Piratis wrote:There is nothing to hide about our desire for freedom. Absolutely nothing wrong with it. The ones who should be ashamed is you, who butchered Cypriots by the 100s and 1000s simply because we, like the rest of Greeks, wanted to be free from your oppressive rule and create a free state.
During the Greek War of Independence in 1821, the Ottoman authorities feared that Greek Cypriots would rebel again. Archbishop Kyprianos, a powerful leader who worked to improve the education of Greek Cypriot children, was accused of plotting against the government. Kyprianos, his bishops, and hundreds of priests and important laymen were arrested and summarily hanged or decapitated on July 9, 1821.
We had every right to revolt and seek our freedom from foreign empires, either you were the rulers or the British.
In the 1950s we revolted against the British, we didn't touch you. And yet, thinking that you are still our masters who can impose your rule over us, as if we were still your slaves, you attacked us again in 1958 with the aim to help the British to oppress our revolution and keep Cyprus enslaved.
And then in the conflicts that followed your attack of 1958, where you killed 100s of innocent GC people, you come here to pretend to be the innocent victim because you had losses as well, forgetting that it is you in fact who started the conflict.
I again repeat that I recognize your losses in that conflict. It is time you recognize our losses during that time as well and the fact that you started the conflict in 1958, and stop pretending to be the innocent victim that needed to be saved by a turkish invasion that killed 1000s of people (many times more than any side lost in the inter-communal conflict) and ethnically cleanse 100s of thousands.