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[growuptcs]

Cypriots have no embargos. Just the ones who dream of living in a real world do. Respecting others peoples property and assets is what you have to learn before entering the EU. Till then, stop being two-faced with whats not yours, and then we can talk business.

[cypezokyli]

What do you mean the Akritas plan has no basis. On what grounds do you say that.

there is no doubt that the akritas plan exists.
the gc narrative either shows ignorance about the plan or describe it as "defensive". for the gcs as a i said above it was a "tc mutiny".
the tc narrative, completely ignores all other more serious factors of the time, and places its whole explanation on akritas plan, trying to prove an attempt to "ethnically cleanse tcs".

in essense the akritas plan played no role in the outbrake of the ethnic conflict in 63-64 and no role on how the violence evolved. it was a piece of paper written by a bunch of morons which had absolutely no consequence on the what followed.

the major reason for the outbrake of violence, was the arming of extreme right wing paramilitary from both sides, due to mutual mistrust . both prepared similar plans in case violence erupted, but it was precisely their actions that made violence a self-fulling prophecy.

the second reason was (epecially after makarios introduced the 13 points), was the explosive climate created by gc and tc politicians and media. the two communities were on a collision course, for months, and violence broke out because of an accidental event, and it was under no circumstances pre-planned. the two leaders made numerous calls for the violence to stop, but thigs were simply out-of-hand.

the akritas plan was neither defensive nor offensive - it was unimportant. the sad fact that tcs had more casualties had nothing to do with the plan.