It is imperative to work, every minute, every moment, to overturn the finalities of the invasion, said the Minister of Transport, Communications and Works, Yannis Karousos, in his eulogy at the funeral service of the hero of 1974, Dimitris Demetriou.
He said that "we had to reach July 31, 1997, so that Clerides and Denktas could agree that the families of our missing persons have the right to be informed about the fate of their loved ones." In 2005, he continued, the first remains of the missing were located and to date 736 of the 1619 have been identified.
We bow our heads reverently, he added, before the bravery of Demetrakis Petros Demetriou, not for the second time, but for the 48th time, as many years since the day he defended his homeland, his family and all subsequent generations. From the day he watered the tree of Leftheria with his blood, ignoring death.
The first, incorrect identification, the Minister said, took place in December 2005, followed by the burial of the remains on 21 July 2007. Just as Dimitrakis' family was ending their agony, he continued, we reached October 2015, when his remains were found in a mass grave in occupied Trachona, along with 15 other missing persons.
"The second burial of our hero's remains will take place today, with the hope that the most painful consequence of the Turkish invasion will cease to exist for his loved ones," he noted. "To ensure the existence of Cypriot Hellenism on this martyred island. To live in a Cyprus free of occupation troops. Without anxieties about tomorrow, without dangers, without barbed wire," he said."
Source: CNA
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