Kyriakos Kolokasis

He was born in the village of Geri¹, Nicosia province, on February 4, 1934.

He fell fighting at the Nicosia General Hospital² on August 31, 1956.

Kyriakos Kolokasis finished primary school in Geri and was a farmer. He was a member of the Committee of the Agricultural Local Union of PEK Geri and a leading member of the nationalist associations of his village.

With the start of the EOKA competition, he joined the "Geraki" team of Geri, which cooperated with the executive teams of Nicosia. He maintained a hideout in which he hid insurgents and stored weapons and ammunition, which he distributed to groups in the area. His action also extended to bombings as well as attempts to free convicts.

In March of 1956, together with his group, Geri, hit with oil bombs the warehouses of the English army in Athalassa³, causing enormous damage.

On August 15, 1956, Kolokasis undertook with his team and in cooperation with the Nicosia teams, the release of the death row inmates Michael Koutsoftas and Paraskevas Choiropoulis. Instead, however, they released two other convicts.

On August 31, 1956, Kyriakos Kolokasis, Ionas Nikolaou, Spyros Kyriakou and Nikos Samson undertook the release of Polykarpos Giorkatzis from the General Hospital of Nicosia, where he had been taken for a radiological examination. During the attack, the English Sergeant Demon, the executioner who executed the first executed in the Central Prisons, Michalakis Karaolis and Andreas Dimitriou, was killed. During the attack, Giorkatzis was freed. However, Kyriakos Kolokasis and his cousin Ionas Nikolaou fell fighting. The caretaker of the hospital, Koulis Kyriakidis, who happened to be there, was also killed and Spyros Kyriakou, a member of the team that ventured into the operation, was wounded.