The last hero Savvas Rotsides
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The last hero Savvas Rotsides
The last hero Savvas Rotsides
On November 25, 1958, Rotsides went to a spring with his competitor Rogeros Shipillis, to get water at their hideout, in the "Skouri" area of Agros. There they fell into an ambush by the English, who violated the existing truce. Rotsides was killed and his competitor managed to escape with serious injuries. Rotsides is the last rebel dead during the Struggle.
His parents dressed him in a wedding suit at the Kyperounta Sanatorium, from where they received him after his death and, receiving into their house the multitude of people who had gathered from all over Cyprus to bid him farewell, they ordered the bells to ring incessantly.