denizaksulu wrote:phoenix wrote:It seems to me, that what the TCs want is not so much Minority Rights, since this is established that they are justly served . . . .
BUT that they do
not want to see Majority Rights / Rule in the equation.
Phoenix mou, its not the 'majority rights' that is the problem, it is
'majority rule' which makes us see red. When the Pillars of Democracy was worded, they had not reckoned how GCs would use it..
Deniz, write to the US government and tell them to modify this paragraph:
These elements define the fundamental elements of all modern democracies, no matter how varied in history, culture, and economy. Despite their enormous differences as nations and societies, the essential elements of constitutional government--majority rule coupled with individual and minority rights, and the rule of law--can be found in Canada and Costa Rica, France and Botswana, Japan and India.
Tell them to add the one exception: "The evil Greek Cypriots"
TCs are not the only minority in Cyprus. Why don't the Armenians, Latins and Maronites have a problem with democracy in Cyprus?
The difference is that they respected the democratic principles including majority rule, and in the same way they got respect for their minority rights.
When was it that you respected the Majority rule right of Cypriots? When you oppressed the whole Cypriot people for 4 centuries, or when you sided with the colonialists to force on us some agreement that deprived Cyprus from this main democratic principle?
