Anastasios Souroullas

He was born in the town of Lysi¹, Famagusta district, on March 2, 1932.

He was killed by the British on August 2, 1958, in the orchards of Lysi.

Anastasios Souroullas or Tasos, as he was called, finished the primary school of Lysi and was a worker-farmer.

He became more active in EOKA after August 6, 1956, when his younger brother, Dimos, became a guerrilla, at which time Tasos took over the supply of his brother's guerrilla group and acted as one of the liaisons of the two guerrilla groups of Lysi.

After February 10, 1957, when his brother was arrested and sentenced to death along with his comrades, in a movement of theirs, during which the hero Patroklos Kokkinos fell, Tasos became even more active, taking on responsibilities in the militia groups organized by EOKA.

On August 1, 1958, the Lysi guerrillas, reinforced by fighters from the village, set up an ambush near Lysi during which three military cars full of soldiers were hit, resulting in the death of two soldiers and the injury of many gothers. The next day, the British imposed a fortnight of house arrest and began searches. During the siege, Anastasios Souroullas, Georgios Iona Georgiou and Christofis Panagides broke through the village cordon and ended up in the fields heading towards the village of Tremetousia². However, they were spotted by the British who spotted them with a helicopter, which reinforced the search.

According to the testimony of a shepherd who was watching, the Turkish sergeant of the Athienou police station, head of the auxiliary, with other Turks from the village of Arsos, ambushed them and, assisted by the British, killed them.

The autopsy found that the three young men were hit with automatic rifle bullets in the head and with a spear in the abdomen and other parts of the body.