Continuation of the testimony of Kostas Plakotaris about his arrest and transfer to Gyaros during the 1967 dictatorship…
“In the dictatorship you can’t even speak and any one of them can pick up a gun and kill you. Bitter medicine. Because we are human. It’s moments and moments. There are times when the truth suffocates you. You say, it’s poison, where are they taking me, why? And there are other moments when you throw it to the crazy, you say you’re not bored. They took us to Gyaros.
They took us to Jura, but there was no organization whatsoever. Scorpions and snakes everywhere where they took us, into these coves. I had been there before, to this cove where they took me. We collected them in piles and piles and set them on fire. With the kettles we used to eat, we lined up to get water from the sea and carried it up to wash the cabins on the mountain to remove the dirt so that the fly wouldn’t eat us. The cloud fly. And in the midst of all this, he also catches a little trouble. To get your food from the kitchen, where it was distributed, and to go to the chandiris, it was filled with dirt and flies. Real hell.
The weather conditions in those first days made it even more difficult for her. Disorganization, definitely. Thousands of people gathered and brought him there. A tanker from the Peloponnese was waiting. And we made little tsandiraki for them to go inside. They came 700-800, but in a short time about seventy remained from this story. The others made a statement and left. And I saw them and I felt sorry for them. Because he was sitting in the sun with a handkerchief on his head. And they were waiting to be called to go and sign a statement for people to leave. Well, they had their problems, they had families.
Yura drew public outcry. Think that one day an airplane came there and circled over the island, rides, rides. And in 2-3 days, a German magazine comes to us with published photos, the wires, the women who spread his clothes, because he also had women in Jura. My sister was there too. And it read: The Hell of Jura. It showed the purposes, the wires. It was a German plane and they didn’t catch it. He escaped them and entered Italy.
They would be good for us, I told them. You will see chicken here, you will see fruit because if something happens to us, where will they find other fools to become Ministers and Prime Ministers?”
Of Dimitris Frezoulis
P.S.: From the television show of “Alithea TV” and the 4The volume “Human Trajectories” (Alpha Pi Publications).
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