Panagiotis Georgiadis
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Born in the village of Livadia1, Nicosia province, on December 15, 1929.
Killed on June 20, 1958, in the village of Kourdali2, by a bomb explosion.
Panagiotis Georgiadis finished the Livadia primary school and worked as an employee in Nicosia, in a private company.
The member of OHEN, from where he joined the Struggle in 1954.
With the beginning of the Struggle he served as Digenis' liaison with Ethnarch Makarios under the pseudonym Ikaros. He wanted, together with his fellow fighter, an assistant responsible for the storage and distribution of weapons in the Nicosia area. He transported and hid wanted persons, working closely with his brothers, who had a hideout in their house in Livadia, Pitsilia, with the Nicosia sector chiefs and especially with Polykarpos Giorkatzis, whom he had trafficked many times.
In October 1956, he was wanted by the British and fled to the mountains as a guerrilla. He joined the group of Stylianos Lenas, who was in charge of the southern part of the Grigoris Afxentiou sector in Pitsilia. He had particular responsibility for the manufacture of grenades and mines in the villages of Kato and Pano Amiantos, where Stylianos Lenas had moved his workshops and developed a multifaceted action. The attacks of their group were so frequent that Digenis advised them to thin them out.
After the arrest of Stylianos Lenas and the death of Dimitrakis Christodoulou, on 17 February 1957, Panagiotis Georgiadis fled to Limassol with Evagoras Papachristoforou. From Limassol he returned to his village in mid-November 1957 and devoted himself to the reorganization of the area, which had suffered a heavy blow due to the large number of arrests.
On 20 June 1958, while Panagiotis was teaching his fellow activists how to handle a high-powered mine at the house of Andreas Patsalidis, in Kourdali, the mine exploded and dismembered him along with Andreas Patsalidis, Alekos Konstantinou and Costas Anaxagorou.
