SALUTE TO HELLENIC REVOLUTION
For Immediate Release: March 25, 2008
 
Contact: Nikolaos Taneris, New York, Tel. 1-917-699-9935

NEW YORK--The Press Office of The Cyprus Action Network of America (CANA) in solidarity with the men and women of The Hellenic League of America (HLA) today salutes the martyrs, heroes and sacrifices of the Hellenic Revolution that is marked on March 25th every year, in memory of the struggle that began on March 17th-March 25th in 1821. Hellas began a struggle to liberate our beleaguered people from slavery. The very existence of the Hellenic Republic is living testament that few can be victorious against many, and that the call for freedom can prevail against tyranny.

After centuries of prejudice, persecution, mass rapes and mass murder perpetrated by the officials and military occupiers of the Ottoman Turkish empire --predecessor to the genocidal Republic of Turkey, -- after many failed Hellenic rebellions for freedom that ended in more massacres and slavery for our people, ultimately, the liberation struggle of 1821, became a Hellenic Revolution, riding our homeland of the foreign oppressors.

On this solemn day we also remember the many who suffer and remain enslaved, our brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers, our grandparents who were slaughtered ,and forced out of their homes and farmlands in Cyprus  by the criminal Turkish government, one of the most repressive, human-rights-abusing regimes in the world today,

We remember that Cyprus remains enslaved, we remember the young protestors -- Anastasios (Tassos) Isaac and Solomos Solomou,who were murdered before the eyes of the world in 1996 in Dheryneia, by Turkish officials who walk the streets of Turkey, who walk our occupied lands today, and fly their red flag, dripping with the blood of our brutalized people, over our villages, towns, farms and mountains and fields, over our homeland, every single day.

Today, we salute the dreams of those men and women who gave everything, took nothing and never begged for anything.

In memory of the few who joined the Hellenic Revolution at its very beginnings.

Victory or Death!

Please view and distribute our Hellenic League of America HLA promo video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YjkDNjw3Qc

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