"The
occupation government has literally diminished my ability to survive,
which had been based on a dignified pension that I alone had contributed
to. Because my age does not allow me individual radical activity (not
that if one Greek took up a Kalashnikof rifle, I wouldn't be the second
to do so), I cannot find a solution other than a dignified end before I
start going through the bins for my sustenance. I believe that the youth
without future will one day take up arms and hang upside down in
Syntagma Square the national traitors, just as the italians did to
Mussolini (in Piazza Loretto, Milan)" -- translation by Kostas Tondoulos
of the note of a 77 year old man who shot himself today in Syntagma
Square, Athens.