zan wrote:
What happened in he 50s is neither here nor there. The republic was born in 1960 and the chance we had to live as a Cypriot people was blown out of the water by a corrupt and warring priest. Makarios promised the Cypriots the world and gave us hell on earth. Everything that went before was null and void by the formation of a republic. All that you wish now could have happened from there on in but was destroyed and a treasonous attempt at further ENOSIS by him and Greece set the scene for today. Instead of you hating this man for losing you almost everything you build statues of him and celebrate his incompetence year upon year. What sort of a fool does that. I will tell you. A sort of fool that thinks along ENOSIS lines today and thinks that he can dupe the only obstacle in his way, namely the TCs, into cutting their own throats. Think again sweetie.
Zan once again you follow the TC administration propaganda and forget to ask questions. I believe you are an educated individual who has the mental capacity to see that some things that you have been fed with do not tie up with historical facts.
You say that Makarios plotted with Greece and the Junta to achieve Enosis - how do you explain that Makarios was seen by the Junta and their EOKA B puppets as a traitor who did not want enosis.
How do you explain the numerous attempts on his life and the other 2 failed attempts for a coup before the 15 July one?Makarios made serious mistakes during the first years of the republic, as the TC leaders did, however he stood firm against the Greek Junta's plans for enosis and was the first one to speak out and confront those plans.