Kostas Loizou attended primary school in Marathovounos and worked as a blacksmith in Nicosia. With the start of the match, he was one of the first to join EOKA. In his smithy he made bombs, both for his team’s attacks and for the needs of other teams. Later he joined an executive team in Nicosia and worked mainly with the heroes Stelios Mavrommatis and Stavros Stylianidis. The area in which they operated, in the center of Nicosia, was later called by the British the “mile of death“, because of the many executions of soldiers that had taken place there.

At the end of April – beginning of May 1956, after an unsuccessful attempt to execute a traitor, Kostas Loizou was forced to take refuge in the mountains of Kykkos, in the lair of Markos Drakos, in the “Troulinos” area of ​​the village of Kalopanagiotis. Since then he was wanted by the English, who had proclaimed him for 5000 pounds. After the death of Markos Drakos, and specifically from March 1958, Kostas Loizou was appointed by Digenis as the leader of a rebel group and fled to the “Avroulies” area of ​​the village of Kampos, where he built a mountain hideout.

He acted as a rebel for twenty-nine months and suffered much hardship, hardship and persecution. But he also dealt many blows against the enemy, in ambushes and battles. On the first of October 1958, during an attack by his group on the Kampou police station, a fire broke out from which he suffered severe burns. Despite the superhuman efforts of Panagiotas Pitsillidou’s fighter nurse, Kostas Loizou died after twenty-five painful days. His death was kept a secret until the end of the race, when his remains were collected and buried with honors in his village, next to his distant cousin Michael Georgallas.