Parties mark 30th anniversary of Isaac and Solomou killings with renewed calls for justice

Political parties on Tuesday marked the 30th anniversary of the killings of Tassos Isaac and Solomos Solomou, paying tribute to the two men and renewing calls for justice and the liberation of Cyprus. In separate statements, Diko, Disy, Edek and Elam described the killings as enduring symbols of the island’s occupation and criticised the continued […]

Isaak and Solomou killings: 30 years on, no one has been convicted

This year marks 30 years since the killings of Tasos Isaak and, days later, his cousin Solomos Solomou, and those responsible remain unpunished. The 24-year-old Isaak was killed on August 11, 1996, during an anti-occupation demonstration in the dead zone at Deryneia. He had taken part in a motorcyclists’ march that set out from Berlin […]

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30 years since the killings of Isaac and Solomou: They were killed in front of cameras, yet the perpetrators were never tried

The crimes were captured frame by frame, the suspects were identified, yet no one was ever brought to trial. Instead, some of those implicated even went on to political careers in the Turkish-controlled north of Cyprus The post 30 years since the killings of Isaac and Solomou: They were killed in front of cameras, yet the perpetrators were never tried appeared first on ProtoThema English.

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