The Palekythro massacre: survivors tell their stories

Here is a news item that appeared on Cyprus TV on 6 March 2009 regarding the Palekythro massacre, in which Turkish Cypriot irregulars slaughtered 18 Greeks, mostly women, children and the elderly, from the village of Palekythro. Of the 18 killed, eight were members of one family. They were Ioannis Mihail, 77, and his wife, Christina, 68, their son, Michalis, 42, their daughter, Margarita Liasi, 48, her three daughters, Eleni, 25, Christina, 23, and Iliada, 18, as well as Loukas Kkailos, aged 2, Margaritas grandson. Two members of the Liasi family survived the massacre: Giorgios, 15, and Yiannoula, 27, Loukas mother. Another brother, Panayiotis, was serving with the National Guard at the time and was not in the village, while the father, Loukas Liasi, was away working in Libya. In the clip (with English subtitles), Giorgios and Yiannoula recall the massacre of their family.
See also: http://hellenicantidote.blogspot.com/2009/03/palekythro-massacre-more-victims...
and
http://hellenicantidote.blogspot.com/2009/02/palekythro-massacre.html

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• Cyprus
• Turkish invasion
• Turkish Cypriots
• Cyprus missing
• massacre
• Palekythro
• Liasi family