UPDATE, 20:17 GMT+2 A translation of the suicide note left by Dimitris Christoulas, the 77-year old man who commited suicide at Syntagma Square in Athens earlier today (see below for background to his story).
The Tsolakoglou* [Quisling] occupation government literally nullified my ability to survive on a decent pension, for which I had already paid (without government aid) for 35 years.
I am of an age that prevents me from offering a decent individual response (without of course ruling out the possibility of being the second person to take arms, should one person decide to do so), I find no solution other than a dignified end, before resorting to going through garbage in order to cover my nutritional needs.
One day, I believe, the youth with no future will take up arms and hang the national traitors at syntagma square, just like the Italians did with Mussolini in 1945 (at Milan’s Piazzale Loreto)
–Dimitris Christoulas, Syntagma, Athens, April 4th, 2012
[*Georgios Tsolakoglou was a Greek military officer who became the first Prime Minister of the Greek collaborationist government during the Axis Occupation in 1941-1942.]
Suicide rates have doubled in Greece since the government signed the loan agreement with IMF/EU/ECB. This morning (Apr 4), a 77-year old retired pharmacist shot himself dead at Syntagma, Athens’ central Square (his suicide note is translated above).
Yesterday evening, a 38-year old father of two and long-term unemployed, jumped off the roof of his housing block in the town of Ierapetra, Crete.
There are calls circulating for a rally tonight on Syntagma Square at 18:00. One of the calls is accompanied by this flyer:
 |
| ‘Scumbags, one suicide per day because of you, but the day is coming when the desperate ones will choose to take the law into their own hands: you shall pay’ |
From Occupied London - From the Greek Streets.
I do not think there will be great trials (or great justice of any sort) without a revolutionary victory first. For Louis XVI to be executed the revolutionary forces had to take power first.
ReplyDeleteAlso we have seen before indebted super-powers: what was the empire of Charles V and Philip II other than a super-indebted super-power? Of course it's not sustainable in the long run... but the long run is always too long a wait for the living (only the historians or the most patient ones care about it).
The real problem is not debt but exploitation and the fact that workers, who are the victims, have ALL the power in their hands and their minds. They just have to agree to make things change.