repulsewarrior wrote:zan, i respect your opinion because it is honest and it is clear. The world looses Cyprus, a place where Cypriots have lived from the advent of Humanity. It gains nothing better. Are you suggesting that the Turkish Army should pay for the lives and the living lost of one third of the island's population? Do you think that the plunder of this island will abate with its division into two mutually exclusive parts? And the 'point of a gun' will that end too?
there is mass movements in my Cyprus, true. People who choose to return to their homes as communities and settlers who choose to live as Citizens, into places they can call homes instead of houses. at a great cost, and with suffering both societies demonstrate the humility of having Grace, as well as the will to pursue their own happiness. most importantly this payment of money and blood, for the Freedom they gain from their own sacrifice assures that as Cypriots we remain distinct as a People, as a State, representing ourselves as the island dwellers, placing the interests of the island first.
in any case, you get what you pay for.
ps. i don't care for many political leaders (although i recognise that it is a very tough job), George Bush is another leader where similar eulogies will be written.
I am saying that Cypriots and Turkey and Greece should pay...Why did you single out Turkey?
The Turkish Cypriot people are responsible for the North and the only reason that Turkey is all powerful in the eyes of the GCs is because we as TCs have had no other viable options. We owe a great deal to Turkey and we also have a problem with them. We need to iron out those problems but never forget what they did for us. That is legacy and we will deal with it.
The reason this property issue is still a big problem is because of politics and nothing else. If the politicians had left the people to sell or not sell or even swap then the problem would be so small that it would not matter in a solution. It was the "RoC" government that lied to it's people and told them that it was illegal to do either...It lied because it could not pass the law and still have the world convinced that it represented the whole of the Cypriot people. Any way...That to one side....
Why do you see the TCs living in the North as plundering the country. We will live as Cypriots in our own areas whether it is as partners of a single country or as two separate states. You have your immigrants and we have ours....I think at the last count you have about a 100,000 more than we do. We will evolve and take from them parts of their culture, as you have done in the South, and instill in them parts of ours. The Cypriot that some are trying to sell us on this forum is just a myth and those times have gone...We look at the humble donkey as a protected species now and not as the preverbal work horse that it used to be...We are no longer poor farmers and Cyprus is not the idyllic escape from the 20th century that it was. It is a thriving 21st century island with all the mod cons. We need to keep moving forward and not back into cantons and minorities because all that has changed if not never existed. All that needs to change is the constitution....
