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HISTORY / POLITICS
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14 Χ 21 εκ. |
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239 σελίδες |
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ISBN:
9789963673384 |
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Publisher:
POWER PUBLISHING |
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€ 14.00
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During the difficult years of the EOKA liberation struggle, the British came up with a number of methods in order to break the morale of the people of Cyprus. They believed that torture, exile and other oppressive measures would make the freedom fighters and their patriot parents submit to their rule.
When asked why the young freedom fighters were sentenced to death, Field Marshall Harding said that his aim was not to intimidate the EOKA men themselves, but their mothers, so that they would try to prevent them from joining the fight. But here, too, we failed, admitted the former Governor, for their mothers gave them their blessing when they joined up and welcomed them as heroes when they were killed: ’Our country is more than worth your sacrifice’.
One of the measures of intimidation the British took was the policy of deporting Cypriot political prisoners to prisons in Britain. They must have regretted it, eventually, for in their own prisons the Cypriots managed to convince the other prisoners and even the |
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