I do not forget

Tomorrow, Sunday the 8th of March 2009, takes place in Cyprus the burial of the bones of Greek Cypriots found in a mass grave and identified through D.N.A. test. They belong to members of a single Greek Cypriot family listed as missing since the Turkish invasion of 1974.

On August 17th, 1974 the turks killed in cold blood :

JOHN and CHRISTINA MICHAEL, aged 77 and 68 respectively, their son MICHAEL, aged 42, their daughter MARGARITA LIASI, aged 48, her three daughters, HELEN, 25, CHRISTINA 23 and ILIADA, 18, and Margarita's grandson, LOUKAS, aged 2.

Loukas Kkailos Liasi, aged 2.

From the Liasi family survived George, then aged 15, Giannoula, then 27, the mother of Loukas, who were seriouly injured but survived (George with a bulet in his head, and Giannoula with 17 bullets in her body), and Panagiotis who was then serving in the National Guard.

George and Giannoula Liasi today.

Twenty one people from four families, the Liasis, George Giannakis' family, Giannakis Michael's family, and Andrea Souppouris' family, had found refuge in Souppouris' home. The Liasis, Giannakis and Michael families were related. As George recalls, some 300 Greek Cyrpiots who were trapped by the invason, were gathered in the village of Voni. The Turks put the men in the village church and the women in the village school. Then they were taken in groups and were shot, nevr to b seen again.

In the same grave there were found the bones of :

SOTIRA GEORGIOU, her dauhter MARY, aged 7, and her son JOHN, aged 9 months. Their burial took place on February 14th, 2009. On the same day were buried the bones of six members of the Souppouris family.

The funeral will take place on Sunday at the Apostolos Andreas Church in Aglandza at 12.30.

Den xehno-I do not forget.