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[brother]

why bulio?

[Alexandros Lordos]

i think he should be disciplined

You mean Jimmy? For his exams?

[boulio]

its a stupid thing to do and it shows no discipline and pranks like this will only lead to escalation of violence and tensions.also both the c;own who shot down the cypriot in 1996,and the animals that beat the cypriot to death in 1996 should also have been disciplined,have they and should they in your opinion brother?

[brother]

Absolutely that was a waste of human life, i am not defending their actions but they acted on the fact he commited a crime in their eyes by climbing the flagpole with the intent to deface their flag(turks very touchy about their flag)
But that gives them no right what so ever to kill them and as such whoever committed these crimes should rot in jail, as i see it a mother is crying for the unnecessary loss of her son, i cannot and will not condone these actions.

They could have dragged him down arrested them etc.

[brother]

Instead all they done was put more fear and mistrust in the gc heart.

[boulio]

exactly and im sure the incident a few days ago wasent the best pr move on the t/c either.

[insan]

But that gives them no right what so ever to kill them and as such whoever committed these crimes should rot in jail, as i see it a mother is crying for the unnecessary loss of her son, i cannot and will not condone these actions.

They could have dragged him down arrested them etc.

I completely agree with you brother. They could easily arrest Solomou when he was climbing the flagpole.

Instead all they done was put more fear and mistrust in the gc heart.

I also agree with boulio on this point. This kind of stupid retaliations can no way help the solution of the problem but rather pumps more hatred to spread all over Cyprus. All extreme actions should be harshly condemned by pro-peace Cypriots even if the relevant authorities haven't done their jobs properly to arrest those extremists to send court. But it is sad that, many similar incidents took place along side the Greenline in the last 30 years but no public reaction folowed the incidents in order to force the relevant authorities to do their job; arresting the reponsibles and sending court.

Pro-peace Cypriots? Do they really exist? What is their sanction power? Pro-peace Cypriots are in fear of their own lives? Does that mean most of them are self-seekers? Questionable but since the great demonstrations of ten thousands of TCs which had been an impulsive force for opening the gates; we have heard no similar movements to find the solution for the rest of the problems in front of the permenant solution; neither from TC side nor GCs side, even nor a bi-commual group. Just we've read some common declaration which didn't follow and actions. It is clear that just the words, complaints don't lead us anywhere we need action. We need action of massive bi-communal groups.

The question is do they really exist? But there's no doubt that there are massive groups of Cypriots behind the major parties of Cyprus. Is there any common ground between these political parties concerning a common movement to solve the rest of the problems? No.

We let everything to be solved and answered by time. Well, as always. It's been almost 50 years the story still goes on but we didn't learn that time is not enough to solve the problems, in itself.


There's a lot to be done but everybody is waiting for the judgement day. Waiting for the told you so. Until then, most probably it would have been too late.

[Saint Jimmy]

i think he should be disciplined

You mean Jimmy? For his exams?

No argument there... I probably will be, too
Aside from the joking, though, this thread is quite encouraging...

[-mikkie2-]

Can we purleeese get some sense of perspective!

Yes, it was a stupid thing to do, yes, he should be disciplined.

May I also remind you all that over the years, the Turks have taken pot shots at the National Guard using real guns with real bullets, killing a number of them. I wonder if any of them were disciplined or are they treated as heros in Turkey?

So no wonder WE find the Turks scary.

And brother, I really cannot understand how you can honestly conclude that this guy wants division and that he is making some kind of political statement. That is unless you are a mind reader of course.

[metecyp]

May I also remind you all that over the years, .....

This is what I have a problem with. Whenever we talk about something that one side did wrong, people feel the need to defend those actions by pointing out the wrongs of the other side. This happenned with the topic of Greek government calling Turks in Thrace Muslims, and many other topics. Why is it so hard to admit that something is wrong without trying to give excuses for it? Let's be honest to each other.