WHY WE FIGHT:Pics and Videos of Cypriot Vigils and Demonstrations in Washington DC and Nicosia

For Immediate Release: July 23, 2009

Contact: Nikolaos Taneris, New York, Tel. (917) 699-9935

NEW YORK--The Cyprus Action Network of America (CANA) is pleased that the fervor
for justice is growing stronger with each passing year, as much as the Greek and
Cypriot establishment and lobby groups with their political ineptitude and
personal agendas would like to bury this issue of memorialising 20th of July
with muddled messages and talks (to the tune of bouzoukia and baglamades) on
so-called "solutions" that involve so-called "federations" with the very
criminals who perpetrated a HOLOCAUST on Greek-Cypriots,we say NEVER AGAIN. We
will not be silent , and we are not going away.

Photos taken during our 18 hr Cyprus Vigil outside the Turkish Ambassador's
residence in Washington DC at Sheridan Circle/Park on July 19-July20 ,2009 are
available for download at the 'Pictures' page on our website:

http://www.cyprusactionnetwork.org/pictures

The CANAgrassroots Youtube channel is posting Videos on the Cyprus Vigil 2009,
please view and distribute:

Youtube: Cypriots Face Turkish Barbarism in Washington DC (part 1) Vigil Set Up
at 7PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IbeUWLQh4s

Youtube: Cypriots Face Turkish Barbarism in Washington DC (part 2) Nightfall at
Vigil
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxUU231gK3g

Also check out the Turkish Lobby setting up the counter-demonstration at 9AM
outside their own Turkish Embassy in Washington DC on July 20, 2009 (notice the
many flags of the illegal pseudo state and the red and yellow flags of the
Pseudo-Macedonians)

Youtube:35-year Commemoration of Turkish Invasion of Cyprus Counter-"Protest" 1
of 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0sR8ZNqBSk

Youtube:35-year Commemoration of Turkish Invasion of Cyprus Counter-"Protest" 2
of 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxUU231gK3g

Our Vigil in Washington DC was complimented by what was accomplished by our
brothers and sisters in Nicosia in the sacred homeland who marched on to mark
the 20th of July , this is the hope of the new generation , and all the ones
after that will
NEVER FORGIVE, NEVER FORGET.

Please view the videos and pics below and post them to your sites, blogs,
facebook pages, twitter them and pass them on to your friends. Thousands poured
into the streets on the 20th of July in Nicosia , a sea of youth, that fights
on. The Slogans this year included "TURKI MOGGOLI DOLOFONI,-- TURKS MONGOLS
MURDERERS" and "KATO TA HERIA OMOSAPINDIAKI , I KYPROS EINAI ELLINIKI--HANDS
OFF CYPRUS FEDERATIONISTS! CYPRUS IS HELLENIC!" and "STI KYRENIA TA SINORA MAS
EINAI--OUR BORDERS ARE AT KYRENIA"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht7D3NHuHrY

This video captures the march to the Ledra roadblock , they are singing a
patriotic song about the liberation of our Hellenic land,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Cc976NNXXI

They are singing "SA AGAPO PATRIDA ELLINIKI YIA SENA THA PETHANO STO TAFO MOU
THA VALO SIMAI ELLINIKI--I LOVE YOU HELLENIC HOMELAND FOR YOU I WILL DIE AND I
WILL DRAPE A HELLENIC FLAG OVER MY TOMB"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnWcKPm9RI8

"I KYPROS EINAI ELLINIKI KAI I MAKEDONIA--CYPRUS IS HELLENIC! MACEDONIA IS
HELLENIC!", as they approach Ledra Palace,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ajL8e7vbKo

THIS VIDEO DOCUMENTS TURKISH BARBARIANS THROWING STONES AT OUR BROTHERS AND
SISTERS FROM THE TOP OF THE DIVIDING WALL THIS 20th of JULY:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKk-k1kNet8


The Cypriot Student organization “METOPO” organized an excellent and at the same
time very creative anti-occupational event on Sunday the 19th of July. Metopo
are the only independent non-partisan Cypriot student movement in the UK and in
the last student elections received 13% of the votes. They reject a solution
based on a bi-zonal, bi-communal federation. (www.metopo.org.uk) They chartered
a catamaran and sailed through the busy beaches of Lemesos with a huge banner
which said ‘ΔΕΝ ΞΕΧΝΩ το ΔΕΝ ΞΕΧΝΩ’. (Do not forget the famous slogan of WE DO
NOT FORGET WHAT HAPPENED IN CYPRUS)
It was in the main news bulletins of all Cyprus TV networks except of course RIK
(CYBC) the channel the government controls. Shame on RIK !

http://freedom4cyprus.blogspot.com/2009/07/freedom-boat.html

The Bloody Map of Cyprus with the slogan ΔΕΝ ΞΕΧΝΩ’ (I Don't Forget), is being
"disappeared" under the Christofias Communist Regime (the request to have the
Bloody Map of Cyprus disappear was originally made by the Turks), this issue was
brought up by London-based journalist Fanoulla Argyrou when it was discovered
that the Cypriot Federation in the UK removed the Bloody Map of Cyprus from
their website, see the article here:

http://web.mac.com/tanea_london/TANEAonLINE/Salt-Pepper2.html

Coincidentially, the Cyprus Federation of America also does not have the Bloody
Map of Cyprus on its website, and instead shows a Cyprus without any lines
through it, which seems to be the map the Turks insist on getting up(!)

On a sad note, several arrests were made in Cyprus, some reports say six people
were arrested at the 20th of July demonstrations in Cyprus for openly speaking
their mind about Communist Christofias and shouting out that he's a traitor,
luckily this story was picked up by the foreign press, Agence France Press
reported that four people , other sources say six were arrested,in what seems to
be a crackdown on dissent and a violation of free expression in Cyprus:

http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=304468&version=1&template_id=39&parent_id=21

Please visit the Freedom for Cyprus blog (http://www.freedom4cyprus.blogspot.com/)
and download pics and video of the demonstrations to send to friends and to post
on the net. The 20th of July is not forgotten, they just want us to forget it,
by posting a pic or video, or writing about these events or even sending out
their commentary you will help to contribute and help stop those who are trying
to hide the truth , and those that want to shut us up.
Thank you.

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