At 5:30 on the morning of Saturday, July 20, 1974, the citizens of the sovereign island-nation of Cyprus woke to the deafening sound of bombs, and the nauseating smell of napalm. A massive invasion by vastly superior Turkish armed forces threw Cyprus and its people into a nightmare of injustice while the world watchedοΏ½but did nothing

οΏ½The Hellenes of N. & S. America, and all freedom-loving people in our Hemisphere, want the long-suffering people of Cyprus, Greeks and Turks alike, to know that we share in their 30-year ordeal,οΏ½ said Chris P. Tomaras, οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½ V.P. and Regional Coordinator for The Americas. οΏ½Our fellow Hellenes on the island should also know that we support their democratic right to reject the Annan Plan, and that Regional Coordinating Council Member Andreas D. Comodromos and I are working closely with οΏ½οΏ½οΏ½ Pres. Andrew A. Athens, Philip Christopher and PSEKA, Peter Papanicolaou and the Cyprus Federation, Andrew Manatos, and all the other members of the community, to distill and promote an alternative solutionοΏ½ a solution that will allow both communities to resume their lives and truly begin to enjoy the benefits of CyprusοΏ½ hard-fought accession into the European Union. The generation that suffered through this totally unjustified invasion, and future generations of Cypriot children, deserve nothing less from their brothers and sisters throughout The Diaspora,οΏ½ Tomaras concluded.

WHAT YOU CAN DO -
CALL OR WRITE YOUR REPRESENTATIVES IN GOVERNMENT, DEMANDING THAT THEY WORK FOR A JUST SOLUTION, AND AN END, TO 30 YEARS OF INJUSTICE.