Insan wrote:Kifeas, what was the target of Akritas Plan? The target of the Akritas Plan was to create impressions in the eyes of international community that TCs are trouble makers, a minority that blocks the will of GC "nation". The aim of the plan is to degrade TCs to a minority status by creating impressions that TCs are an intansigence, trouble maker minority. Of course TCs wouldn't submit the oppressions and violent tactics of the Enosists. Of course they would have reacted and struggled; fought against it.
The ones who prepared the plan had thought that the oppressed TCs would have left Cyprus(Though some of them left Cyprus with fianacial help of Makarios) and the others would have either submited to the GC rule or executed.
What was the Akritas Plan if it is not for the extermination of TCs?
However things didn't go how they schemed.
Hi Insan,
Where have you been?
I wish your newly chosen avatar will not reflect to a lack of seriousness on your behalf, at least from now on.
I didn’t take it quite right. Do you ask me what was the target of the Akritas Plan, or you ask me and simultaneously answer your question on my behalf?
The aims of the plan are to facilitate the abolition of the treaty of guarantee and to facilitate the proposed amendment of the constitution, which in its turn will facilitate the exercising of the perceived right of self-determination, primarily if not exclusively, through the use of political and diplomatic means. The use of force is not excluded but is meant to be used only to the minimum possible level and only should the TCs resign to violent acts as a form of reaction against the stated aims of the plan.
It is clear that the use of force (violence) was not welcomed, as this would worsen the climate that was absolutely necessary for the promotion of the aims of the plan. It is clearly stated that, although undesirable, it should be used to suppress in a short period of time any serious violent actions by TCs. Even isolated cases of sporadic violence and resistance were ruled out from being answered by GC forces, should they were evaluated as not possessing a serious threat.
Obviously this is miles apart from what Bananiot constantly claims, that the aim of the plan was to exterminate the TC community from Cyprus.
The primary target of the plan is not to create the impression to the eyes of the international community that TCs are troublemakers, as you mention above. This is a secondary target that would only be aimed if TCs resort to violent actions in order to obstruct the primary target, which is the one I stayed above.
It is not evident in the plan that “the ones who prepared the plan had thought that the oppressed TCs would have left Cyprus,” as you claim. The plan didn’t provide for such as solution. It is true that later on, in the years after, a number of TCs (a relatively small one) had chosen to emigrate from Cyprus and that Makarios in many cases facilitated their departure through economic assistance.
Further more, what you say in your question/answer posting, that those TCs who did not emigrate “would have either submitted to the GC rule or executed,” is also not mentioned in the plan nor there is any indirect evidence to suggest it. Remember! We are discussing the Akritas plan. It is clear that what had followed during the 1963-64 inter-communal conflict, mainly as it relates to the use of force, has almost nothing to do with the provisions of the plan, as such.
Conclusion.
a.) Your analysis of the Akritas plan, as above, is faulty.
b.) Bananiot’s allegation that the aim of the Akritas plan was to exterminate (clean out) the TC community from Cyprus in one night, which is done in order to discredit Papadopoullos as a chauvinist, a murderer and a Turks hater, is totally distorted and constitutes an unprecedented lie. I am still waiting for his reply to single out any paragraph that suggests his allegations.
I stated before that I do not agree with the approach taken by the authors of the Akritas plan, in order to promote changes to the constitution. I accept changes were necessary but could have been achieved with patience and consultations with the TC community and not unilaterally.
