That is one other true story of two inseparable associates, 20-22 years previous, fellow troopers within the betrayed Cypriot Thermopylae of 1974 and for many years on the record of the lacking, who confirmed with their angle to life the pure patriotism and the primal ancestral saying about friendship: “I imagine my pal. a trustworthy pal in peril.”
As within the case of inseparable associates, Charalambos A. Kaspari from the Home of Marathasas and Kostakis Asiikalis from Kaimakli, who “bonded” from the start of their army service and stayed collectively preventing the Turkish invasion forces in July 1974, and after surviving, they adopted collectively a journey filled with twists and turns, refusing to surrender, regardless of obvious betrayal and abandonment. Collectively they continued to combat in Pentadaktylos and so collectively they have been listed as lacking till they have been discovered many years later aspect by aspect in a mass grave within the Turkish Cypriot village of Tziaos, with the indicators of their chilly execution.
In the previous few weeks we stated goodbye, fifty years late since 1974, to 2 different worthy of the religion and the nation, the reserve soldier Charalambos Sergios Prodromos and the additionally soldier of the identical Battalion Nikos Vlachos. The 2 have been inseparable associates within the at the moment occupied Agios Ambrosios of Kyrenia, who rushed to the decision of the homeland for common mobilization in opposition to Attila in 1974, whereas they have been 20-22 years previous. Charalambos, affectionately generally known as Lampis, was a 22-year-old reservist and, along with Nikos Vlachos, took half within the repulse of Attila initially in July 1974. Between Phases A and B of the Turkish invasion, they rejected all urges to depart the Order due to the of obvious betrayal by the Juntic commander. Within the second part of the invasion, after the collapse of the entrance in Mia Milia, Charalambos was final seen injured transferring on an escape route at all times together with his loyal pal Nikos Vlachos, who, as others testify, declared that he would by no means go away the injured his pal. Many years later, the bones of each have been present in a mass grave in a riverbed with indicators of execution.
There have been many such tales however they have been misplaced beneath the tunnel of shameful betrayal and abandonment. Let this be a memorial for such genuine individuals and heroes who confirmed with their lives the age-old saying about patriotism and pure friendship till the top. From the paradise of their village, the 2 younger males discovered themselves within the trenches preventing the overwhelmingly superior Turkish invasion forces in 1974, and after surviving with one injured, they remained collectively till the top, trustworthy to their everlasting friendship. Collectively within the battles, collectively they skilled betrayal, collectively within the escape, collectively they have been executed, collectively within the record of the lacking and eventually collectively, subsequent to one another on the Tomb of the Makedonitissa, confirming the ancestral educating: “A pal a pal in ache and hazard he's lacking.”
Our heroes are individuals who beloved the great thing about life a lot that they’d defend it for all of us till the top, however generally forgotten by the noise of on a regular basis life. Within the photograph, the graves of the 2 inseparable associates and now heroes, aspect by aspect within the Tomb.
Kostas Mavridis, MEP (DIKO – S&D), President of the Political Committee for the Mediterranean
