APPEAL FOR GREECI

Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 164, 13 July 1945, Page 5

APPEAL FOR GREECI

Allegations Of Terror And! Mass Murder CRUELTY TO E.A.M. MEMBERS Rec. 12.30 p.m. "LONDON, July 12 An appeal to, the people througl out the world to save them from " regime of terror more hideous tha: the Metaxis dictatorship and wors than the period of barbarous slaveryf was issued in London by the centre? committee of the E.A.M. (Nationa Liberation Front). The statenierf says that Fascist remnants, quisling and collaborators rule Greece's eif tire State machinery. The whole r« sistance movement is being rutll lessly persecuted, it is alleged. An appeal is made for every kinj of moral and material assistance sj that democratic liberties can a established in Greece according tf international pledges. It is allege] that 60,000 men of the E.L.A.S Liberation Army were victimiseo imprisoned, tortured, humiliated an murdered, and that thousands c, E.L.A.S. wounded were expellej from hospitals and deprived of mecl cal treatment. Five hundred coq batants have been murdered in tn four months since the Varzika agre ment While quislings have bed virtually unpunished, members (j the resistance movement have bees sentenced to death and E.L.A.S leaders imprisoned.

Many resistance fighters are sai to be utterly destitute, and are beiri excluded from posts where the! could earn a living solely for the: democratic opinions. Numercv armed bands are blockading village making mass arrests, murderin/ looting and torturing with the u most inhumanity, the statement coi eludes.

The Prime Minister of Greece, A< miral Voulgaris, has handed to tr British, American and French Ar bassadgrs to Athens a memorandui requesting Allied intervention i northern Piraeus to protect tr Greek papulation until the peac conference.