Andreas Vlamis
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He was born in the village of Vouni1, Limassol province, in 1940.
He was killed on November 20, 1956 in Limassol by a special gendarme, from whom he tried to wrest the weapon.
Andreas Vlamis finished the primary school of his village and was attending Laniteo High School when he was killed.
He was organized in the student groups of EOKA, from which he then moved to the strike groups.
“From a young age,” testifies his mother, “when he was playing, he would gird on fake weapons and fight to expel the English from Cyprus. Later, when he went to high school, he was one of the first to join EOKA, trying to achieve his goal. The two of us were very connected because he lost his father as an infant. He told me all his thoughts and often said:”
“ You don’t know, mother, what homeland means, you can’t know ”
“At 4:45 p.m. today, November 20, 1956, a special gendarme on duty,” said the announcement of his death, “was attacked by a 16-year-old Greek Cypriot youth, who grabbed him by the neck and tried to steal his revolver. As they followed her again, the gendarme pulled out his revolver and shot the neon, who died.”
At his funeral, English soldiers tried to prevent the patriotic displays of the crowd, as well as his classmates and teachers. To be able to deal with them, they asked for reinforcements. However, some of his friends, children of EOKA, blew up with bombs the bridge where they were going to cross and reinforcements could not arrive.
Information about the hero: www.vouni.org/en/tour/heroes-monument
