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[zan]

You still cannot see the difference between what the ordinary folk want and see and what those in power are doing.

[Pyrpolizer]

As for GC youth wanting more, I still do not understand what it is they don't have that they want more of? The rest of the island (as you put it)! Just in case anyone forgot, it is and has always been the TCs who did not have the same luxuries and financial security the South has been enjoying as the RoC. I am inclined to agree or at least believe that majority of GC youth might not have fanatical views - especially after having the chance to meet their compatriots in the North and realising they are not the "barbaric animals" they have been portrayed as all these years.

BigOz you really don't know how were our lives after 1974. When the gates opened yes we were fine, but until at least 1986, the conditions were from unbearable to extremely difficult especially for the refugees.

The only job I could find after a year of unemployement was at vasiliko cement works, inhaling cancerous cement dust for 9 hours a day just to survive.Even after work I could still chew traces of dust in my mouth. The conditions of work were not far from prisoners crushing stones, and the job extremely dangerous, I only thank God I haven't got killed there. And my father was dying everyday from the known decease. I started feeling like him, I kept on telling myself "am i going to spend the rest of my life like this?" As soon as my father died i got a shock and i resigned from Vasiliko. Back to unemployment again....

Just for everyones infrormation the cement furnaces of vassiliko were initially (before 1974) using nuclear power. Never heard of it ha? Anyway when I went there the were working with crude oil.

NB. Too many refugees working at Vasiliko then. There was one strange guy coming there with a luxurious brand new Mercedes, working as unskilled labourer. Guess what was he before 1974.

[DT.]

You still cannot see the difference between what the ordinary folk want and see and what those in power are doing.

you should know...you kept denktash in power for over 30 years.

[Pyrpolizer]

There was a bus taking us from Nicosia at 5.30 in the morning and carrying us to Vassiliko. Full of miserable people, you could hardly ever hear a joke or anything funny in the bus. That time was always night to just sunrise. The journey was for about an hour. As soon as we would turn left from Mari (a TC village) we would pray there was wind so the area was not full of dust. We are talking for an area of about 9 sq miles of cloudy dust.

The feeling of reaching our "Dahow concentration camp" was always so depressing.... Sad years indeed.

Btw if you have any relative working at Vasiliko today notice it is 100 times better today. The EU forced them to place filters, there is almost never a cloud of dust anymore.

[zan]

You still cannot see the difference between what the ordinary folk want and see and what those in power are doing.

you should know...you kept denktash in power for over 30 years.

What the guy that was ready to sign an agreement with Makarios but on Makarios' death the deal was somehow changed. Is that the guy you are talking about???

[Chimera]

OKAY BOYS ! I hear lots of pain and anger.

Now, have we all got it out of our system and can move on to the new society we all yearn for.

Who cares what a Turkish General says, who cares what any General says. The army is full of un-educated, testosterone fueled killer-gene carrying sub-humans.

Can we change things radically and stop being dictated to by this or that army?

We are free-thinking, free-willed down-trodden poor sods, who are fooled into perpetuating the waste of life the armies thrive on.

And, I think I may have PMT