The inhabitants of Kolossi, the organised groups and the Community Council of Kolossi, desiring to pay a modicum of tribute to the community's heroes, which gave their life for our country's freedom, have constructed a modest monument with the busts of the community's two heroes.

The copper busts of the two youths, Andreas Onesiforou and Socrates Socratous, will forever remind us their sacrifice at the altar of freedom.

A biographical record of the Hero Andreas Onesiforou.

Andreas Onesiforou, born in 1934 and a member of a poor family, was a native of Kolossi.

Andreas worked in the Antiquities Department as a guard in the Castle of Kolossi.

His love for his country's freedom led him into the National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters (EOKA) from an early age.

He was engaged to Iliana Andronicou, aged eighteen.

On 10/2/1956 the attempt of British soldiers to lower the Greek flag from the Elementary School of Kolossi resulted in scuffles. Andreas took a volley of bullets in the chest while trying to help Helen Philippou, who was injured by the British conquerors' fire. They were both transferred to the hospital but Andreas was already dead. His funeral was on 13/2/1956.

Four months later, on 29/6/1956, his fiancee Iliana Andronicou also dies, struck by an incurable illness a few days after the tragic death of Andreas Onesiforou.