BirKibrisli wrote:Piratis wrote:Then from that little seed we should grow a big and strong tree which will withstand all the natural and artificial forces which will be thrown at it
Bir, you talk as if the seed is irrelevant to what it will grow out of it. The seed is
the most important thing. You put the seed of democracy and human rights, and what will grow out of it is peace, unity and prosperity. You put a seed of human rights violations, segregation and discrimination, and what will grow out of it is animosity, conflicts and bloodshed.
Please tell me in a
practical way how you see a bad solution that will benefit TCs on our loss grow to somehting better? The TCs will one day come and say: "We don't want 50% of power and 30% of land anymore"? Please tell me you are kidding me Bir. That is never going to happen. Like you said the TCs don't care about what is just or fair, they care what is the best deal for themselves.
Bir excellent posts, I have to give credit where credit is due, your methodology is both clear and precise but unfortunately it fall on deaf ears, you cannot agree zilch with people who not see you as equals who do not want to share but only use their majority status to bash you into a pulp so that you disappear. I commend you on your patience and for reflecting the TCs viewpoint but in time maybe even now you have realized there is no way we can find common ground to find a solution.
VP, what Bir supports is a unitary state with equal
citizens, democracy and human rights. He thinks that all these will grow from some bad "solution". Why don't you tell us VP that
if we don't like it we should not sign it? Or you wait to say this the very next moment after we make the mistake and sing? We are not going to fall in that trap mate. Unfortunately for you we are not idiots.
I agree Piratis,that if we could plant the seed you are talking about,things would be much better much quicker..But the people you need to plant this seed are not ready to do it...They want to plant another seed,let it grow a bit,and than bud a graft on it...This is the reality...We have to work with this...
Bir, cut the metaphors please.
Who and
how will "bud a graft" on the agreements that would benefit the TCs on our loss? When the TCs will have the
better deal for themselves why would they want to ever give it up?
But I can see the problem very clearly now...Total lack of TRUST...Each side is very suspicious of the other's motives...
Bir, I am afraid you are confusing "suspicion" with "certainty". The TCs supposedly
suspect that the "evil" GCs will harm them somehow if they accept democracy and human right for all.
On the other hand we know with
certainty that TCs want to take away our lands and legalize the violation of our rights since they put a gun on our head and demands from us to
SIGN our lands and rights away.
We can also suspect many things based on the "evil TC" theories, just like TCs can suspect things based on the "evil GC" theories. E.g. we can suspect that once some solution is found, then the TCs will again start some conflict in order to use it as an excuse for Turkey to invade again and take an even bigger part of Cyprus this time. This is a
suspicion which is equivalent to the TC suspicions, but we are not using our suspicions as arguments, because suspicions can be limited only by ones imagination.
So stop confusing the arbitrary and limitless suspicions that the TCs (and GCs) might have, with the
certainty of the fact that TCs want us to
sign away our lands and rights.
We need a period of grieving and healing to get us out of the denial and anger and depression,and onto acceptance,forgiveness,and reconciliation...This is teh vital step which is missing in Cyprus...Without it we can talk about democracy,human rights,peace,justice..but none of it will come out way...
Earlier I proposed this "solution": <<A "solution" where the GCs would get all their rights and lands back (and even more), but TCs would not get any representation, neither they will be allowed to contact international trade. These rights will be given to TCs only if / when we would forgive and accept them.>>
You said such solution would be terrible. Why? Answer this question, and then you will realize why violating the human rights of GCs and stealing their lands can not possibly be the way to achieve what you want to achieve, but
exactly the opposide
Bir, again you fail to see a hugely important difference:
The TCs appropriate blame in order to
use it as an excuse for
even more crimes against us today and in the future.
What I, and most GCs do, is simply to
reply to the distorted history some TCs are trying to present in order to restore historical truth. We are
not trying to use history as an excuse to punish TCs today or in the future.
Personally I never denied the suffering of TCs, and if the TCs didn't try to use their past suffering as an excuse to commit even more crimes and illegalities against us, then I wouldn't need to remind them the other 99% of the historical facts they conveniently choose to forget.
The pattern of blame appropriation in the forum is very clear:
GC: Lets finally have peace, democracy and human rights for all.
TC: No. You are evil and we do not trust you because in 63-74 you did such and such. You are guilty and you will be punished.
GC: What about your crimes between 58-74? What about 74-2008? What about 1571-1878? If we are going to appropriate blame based on past events then obviously you are the ones who have most of it. So how can you demand our punishment?
So it is clear who
initiates the blame game. Thats the ones who want to use the past as an excuse for even more crimes today and in the future.