magikthrill wrote:Viewpoint wrote:](Read the book the Genocide Files by Harry Scott Gibbons)
What this book about. I've heard alot about it.
It is a book by a British Journalist called Harry Scott Gibbons about the Cyprus problem. Here is the jacket blurb from 1997 edition of the book (there is a newer updated version now)
THE GENOCIDE FILES by
HARRY SCOTT GIBBONS
The Genocide Files is a thorough research into the so-called "Cyprus problem."
It exposes the bias of the United Nations Organisation towards the Cyprus Turks, and its apparent inability to protect them against their more numerous and militarily more powerful co-inhabitants of the island, the Greek Cypriots.
The book describes how the Greek fixation with Enosis - union with Greece - led to a one-sided war against the Turks and the brutal massacres of their men, women and children.
Harry Scott Gibbons explodes the myth that Greeks and Turks had lived happily together from independence in 1960 until 1974 when the Turkish armed forces, without reason or provocation, attacked Cyprus and divided the island between the two races. And he explains how the Turkish intervention came only after the mainland Greek-led coup which caused a war of Greek against Greek in which 2,000 Greeks and Greek Cypriots died in five days, the reason Turkey called its action the "Peace Operation."
The operation also discovered, in a series of secret documents captured by the Turkish forces, a cold-blooded plan to wipe out the entire Turkish-Cypriot population, documents that the author calls The Genocide Files.
His book does not make for pleasant reading. An authentic tale of brutality never does.
Here is all the horror of obsession gone mad, the murders, the massacres, the rapes. And the mass graves where bulldozers ripped and tore the victims' bodies out of all recognition.
The author's research has convinced him that Cypriot Greeks and Turks never have and never will be able to live in peace and harmony. The "Cyprus problem" was solved, he says, in 1974, when the Turkish Cypriots achieved their own nationhood.
The book has also a fascinating account of the original Greek Colonels' Junta, from 1967 to 1973, the wars against Italy, Germany and the Greek Communists, and why they decided the military should take over Greece.
About the author.
Harry Scott Gibbons was born in the small coalmining village of Lochore, in Fife, Scotland, of Irish background.
After service in the Royal Air Force, he studied agriculture at Aberdeen University and economics in Copenhagen, Denmark.
His journalist career began as a greyhound racing reporter, then he moved to Beirut, Lebanon, with £10 in his pocket and stayed to become one of London's Fleet Street's best-known Middle East Foreign Correspondents.
He has lived and worked in the Arab World, Cyprus, Turkey, Greece and the United States, and speaks Danish and Arabic.
At various times in his life Gibbons has been a farm and forestry worker, an air steward, ship's steward and train steward.
A staunch anti-Communist, he is one of the very few Cold War double agents the British Government has ever admitted worked for it.
Just for the record I have an uncle who has helped Mr Gibbons in the production and publication of this book and they are good and old friends. I have also met the authour and had dinner with him at my uncles house. Serveral of my relatives are referred to briefly in the book (though not my aunt who lost her husband that I have mentioned here before).
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