Imprisoned Graves

Iakovos Patatsos Andreas Zakos Charilaos Michael Michael Koutsoftas Stelios Mavrommatis Andreas Panagides Evagoras Pallikarides He was hanged on 14.3.1957 Another four EOKA fighters, whose heroic action surprised even the conquerors, are also buried in the Imprisoned Graves. The British refused to give the bodies of the heroes to their families fearing the people’s demonstrations at their funeral. They buried them in the prisonãs cemetery as they buried those who died on the gallows. The four heroes are the following: Markos Drakos Gregoris Afxentiou Stylianos Lenas Kyriakos Matsis In the four graves of the Central Prisons cemetery the British buried eight bodies in order to save space. The eight heroes are, two in each grave: Andreas Demetriou and Stylianos Lenas Andreas Zakos and Kyriakos Matsis Andreas Panagides and Michael Koutsoftas Gregoris Afxentiou and Evagoras Pallikarides After the end of the struggle the Imprisoned Graves became a place of pilgrimage, a monument to heroism and resistance to the forces of violence and terrorism, a sacred temple of freedom founded on the bones of the immortal EOKA fighters. Their immortality is declared by an inscription on the cemetery wall: “A brave man’s death is not death”. } They were hanged together on 9.8.1956 They were hanged together on 21.9.1956 }