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Release Date: December 12, 2012
Statement by the Spokesperson of the C.C. of AKEL Georgios Loucaides
Press Office of the C.C. of AKEL, 12th December 2012, Nicosia
AKEL welcomes the decision by the Council of Ministers restoring the memory of the militants of the Left who were murdered during the period 1956-58 falsely accused of treason. Another election pledge of Demetris Christofias is being fulfilled.
At last, after half a century, the state restores the moral order and the historical truth. The decades-long struggles of the People's Movement of the Left and of the relatives of the murdered Left militants are vindicated. The murdered militants of the Left did not lose their lives because they were supposedly traitors, but fell victims of the intolerance of Grivas who with their murders aimed to completely weaken AKEL and provoke a civil war.
AKEL wants to believe that the days of intolerance and fanaticism leading to acts of terror and the murder of innocent people are gone forever. The duty of all is to uphold democracy, democratic institutions and political culture and not allow the revival of similar phenomena. AKEL will always stand as a bulwark to any attempts to revive bigotry and fanaticism and will continue to work for unity and consensus.
AKEL addresses a greeting of honour to the relatives of the unjustly lost militants of the Left, who for decades have suffered indignities and humiliations but always defended their honour and memory. We congratulate the relatives of the murdered and their Association for the final vindication of their struggles. We regret that many family members and other relatives died without witnessing this vindication.
Finally, AKEL expresses its unreserved honour and respect to those honest patriots, regardless of ideological outlook, who fought and many of them sacrificing their lives in the anti-colonial struggle of the Cypriot people.
http://www.akel.org.cy/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=8518&tt=graphic&lang=l3
AKEL on the decision of the Council of Ministers to restore the memory of the militants of the Left in the period 1956-1958
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Statement by the Spokesperson of the C.C. of AKEL Georgios Loucaides
Press Office of the C.C. of AKEL, 12th December 2012, Nicosia
AKEL welcomes the decision by the Council of Ministers restoring the memory of the militants of the Left who were murdered during the period 1956-58 falsely accused of treason. Another election pledge of Demetris Christofias is being fulfilled.
At last, after half a century, the state restores the moral order and the historical truth. The decades-long struggles of the People's Movement of the Left and of the relatives of the murdered Left militants are vindicated. The murdered militants of the Left did not lose their lives because they were supposedly traitors, but fell victims of the intolerance of Grivas who with their murders aimed to completely weaken AKEL and provoke a civil war.
AKEL wants to believe that the days of intolerance and fanaticism leading to acts of terror and the murder of innocent people are gone forever. The duty of all is to uphold democracy, democratic institutions and political culture and not allow the revival of similar phenomena. AKEL will always stand as a bulwark to any attempts to revive bigotry and fanaticism and will continue to work for unity and consensus.
AKEL addresses a greeting of honour to the relatives of the unjustly lost militants of the Left, who for decades have suffered indignities and humiliations but always defended their honour and memory. We congratulate the relatives of the murdered and their Association for the final vindication of their struggles. We regret that many family members and other relatives died without witnessing this vindication.
Finally, AKEL expresses its unreserved honour and respect to those honest patriots, regardless of ideological outlook, who fought and many of them sacrificing their lives in the anti-colonial struggle of the Cypriot people.
