19260 - The moat of Famagusta

N. Lygeros
Translated from the Greek by Vicky Baklessi

The moat of Famagusta is intact as strange as it may seem for the occupied territories of Cyprus. However it has been there for centuries now, without barbaric flags on it so as to show us from now how Cyprus will be when we free the occupied territories from the thrall of barbarity. The old city of Famagusta has lived through much worst during the period 1570-1571 and it is not the present occupation that will weigh it down. The resistance of Famagusta that period shone all over Europe. And it is unacceptable for some to have in mind only the Famagusta of 1974. Famagusta is a symbol and indeed sacred for Cyprus and all of Europe. And the moat even from now shows the path. It is sufficient for each of us to go around it and from one side of the port to arrive over to the other side. Not as if Time has stopped, but on the contrary as if it has placed the present occupation in a parenthesis. There we don’t have to bring down a flag, like in other places and we can see through the past our enclaved future showing to all of own, the path of light, the way to liberation. So for some instead of looking at the school notebooks with the I don’t forget and feeling nostalgic, let them see from now the future that already awaits.