Author: National Committee for Self-Determination of Cyprus [ Ethnike Epitrope Antodiatheseos Kyprou ]
Title: One of the Greatest Crimes of this Century
Description: [Athens], [National Committee...], [1956]. orig.wrappers. 21x13cm, 8pp.. Textual photo illustrations.. Cover title. VG. ¶ Concerning the 1956 execution of Cyprus Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston [EOKA] guerrilla fighters Michael Karaolis & Andreas Dimitriou. ["Michalis Karaolis was a Cypriot guerilla fighter, the first man executed by the British colonial authorities in the EOKA struggle (1955 - 1959)....On August 28, 1955, Karaolis, along with two EOKA companions (Andreas Panayiotou and Yiannis Ioannou) executed a Greek-Cypriot Special Branch police constable named Herodotus Poullis in Ledra Street, Lefkosia. All three men got away in the confusion that followed but Karaolis had to leave his bicycle behind. From Department of Transportation records the British were able to trace its ownership and Karaolis became a wanted man. According to Grivas' standard practice, he had to join the guerrila fighters on the mountains. A close associate of Grivas and money-donor to the cause, Yiannakis Drousiotis, wrote a letter of introduction to Grigoris Afxentiou to accept him on his team. A few days later, Karaolis, with this letter in his pocket, was stopped and arrested by Turkish- Cypriot policemen who handed him to the British. Karaolis was tried and convicted of PC Poullis' murder and was executed by hanging on May 10, 1956, along with Andreas Dimitriou. He was buried in the Imprisoned Tombs in the Central Jail of Lefkosia. His death sparked anti-British riots in Greece where 4 persons died and 200 were injured" - Phantis]

Keywords: Cyprus, Cypriot Nationalist, Ethniki Organosis, Kyprion Agoniston, Guerrilla Warfare, Michael Karaolis, Andreas Dimitriou, National Liberation, Political History, Politics Colonial