bigOz wrote:Welcome back Miltiades! I tried not to participate in this threads because you are clearly perfectly well tooled up to deal with what is right and what is wrong. Hence I stuck to reading the posts only.
But I must express my pleasure in seeing this quote in your posts:Conversation turned to the past and all 3 concurred that prior to the fanatics of EOKA B they had interacted with their neighbours and had no problems what so ever. None expressed any malice against their old neighbours on the contrary all were criticizing the G/C fanatics for all the mess that ensued.
If only all GCs had the same view, there would no longer be a Cyprus problem! It is not really asking for much is it - but at every attempt things start shooting in different directions and some change the whole conversation into "Yes but... No but...", resulting in false accusations of fanaticism aimed at those who are truly looking for ways of achieving a united Cyprus.
It may still be possible one day, when people start to call themselves "Cypriots" and be proud of it in real sense - until then VERY HARD WORK MY FRIEND!
BigOz , most Cypriots G/C and T/Cs are of the opinion that fanatics were the culprits and not the ordinary hard working family orientated Cypriots. Both communities to a lesser or a greater extend had their own band of fanatics and we see evidence of this even on this forum.
We need to bury the past , look to the future and forgive and forget just as Birkibrisly has done , Kikapu , Myself and many many more.