by Nikitas » Wed Jan 02, 2008 12:16 pm
It is easy to be "an eyewitness" in a chosen time frame, forgetting what went on before and after the events you choose to portray.
I lived the events of 1958, when the TCs had the upper hand, protected by the British, acting with full immunity when they attaced our areas in Nicosia and elsewhere.
As for the massacre of the three villages, I assume the reference is made to the Maratha Sandalaris slaughter. AT THE VERY SAME TIME that was going on TCs were busy killing all the men of the Afania area. They could not have known of the events 30 miles away. It was parallel and simultaneous sllaughter. When all mass graves are opened, and all DNA tests finished we will get to a final score, and it will not be at all exhonerating for TCs.
Will you people then decide to teach that final score in YOUR schools? Do you now teach what went on in Karpasia AFTER the Turkish forces prevailed in September 1974? That was a time when both the National Guard and EOKA had been fully defeated and you had the local population at your mercy, Mehamet is the word if I recall it right. Thousands were killed in those days of victory. And there are foreign, eyewitness accounts for that period too.