Then I heard a heavy voice, which seemed to come from under the floor, reply in Greek: 'I do not surrender.' I heard the translator say in Greek: 'Matsis, Matsis, you were caught in the hideout. 442) Salim Yavouz heard the entire dialogue between Kyriakos Matsis and the translator, and later testified: The Sergeant of the Criminal Investigation Department (no. "Choose as much as possible the way of your death, a beautiful death is usually the noblest act of life!" He had underlined in his book "The Iron Testament" by Dimitrakopoulou: He had foreseen it in his letters, he had analyzed it in his philosophical meditations, he had confidently recorded it in his diary, he had sung it. He had left in his soul no moral room for choice. Surrounded in his suffocating hideout, he had no choice but to die. On 13 September 1956 he escaped and put a £5,000 bounty on his head. He was arrested on 9 January 1956, during torture he was visited by Governor Harding himself and offered him the exorbitantly large sum of £500,000 for the time if he would reveal where Digenis was hiding. He was section leader of EOKA in the Famagusta provinces from 1955 and section leader of Kyrenia until his death. He joined the Cyprus Pan-Agricultural Union for the rights of the farmer at a very early stage. In 1946 he entered the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki where he studied agronomy, during his stay in Thessaloniki he organised lectures on national enlightenment, while when he returned to Cyprus he worked as an agronomist in Famagusta. He was born in the village of Palaichori, Nicosia on 23 January 1926 and was one of the three children of the family of Christofi and Kyriakos Matsis.
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