15869 - Why are the graves imprisoned ?

N. Lygeros
Translated from the Greek by Athena Kehagias

The imprisoned graves of the fighters of the liberation front are amongst the most famous in Cyprus and from the most symbolic ones.
But yet again, after so many decades they aren’t yet free and remain imprisoned.
Is it possible that an entire nation allows these symbols to be incarcerated within the prisons?
Isn’t it enough that our heroes had their lives ended in prison, that they should live their death within the same place.
Albert Camus had already written about this matter denouncing the brutal condemnation.
Yet again nothing has changed, as if no one wants to face up to reality.
Even though it’s simple.
A symbol such as that can’t remain imprisoned, while it represents our history and our ancestors battle.
It’s important to pressure the institutional bodies to finally make a decision in order to release the incarcerated graves so that they may be accessible to the Cypriot nation, and to the entire Hellenism in general, so that the next ones would see the example of the foregoing.
What’s of great value is that with their tasks they accomplished the inconceivable, and gave us the freedom which we experience through their sacrifice, whereas we allow them to remain in enslavement due to our inertia and our inaction.
Our respect towards them alone, should have led us towards their liberation.
It isn’t too late, and this can occur even now.
So let’s do what ought to be done as soon as possible in their memory.