I won’t forget! Only Golden Dawn Stands with the Relatives of the Missing Persons of Cyprus

On Friday the 3^rd of November 2017 the Pan Hellenic Council for Missing Persons held a lecture on the theme “Missing Persons from 1974, Rights of the Relatives” in the amphitheatre of the Foreign Ministry. Golden Dawn participated via its Parliamentary Leader Christos Pappas.

There was a deafening silence from the government and all the rest of the political parties who were absent. The Foreign Ministry thinks it can carry out its responsibilities to the missing persons and their families by making the amphitheatre available and sending an employee to observe proceedings without even addressing the meeting. The same attitude was displayed by the Ministry of Defence who sent two Military Officers but no one from the political leadership. There was also a noticeable absence of the parliamentarian members from the Council for Foreign Affairs and Defence.

It seems that in order to honour the Greek Missing Persons, the unburied fallen and to claim the self - explanatory like burying the fallen and acknowledging where and how they were killed (or executed) from the barbarian Turkish invaders, you have to be Golden Dawn. The ties that bind the political parties of the so – called “constitutional” or “democratic” spectrum are obviously stronger than historical responsibility. The parties of the political system of every colour, deliberately and provocatively, have ignored for 43 years now the Ethnic National but also Ethical and Humane case of the Missing Persons.

That any progress has been made regarding the search for the Missing Persons, is due exclusively to the actions and persistence of the relatives, whom Christos Pappas described in his greeting as participants in a modern tragedy, that of Cyprus of 1974 where their role is like the tragedy of Sophocles, Antigone. She condemned the political leadership at the time, as our current leadership also deserves to be, not only for their absence from the lecture but for their longstanding absence and their inappropriate behaviour towards the relatives but also towards the Heroes of 1974, whose sacrifice is regarded as not occurring during a state of war, just as the official Greek state doesn’t recognise as a war experience the battles of Cyprus in July and August of 1974. The absence of political leadership and the behaviour of the servile Greekish state didn’t go unrecognised and were condemned by the co-ordinator of the lecture, the reputable journalist Mr Lazaropoulos.

During the lecture we heard speeches from the President of the Committee Mrs Kalbourtzi, daughter of the fallen hero Lieutenant Colonel Stylianos Kalbourtzi Commander of the 181 Army Ground Artillery, other relatives and the legally detailed explanations from the lawyers Achillies Dimitriadis and Natasha Iakovou. Brother in Arms Christos Pappas, emphasised to the audience the fighting attitude of Golden Dawn on our National issues and of course the presence of our Movement on the side of the relatives of the missing and our support of their claims and the International condemnation of Turkey for its criminal actions, however many years may pass. He noted that since the countries of Greece and Cyprus are indifferent and aren’t interested in taking on the National issue of the Missing persons and the rights of the relatives, it is the fateful burden of to the individual families and relatives, whom he encouraged to be united, patient and strong, quoting the ancient saying “Strength in Unity”. Finally he stressed to the audience that justice for each family won’t come with receiving the case with the bones of their relative, but in reality it will come only after these two states Greece and Cyprus, which are one single Ethnic Nation achieve unity in one State. Then Hellenism will embrace its greatness and the souls of the Missing Persons will have justice.