The Concentration Camps

with primitive means and occupying them- selves with joinery and drew spiritual strength by studying the Scriptures. In the Camps there was an invisible authority regulating the freedom fighters’ action. This was a three-member secret council set up by EOKA leader Dhigenis. This council executed the organisation’s orders, approved or rejected escape plans, decided on uprisings, mass protests and other action undertaken by the prisoners. Protest action included hunger strikes, such as the three-day strike during Easter Week of 1958 and the Maundy Thursday uprising, in which in the course of five minutes, the organised politi- cal prisoners set fire to the Kokkinotrimithia Schoolboy freedom fighters at the Kokkinotrimithia Concentration Camp