by theodore » Thu Oct 04, 2007 7:56 pm
[quote="T_C"]It was a GC who mentioned rapes! :wink: :P :P :P :P :lol:[/quote]
How rape how let us see what the WORLD knows and things about the Cypriot problem
European Court of Human Rights’ Judgment (10 May 2001)
The European Commission of Human Rights had examined the issue of the missing persons after four applications by Cyprus against Turkey (Applications Nos. 6780/ 74, 6950/ 75, 8007/ 77, 25781/ 94). The reports of the European Commission of Human Rights adopted in 1976, 1983 and 1999 respectively had stressed that Turkey violated fundamental articles of the European Convention on Human Rights.
In the Fourth Interstate Application of Cyprus against Turkey (Application No. 25781/94), the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled, on 10 May 2001, that Turkey’s authorities had never investigated claims by relatives that missing persons had disappeared after being detained, in circumstances where there was real cause to fear for their welfare.
Moreover, the ECHR ruled that the Turkish authorities’ failure to investigate effectively, with an aim to clarify, the whereabouts and fate of Greek Cypriot missing persons, who disappeared in life-threatening circumstances, was a continuing violation of the procedural obligation under Article 2 of the Convention to protect the right to life. Furthermore, the Court ruled that the failure of the authorities of the Republic of Turkey was a continuing violation of Article 5 of the Convention in respect of any missing persons who were arguably in custody at the time they disappeared. The Court concluded that the silence of the authorities… in the face of the real concerns of the relatives of the missing persons attains a level of severity which can only be categorized as inhuman treatment within the meaning of Article 3.
Proposal by Amnesty International concerning the Cypriot Missing Persons
In August 1996, Amnesty International submitted to the United Nations a proposal to establish an effective commission of inquiry to investigate disappearances, missing persons, and deliberate and arbitrary killings in Cyprus. Based on the fact that the Committee on Missing Persons failed to fulfil its mandate by not establishing the fate of even a single missing person, Amnesty International recommended that the Secretary – General should immediately establish the aforementioned committee of inquiry, which would fully satisfy the international standards in investigating the various cases.
Furthermore, Amnesty International recommended that the parties participating in this commission should ensure that those responsible for these crimes are brought to justice, and that the victims or relatives are fairly and adequately compensated.
American missing persons of the Turkish Invasion
Among these missing after the Turkish invasion are five American citizens of Cypriot origin whose cases have been submitted to the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) in Cyprus. Based on an Act of Congress dated October 19, 1994 concerning United States citizens missing in Cyprus, signed by the President of the USA, the White House mandated the Department of State to carry out an investigation into their fate, a task that was assigned to Ambassador Robert Dillon. In May 1998, President Clinton signed and submitted to Congress the President’s Report to Congress on the investigation of the whereabouts of the U.S. Citizens who had been missing form Cyprus since 1974. According to the Dillon Report, the investigation fully ascertained the fate of one of the five missing American citizens, Andreas Kassapis, whose remains were identified after DNA testing and were returned to his family for burial on 22 June 1998.
At the end of the Dillon Report it is clearly stated that the U.S. Government will continue to pursue any additional leads it receives on their [US Citizens] fate. Based on this statement, the Cyprus Government has repeatedly requested the full implementation of the provisions of the 1994 Act of Congress concerning the remaining missing US citizens in Cyprus and the completion of the investigation of the four pending cases so that their fate is determined, as in the case of Kassapis, on the basis of concrete and convincing evidence.
Illegal Demographic Changes
» Turkey's Illegal Policy of Colonization in Cyprus
Turkey's Illegal Policy of Colonization in Cyprus
In the part of Cyprus occupied by the Turkish army, Turkey’s Government has, since 1974, implemented a policy of systematic colonization in order to change the demographic character of the island. According to reports confirmed in both the Turkish and Turkish Cypriot press, these settlers come from the Turkish mainland and are of Turkish citizenship. Today in the occupied part of Cyprus there are about 115,000 settlers. There is of course, also, a presence of 35,000 Turkish occupation troops. Over the same period, a total of 55,000 Turkish Cypriots emigrated from Cyprus. In fact the number of Turkish Cypriots in the occupied part of Cyprus has actually fallen from 116,000 in 1974 down to 88,000 at present. A natural population increase would have brought this figure up to 153,578.
The main Turkish objectives in adopting this policy of colonization in the occupied part of Cyprus appear to be the following:
(1) To distort the population balance on the Island between Turks and Greeks in order to attempt and justify the claims of the Turkish side regarding the territorial and constitutional aspects of the Cyprus Problem.
(2) To shift the balance of political power in the Turkish occupied part of Cyprus and ensure that the Turkish Cypriot leadership is kept in line with the policy of the Turkish Government.
(3) To influence elections held in the occupied areas in favour of the Turkish Cypriot nationalist leadership and thus maintain an obstacle to a solution of the Cyprus problem.
(4) To provide additional trained reserves for the Turkish military forces in Cyprus.
(5) To change the population balance in the entire island so that in the long run Turkish Cypriots and Turkish settlers outnumber the Greek Cypriots.
Turkey’s policy of colonization in Cyprus is contrary to the 1960 Treaty of Establishment of the Republic of Cyprus, signed between the United Kingdom, Greece, Turkey and the Republic of Cyprus. Annex D to the Treaty governs Cyprus’ citizenship and makes it impossible and unlawful for either Community to upset the demographic balance by bringing in large numbers of ethnic Turks or Greeks and contend that they were of Greek Cypriot or Turkish Cypriot descent and therefore entitled to come to Cyprus. Section 4, paragraph. 7, imposes quotas regarding the grant of citizenship to persons who had emigrated to Greece, Turkey or the British Commonwealth having before 1955 been resident in Cyprus, or who were descended from Ottoman subjects resident in Cyprus in 1914.
The fact that the occupied part of Cyprus has been subjected to systematic settlement from Turkey was reported on by Mr. Alfred Cuco, Rapporteur of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly's Committee on Migration Refugees and Demography, 28 February 1992, AS/PR (43) 39. Currently, pursuant to a Motion for an Order, the Committee is again examining the situation created by the massive influx of settlers and Mr. Jaakko Laakso, the new Rapporteur, is expected to report on the issue.