We should combat to discover a sustainable and workable answer, which can free our nation from occupying troops, invasive rights and dependencies on third nations and guarantee a free homeland, she says, in a message forward of the anniversary of the 1 April 1955, the Minister of Schooling, Sports activities and Youth, Athina Michailidou.
“On this route, we should additional strengthen and improve the training of our kids and younger individuals, work collectively in order that our Schooling continues to protect the ideas and values of freedom and the battle for the widespread good, regulation and progress, our language and tradition. That is our highest obligation in the direction of the sacrifice of Auxentios, Pallikaridis, Karaolis, Matsis, Lena and so many different abnormal individuals of our nation”, he provides.
He states, on the identical time, that “for one more yr we honor with satisfaction the anniversary of April 1, 1955. We honor the anniversary of the start of a singular battle, which, being probably the most decisive act of our individuals to acquire their freedom, shined and stamped as landmark within the trendy historical past of our nation”.
Exhausting, continued the Minister of Well being, beforehand all peaceable efforts, fighters and folks, responded to the EOKA's name for armed insurrection, with the goal of satisfying their nationwide claims.
“Males, girls, younger males, girls and youngsters confronted historical past once more. Remaining dedicated to the ideas and values of Freedom, they displayed unparalleled patriotism, incomparable same-mindedness and insurmountable heroism within the face of overwhelming superiority, numerical superiority and merciless tortures of British colonialism. Within the detention facilities, within the focus camps and on the gallows of the conquerors, they raised their want for Freedom” he provides.
They went up, notes Ms. Michailidou, as symbols of their indomitable soul and their indomitable spirit, the battles, the sacrifices and the Imprisoned Reminiscences, recording an epic that was a supply of braveness and inspiration for different struggling peoples.
“An epic that ended colonialism in our nation and laid the foundations for the creation of the Republic of Cyprus, which, as a treasured legacy of the battle and sacrifice of our heroes in the course of the interval 1955-59, we’re right now referred to as upon to guard and protect . With the sympathy and unity of our individuals throughout that legendary interval as our beacon, we should, precisely fifty years after the Turkish invasion, perform our personal battle for the prevalence of peace and justice in our nation”, he concludes.
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