Andreas Paraskevas was the son of Nikos and Kiki Paraskevas, who also had Maro Paraskevas – Stokkou as a child. He was born in Platres and graduated from Omodos High School. He completed his military service and was preparing to go study abroad. However, he could not fulfill his dream because Black July caught up with him, losing his life on July 22, 1974. In July 1974, when the Turks invaded Greece, Andreas promptly enlisted to fulfil his duty to the country. In the vicinity of Nicosia’s Central Prisons, he fought alongside other Greek Cypriots on the front lines. He fought valiantly, but was killed at the age of twenty-one by the enemy’s gunfire. In his honour, the Community of Platres erected a monument of him in the area of the community’s municipal parking lot.