A CRY FROM GREECE

Wanganui Chronicle, 12 April 1948, Page 6

A CRY FROM GREECE

TREATMENT OF WOMEN GUERRILLAS INDICTED. Athens, April 9 Ninety-four Greek women's organisations have protested against the treatment of Greek women by the guerrillas. During the month of January approximately 800 women and gills were either killed, raped, or abducted by the Communist forces, the women’s organisations claimed. Those killed were mostly mothers trying to defend their daughters, they said. In a written protest copies uf which were circulated to foreign newspaper correspondents, the organisations appealed “to all true women of the civilised world” io - sympathy ano assistance. “INDIFFERENCE CRIMINAL." “Humanity must awake to the sacrilege being committed against all womanhood. Indifference to such atrocities, whether in a person or a group would rightly be classed as criminal, especially where that person or group is in a position to lend aid by work or influence. Indifference would be a biot on the history of hun.a.n,t> ” The statement sa.o that for the third time in the Instory of modern Greece “the e is being enacted the awful drama cf Greek women throwing themselves down from mountain cliff.-; to avoid slavery and dishonour. The girls of Epirus—direct descendants of the women of the village of Zalongos, who, chanting their death song, plunged with their babes into the waters of the Acheron—are repeating this tragedy.” The protesting organisations includthe National Council of Greek Women, the Hellenic Association of University Women, Greek Red Cross Volunteer Nurses, Hellenic Girl Guides,, Women’s Association for Education, Y.W.C.A., Lyceum Club of Greek Women, and the National League of Greek Women of Egypt. ,