation! Division is a source of danger for our people. And we have no right to leave such a dangerous legacy to our children and grandchildren.
Regardless of the frustration caused by the failure of the Crans Montana Conference, regardless of the anger over Turkey's unacceptable behavior, we must continue to work for a solution. For the resumption of negotiations from the point where they were interrupted. This is the position of the United Nations, and this is what we must pursue.
In the negotiations, we must preserve the acquis that was created and, remaining consistent in the principles of the Cyprus solution, try to complete them. Our people have been puffed up by the big words that helped us to get here. It takes wisdom and consistency. It takes faith that no matter the difficulties we can do it.
This is how we will justify our people.
Thus we will justify the sacrifices of our heroes.
Thus we will justify the sacrifice of Yasoumis and we will give a smile of satisfaction to his brothers and relatives that his sacrifice was not lost. That it bore sweet fruit for our Cyprus and for the next generations.
We owe this debt and we will continue to fight for its fulfillment.
Let the soil that will cover you Yasoumi be light.
May your memory be eternal.
Honor and glory to your sacrifice.
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