Next Friday 16.12.2022, at 10.00 am, the Commissioner of the Presidency will unveil the bust of the youngest hero of EOKA, Dimitrakis Dimitriadis. The ceremony will take place at the hero's grave located at the cemetery of St. George of Kontos in Larnaca, in the presence of the hero's family members. The service will be preceded by His Eminence Metropolitan Nektarios of Kition.
Little Dimitrakis Dimitriadis was reportedly murdered by an English soldier in the area of the church of Agios Lazaros on March 14, 1956 at the age of seven during a demonstration against the colonial government's decision to exile Arch. Makarios and three other militants. He was a Grade 2 student at Kalogera Primary School.
It may be recalled that his family had submitted a request to the Commissioner of the Presidency for the location, exhumation and identification of Dimitrakis' remains, which they did not know where they were buried. Following investigations conducted by the Office of the Presidential Commissioner, the remains of Dimitrakis were located in a mass burial site at the St. George of Kontos Cemetery. Anthropological and genetic tests followed which led to the identification of his remains. The funeral of the remains was held on March 12, 2022, from the Holy Church of St. Lazarus and their burial at the cemetery of St. George of Kontos in an individual grave provided, honorary, by the Metropolis of Kition.
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