shahmaran wrote:Nikitas wrote:Sinve you are all busy talking massacres I will add my little bit.
In July 1974, simultaneously, at opposite ends of the old Nicosia-Famagusta road two massacres were taking place. One was in the villages of Tochni, Jiaos and Maratha, carried out by Greek Cypriots who collected the men of the villages and executed them in cold blood. At the other end, in Afania, Turkish Cypriot gunmen were doing the exact same thing to Greek Cypriot civilians. The peace operation had been going on for several days. No one prevented the massacre of Afania.
Want to go to earlier times? In 1958 there was a massacre in Omorphita in which dozens of Greek Cypriots were hacked to death. It is no accident that in 1963 the first big hit was on Omorphita. I am sure the people who fought each other in 1963 knew each other by name because they were the same type of person.
These were events that happen in every civil war. But in our case each side thinks that its losses are unique in the world. THey are not. The "peace operation" though is something totally different. The uncalled for violence and the fact that not one Greek Cypriot participating in massacres was arrested and brought to trial shows that it was not a peace operation. It was out and out conquest of a piece of CYprus and the later developments of colonizaton and militarization prove it.
I believe the mass graves contained not only men, but women children and old men too, so it wasn't just a case of eliminating the number of potential fighters, rather a total eradication of the population at that location due to their ethnicity.
This is what genocide is!
And no one really knows where they would have stopped if Turkey had not intervened...
Shami, how many times must we point out casualty numbers for you to understand what REALLY happened and quit posting unfounded crap?
Minor Atrocities of the Twentieth Century
http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstatx.htm
1. Cyprus (1955-59)
o WPA3
UK: 142
Turkish Cypriots: 84
Greek Cypriots: 278
o B&J: 100 UK + 500 Cypriots
o 11 Nov. 2000 Times [London]: 100 British soldiers
2. Cyprus (1963-67)
o B&J: 1,000
3. Cyprus (1974)
o Clodfelter: 4,500-6,000 Greeks mil/civ k + 2,000-3,000 missing/presumed d. + 300 Turkish mil. k. [= 6,800-9,300]
o Eckhardt: 3,000 civ. + 2,000 mil. = 5,000 (1975-85)
o B&J: 5,000 (1974-78 )
o John J. Mearsheimer (Aug. 1990 Atlantic Monthly): 1,500 to 5,000
o Singer:
Turkey: 1000
Cyprus: 500