The liberation struggle of EOKA 1955-59 and the Chloraka coast

Dhighenis was now on Cypriot soil. The torch of free- dom that was first lit in Athens had arrived on the Chloraka coast. Preparations for the struggle now con- tinued at a more rapid pace. At Dhigenis’s orders new teams of freedom fighters were set up in Nicosia and elsewhere and the arms that had been stored in Chloraka were distributed throughout Cyprus. The "Saint George" brought a new shipment of arms to "Rodafinia" on the Chloraka coast on 25 January 1955. However, it was not only the Chloraka EOKA men who were waiting for the boat. The British warship "Comet" lay in wait at sea in the darkness of night and police were stationed on shore. The British arrested both the fighters who had spent so many nights waiting to receive the shipment and the boat with its crew. These are the events that we are reminded of by the Chloraka coast. Events that formed the beginning and laid the foundations for the EOKA struggle. THE CYPRUS LIBERATION STRUGGLE