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'''Michalis Karaolis''' was a [[Cyprus|Cypriot]] freedom fighter, the first man executed by the British colonial authorities in the [[EOKA]] struggle ([[1955]] - [[1959]]).

Karaolis was born in Palaiochori, [[Lefkosia province]], on [[February 13]], [[1933]]. He was educated in the British school system of Cyprus and was described as a fine cricket player and an excellent student.

He started working in the British Income Tax Office of [[Nicosia]] in [[1954]]. One year later (June [[1955]]), as part of the [[EOKA]] campaign to drive out the British and unite the island with [[Greece]], Karaolis blew up his place of employment. Unwilling to kill any co-workers, he set the timer on his bomb to go off on a Sunday.

On [[August 28]], [[1955]], Karaolis, along with two EOKA companions (Andreas Panayiotou and Yiannis Ioannou) executed a Greek-Cypriot Special Branch police constable named Poullis in Ledra Street, Lefkosia. All three men got away in the confusion that followed but Karaolis had to leave his bicycle behind. From Department of Transportation records the British were able to trace its ownership and Karaolis became a wanted man. According to [[Georgios Grivas|Grivas]]' standard practice, he had to join the guerrila fighters on the mountains. A close associate of Grivas and money-donor to the cause, Yiannakis Drousiotis, wrote a letter of introduction to [[Grigoris Afxentiou]] to accept him on his team. A few days later, Karaolis, with this letter in his pocket, was stopped and arrested by Turkish-Cypriot policemen who handed him to the British.

Karaolis was tried and convicted of PC Poullis' murder and was executed by hanging on [[May 10]], [[1956]], along with [[Andreas Dimitriou]]. He was buried in the [[Imprisoned Tombs]] in the [[Central Jail of Lefkosia]]. His death sparked anti-British riots in [[Greece]] where 4 persons died and 200 were injured.

[[Category:1933 births|Karaolis, Michalis]]
[[Category:1956 deaths|Karaolis, Michalis]]

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	Karaolis was born in Palaiochori, [[Lefkosia province]], on [[February 13]], [[1933]]. He was educated in the British school system of Cyprus and was described as a fine cricket player and an excellent student.		Karaolis was born in Palaiochori, [[Lefkosia province]], on [[February 13]], [[1933]]. He was educated in the British school system of Cyprus and was described as a fine cricket player and an excellent student.

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 He started working in the British Income Tax Office of [[Nicosia]] in [[1954]]. One year later (June [[1955]]), as part of the [[EOKA]] campaign to drive out the British and unite the island with [[Greece]], Karaolis blew up his place of employment. Unwilling to kill any co-workers, he set the timer on his bomb to go off on a Sunday.
-On [[August 28]], [[1955]], Karaolis, along with two EOKA companions (Andreas Panayiotou and Yiannis Ioannou) executed a Greek-Cypriot Special Branch police constable named Poullis in Ledra Street, Lefkosia. All three men got away in the confusion that followed but Karaolis had to leave his bicycle behind. From Department of Transportation records the British were able to trace its ownership and Karaolis became a wanted man. According to [[Georgios Grivas|Grivas]]' standard practice, he had to join the guerrila fighters on the mountains. A close associate of Grivas and money-donor to the cause, Yiannakis Drousiotis, wrote a letter of introduction to [[Grigoris Afxentiou]] to accept him on his team. A few days later, Karaolis, with this letter in his pocket, was stopped and arrested by Turkish-Cypriot policemen who handed him to the British.
+On [[August 28]], [[1955]], Karaolis, along with two EOKA companions (Andreas Panayiotou and Yiannis Ioannou) executed a Greek-Cypriot Special Branch police constable named Herodotus Poullis in Ledra Street, Lefkosia. All three men got away in the confusion that followed but Karaolis had to leave his bicycle behind. From Department of Transportation records the British were able to trace its ownership and Karaolis became a wanted man. According to [[Georgios Grivas|Grivas]]' standard practice, he had to join the guerrila fighters on the mountains. A close associate of Grivas and money-donor to the cause, Yiannakis Drousiotis, wrote a letter of introduction to [[Grigoris Afxentiou]] to accept him on his team. A few days later, Karaolis, with this letter in his pocket, was stopped and arrested by Turkish-Cypriot policemen who handed him to the British.
 Karaolis was tried and convicted of PC Poullis' murder and was executed by hanging on [[May 10]], [[1956]], along with [[Andreas Dimitriou]]. He was buried in the [[Imprisoned Tombs]] in the [[Central Jail of Lefkosia]]. His death sparked anti-British riots in [[Greece]] where 4 persons died and 200 were injured.