Gennimatas. Markos Vafiadis also returned to Greece and supported the PASOK government, and was elected a Member of Parliament for PASOK. In 1989, the Greek Parliament voted unanimously a law that declared the three-year war of 1946–1949 as formally having been the "Greek Civil War" and accepted the former "Communist Bandits" as "Fighters of DSE", giving some of them privileges of pension. Awards and decorations On 4 April 1948, the Provisional Democratic Government's Law Number 13 established awards and decorations in order to mark extraordinary bravery and courage, as well as distinguished service during times of war by individual DSE soldiers and well as units. The aforementioned law established the following awards and decorations: Medal of Military Valor Grade A and B Electra Medal Sniper Distinguished Service Medal Saboteur Distinguished Service Medal Distinguished Service in an Occupied City Medal Artillery Distinguished Service Medal Navy Distinguished Service Medal Distinguished Service in the Monarchist-Fascist Army Medal Aircraft Destruction Medal Tank Destruction Medal Distinguished Scouting Service Medal Wound Badge Distinction for Past Service in ELAS Seniority Distinction Α Provisional Democratic Government decree dating to 24 March 1949, awarded 33 participants of the Battle of Litochoro with the Medal of Military Valor which bore the inscription "LITOCHORO". A total of 970 DSE members received medals during the course of the civil war, including 557 men and 413 women. The Oath of the DSE fighter The following text was the oath that DSE members must swear and abide by. During enrollment, the member would swear: “I, a child of the Greek people and a DSE fighter, swear to battle with gun in hand, to shed my blood, and give even my life to banish from the soil of my motherland every last foreign occupier. To banish every trace of fascism. To secure and defend the national independence and territorial integrity of my motherland. To secure and defend democracy, honor, work, fortune, and progress of my people. I swear to be a good, brave and disciplined soldier, to carry out all the orders of my superiors, to observe all regulations, and not betray any secrets of the DSE. I swear to be a good example to the people, to encourage popular unity and reconciliation, and to avoid any action that reduces and dishonors me, as a person and as a fighter. My ideal is a free and strong democratic Greece and the progress and prosperity of