The President of the Greek People's Party, Marinos Sizopoulos said that the homeland is not for sale and we will continue the struggle until its liberation.
Speaking at the religious memorial service of EOKA hero Haralambos Mouskou at the Church of Constantine and Helen in Nicosia, Mr. Sizopoulos said that based on the messages emitted by the sacrifices of the heroes of EOKA in 1963-64 and 1974, it is necessary to follow a new assertive strategy by repositioning the Cyprus issue on its proper basis as an issue of invasion and occupation, by denouncing Turkey on the international and regional stage, by exploiting the enhanced geostrategic importance of our homeland and by forging alliances with countries whose interests are identical to ours.
United and determined, far from defeatism and fatalism, inspired by the sacrifice of our heroes, we can break the current deadlocks and make Turkey's expansionist goals unattainable, he stressed.
He said that under conditions of national oppression, strangulation of democratic and human rights, total lack of popular participation in the future of the homeland, economic hardship and with the Greek flag imprisoned, the explosion of April 1, 1955 was inevitable.
Disregarding the balance of power, a handful of visionaries, without training and infrastructure, with rudimentary weaponry, confronted a powerful empire, the British, with the EOKA epoch ranking in the category of excesses, he said.
A small people, he said, opposed a mighty empire with mighty military forces and mere children of the people humiliated death, either by climbing the gallows steps singing the National Anthem or fighting on the battlefield with superior military forces. Happy, he said, those who by their death abolish it and pass into immortality and those who with their honest blood indelibly write history.
Paying tribute to the fighter of freedom and the throwing off of the British colonial yoke Charalambos Mousko, the President of the Hellenic People's Party noted, is a reflection of the fighting spirit of a heroic generation, steeling the faith and strengthening our conviction to remain today pioneers and protagonists in facing the new dangers that lurk for our people. To fight for the freedom of our homeland, this time from the Turkish occupation.
Charalambos Mouskos wrote his own heroic history, said the President of the EOKA, adding that EOKA lost a brave man, its first guerrilla. His death inflamed the passion, patriotism and the people's spirit to continue the struggle and avenge his loss.
Charalambos Mouskos was followed by Dragon, Afxentiou, Matsis and so many others. Mersinaki, Machairas, Dikomo, Liopetri became places of national pilgrimage, he said.
Although some question the rightness of this heroic struggle, historical facts record that a small people opposed a powerful empire.
Today, said Mr. Sizopoulos, we are facing a Cyprus divided by the Turkish army, and a Turkish policy that aims at a complete demographic change and the incorporation of the whole of Cyprus into Turkish territory, within the framework of the "Reconquest of Cyprus" plan.
The TCs are also victims of Turkish expansionism. It is naive to believe that we will solve the Cyprus problem by making concessions to the T/Cs and even concessions which endanger our physical, national and religious survival, he said.
Source: CNA
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