Alekos Konstantinou

He was born in Kakopetria¹, Nicosia district, on October 6, 1936 and lived in Famagusta².

He was killed in the village of Kourdali³, Nicosia district, by a bomb explosion, on June 20, 1958.

Alekos Konstantinou attended a primary school in Famagusta, the Greek High School of Famagusta⁴ and the Commercial High School of Famagusta until the fifth grade. At the same time, he attended English language courses at an institute, excelled in the exams and managed to be recruited into the British army, securing a very good position. He was an only child and had an excessive love for his mother. His father had abandoned them when Alekos was an infant.

With the beginning of the struggle, he joined a group of the Famagusta executive. The group's meetings were held in his house and there, with the help of his mother, his group also hid its weapons. Due to his position in the army, Alekos kept company with English soldiers, befriended them at his house and thus did not arouse suspicion that he was a member of EOKA.

On April 14, 1958, together with a fellow fighter, he had the courage to appear before the cruel English interrogator Diar and shoot him to death, near the Heraion cinema. Diar mercilessly tortured the EOKA fighters and, after repeated attempts against him, he claimed that no one could stand in front of him and shoot him. They had set up a barracks for him next to the Heraion. Diar's companions, two soldiers of the military police, pursued the two fighters, who managed to escape by entering the Heraion. They then fled to the guerrillas, because Diar managed to give a description of them before he died.

On June 20, 1958, Alekos Konstantinou accompanied Panagiotis Georgiadis to Kourdali, where, together with Costas Anaxagorou, Andreas Patsalidis and Panagiotis Georgiadis, he was killed by a mine explosion, which they intended for an ambush against the British.