EOKA Members List : R

RAFTIS, George (A group leader, he operated in Lysso. Members of 50th Medium Regiment, RA, captured him in December 1956, with two of his comrades, hiding under a bridge in Kissonerga. His father provided him and his gang a hiding place in an orchard, a mile from Agioi Pantes church at Lysso. With independence, Eoka rewarded him with the post of sub-inspector in the police. Raftis turned against MAKARIOS and became a rabid member of Eoka-B. With the failure of the 15 July 1974 coup and subsequent Turkish intervention, he lost all his influence.)

RARADEMAS, Andreas. (He was one of Eoka's explosives experts. He was captured in a hideout concealed behind the hearth of a Greek police officer's house in Nicosia.)

REVELAS, Demetrious (A priest from mainland Greece, on 12.09.56 he was given seven days to leave Cyprus or face arrest for working with Eoka)

RHODOSTHENOUS, Lefkios (Born 1929 in Arminou, Limassol, he operated in Evidimou and Kilani areas. He was with GRIVAS throughout Operation Lucky Alphonse, which smashed most of the mountain gangs. He accompanied the Eoka leader on the long march through Ayios Mamas and Yerasa. He survived the conflict and attended GRIVAS's farewell party.)

RIGAS, Andreas (A member of the Cyprus Police Force, he was arrested in February 1957 for belonging to EOKA. His arrest, with that of ANDREAS HOUVARTES, led to the capture of ANDREAS CHARTAS, leader of the terrorists in Nicosia, and his chief courier.)

ROSSIDES, Michaelakis. (By early 1957, the Security Forces were winning their battle against Colonel Grivas's terrorists. In Larnaca, they captured 21-year-old Rossides, Eoka's District leader, who had been a clerk in a mining company. He confessed to shooting Pte Ronald SHILTON dead on Grivas's director orders, when the soldier from 1 Royal Leicesters was taken hostage in reprisal for an Eoka member awaiting execution in Nicosia Prison. 'Be sure that as from that day I continually lost my sleep,' he told his interrogators, 'and I used to see Ronnie's ghost in front of me.' Later he retracted his confession, but was still sentenced to death on 06.06.57. The sentence was never implemented. In September 1955, this Kalavasos man was one of the 17 Eoka terrorists who escaped from Kyrenia Castle. On 19.01.56, he broke out from detention again - this time from Trimithia Detention Center.)

ROTSIDES, Savvas. (A former storeman at the Mitsero mines, he was born 1935 in Mammari and was killed as he and Rogiros SHIPILLIS went to collect water from a spring near Aghridia Kyperounda on 24.11.58, where British troops were waiting to ambush the terrorists. SHIPILLIS escaped. After collecting his body for burial, his parents asked their priest to ring the church bells joyfully as if his burial were a celebration. )

Rotsides was the last terrorist to die in the Eoka conflict. On 7 April 1968, MAKARIOS unveiled a statue to his memory in his home village of Mammari, which today is in the Turkish Cypriot-controlled North. The statue was a typical Eoka 'fighters' pose - grenade in one hand, Sten gun in other.)

ROUSOUNIDES, Stravos (The 25-year-old led a hunger strike while he was confined in Pyla/Pile Camp during June 1957)

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