Gary Herakleous

March for Peace Gary Herakleous

It was in July of 1974, the Turkish Army invaded and occupied forty percent of the Greek island of Cyprus. Since then, the conflict between the Greeks and Turks continues, the hate against each other passes on, from one generation to the next. Their governments, instead of drafting the terms of peace, they parcel out billions of dollars to empower their militaries with weapons of war, destruction and annihilation. The people, finally, chose to forge ahead, to shape their future according to their own inspirations, but not their governments, as thousands of them march nad shout in unison their longing for peace. The tanks wait for them, mechanical, carnivorous dinosaurs, with orders to shoot to kill anyone who braves penetrate the Neutral Zone. Not even a dove dares fly over the forsaken land, but only the ones who are ready to die for the love of peace may enter. This is the story of the aftermath of their march for peace and an episode of no significance at first; the abduction of an american citizen and three children. The two events merge and launch an upheaval of tragic proportions. As they move ahead to embrace the innocent Goddess of peace, their lives are forever changed, because some unknown power watches from afar, decreeing the nature of things to come. Not only for the inhabitants of this miniature island in the Mediterranean Sea, called Cyprus, but for the planst earth, of the twenty-first century.