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[zan]

Why my family was forced off the island....

That's a very lengthy exile you've had to endure Zanny... I don't know how you can cope!

Exile in the form of forced to leave and then a combination of the siege and fear, and circumstance.......If the egg doesn't hatch then there is no chicken.......

[Get Real!]

Why my family was forced off the island....

That's a very lengthy exile you've had to endure Zanny... I don't know how you can cope!

Exile in the form of forced to leave and then a combination of the siege and fear, and circumstance.......If the egg doesn't hatch then there is no chicken.......

Maybe this is one chicken that should've never hatched in the first place...

[zan]

Why my family was forced off the island....

That's a very lengthy exile you've had to endure Zanny... I don't know how you can cope!

Exile in the form of forced to leave and then a combination of the siege and fear, and circumstance.......If the egg doesn't hatch then there is no chicken.......

Maybe this is one chicken that should've never hatched in the first place...

I second that....That chicken, in the form of making my families life hell and driving them off the island and thousands more, should have been strangled at birth........

[BirKibrisli]

i was born in 1983 so a bad year but you people remember so far bakc in the past while there was a united cyprus... what was that like?

Those of us, unfortunates, born in the 50s, grew up with fear and uncertainty,palio...I cannot remember a time without the EOKA and the TMT in my life...EOKA we believed were going to kill us all and drink our blood for breakfast....But we had our own heroes,the TMT to save us from the big bad wolves.My father was a school teacher and the regional commander of the TMT...Our house was often used to hide guns (handguns,grenades,some rifles and a few sten guns)...I remember times where I had to go to bed surrounded by an arsenal of arms and ammunition,pretending to be asleep,while British soldiers searched our house...By 1963 my father had fallen out with the TMT and we were living in the old Walled section of Nicosia where the TCs had a strong enclave.
The fighting at the end of 1963 was a particularly terrifying times...I still remember the sounds of gunfire and those terrible bullets we called doom-doom (if I remember correctly)...There were a few weeks of critical times when we didnt know whether we would manage to hold the GCs attacking the enclave...On one occasion when Father went out to defend the walls he left me at home to guard my mother and 3 sisters...I was 12 years old and armed with just one hand grenade,and the idea was that if the GC irregulars came to the door I would gather the female folk around me and pull the pin...Believe me you are very lucky to have been born in the 80s...Cyprus was not a very pleasant place to be in the 50s,60s and 70s...

Such purely negative experiences were probably a direct result of being brought up by a TMT supporting father. Maybe nowhere would have been pleasant for you Birkibrisli, in the '50's, '60's and '70's.

So much for empathy,then,Oracle...
You can dismiss all my psychological angst in the first 17 years of my life,with a single line about my father's association with the TMT...
Totally ignoring the fact that we were absolutey convinced at the time our vey existance on Cyprus was in danger.And TMT stood between us and genocide...

So should I now dismiss your anguish by saying it was all the result of the GCs demand for ENOSIS? Or down the track, the Sampson coup???Shall I say you have noone else but yourselves to blame for the tragedy which engulfed our homeland??? I know you'd like me to but I will not oblige....When I read your post about your experiences in the war as a little girl I felt for you so much that there were tears in my eyes...That is the difference between us...As long as there are more Oracles than Birkibrislis in this world we shall never find a lasting and just solution to Cyprob...My despair is manifestly justifed...

The woman wrote to Amazon.com and complained that the book "Captain Corellis Mandolin" was not Greek enough Bir.......How do you expect empathy.

Did she really???/How do you know ,Zan???
You mean to say Oracle is not a rather devious invention of GR????
You mean she is a real person...God help us...

[zan]

i was born in 1983 so a bad year but you people remember so far bakc in the past while there was a united cyprus... what was that like?

Those of us, unfortunates, born in the 50s, grew up with fear and uncertainty,palio...I cannot remember a time without the EOKA and the TMT in my life...EOKA we believed were going to kill us all and drink our blood for breakfast....But we had our own heroes,the TMT to save us from the big bad wolves.My father was a school teacher and the regional commander of the TMT...Our house was often used to hide guns (handguns,grenades,some rifles and a few sten guns)...I remember times where I had to go to bed surrounded by an arsenal of arms and ammunition,pretending to be asleep,while British soldiers searched our house...By 1963 my father had fallen out with the TMT and we were living in the old Walled section of Nicosia where the TCs had a strong enclave.
The fighting at the end of 1963 was a particularly terrifying times...I still remember the sounds of gunfire and those terrible bullets we called doom-doom (if I remember correctly)...There were a few weeks of critical times when we didnt know whether we would manage to hold the GCs attacking the enclave...On one occasion when Father went out to defend the walls he left me at home to guard my mother and 3 sisters...I was 12 years old and armed with just one hand grenade,and the idea was that if the GC irregulars came to the door I would gather the female folk around me and pull the pin...Believe me you are very lucky to have been born in the 80s...Cyprus was not a very pleasant place to be in the 50s,60s and 70s...

Such purely negative experiences were probably a direct result of being brought up by a TMT supporting father. Maybe nowhere would have been pleasant for you Birkibrisli, in the '50's, '60's and '70's.

So much for empathy,then,Oracle...
You can dismiss all my psychological angst in the first 17 years of my life,with a single line about my father's association with the TMT...
Totally ignoring the fact that we were absolutey convinced at the time our vey existance on Cyprus was in danger.And TMT stood between us and genocide...

So should I now dismiss your anguish by saying it was all the result of the GCs demand for ENOSIS? Or down the track, the Sampson coup???Shall I say you have noone else but yourselves to blame for the tragedy which engulfed our homeland??? I know you'd like me to but I will not oblige....When I read your post about your experiences in the war as a little girl I felt for you so much that there were tears in my eyes...That is the difference between us...As long as there are more Oracles than Birkibrislis in this world we shall never find a lasting and just solution to Cyprob...My despair is manifestly justifed...

The woman wrote to Amazon.com and complained that the book "Captain Corellis Mandolin" was not Greek enough Bir.......How do you expect empathy.

Did she really???/How do you know ,Zan???
You mean to say Oracle is not a rather devious invention of GR????
You mean she is a real person...God help us...

They may have been separated at birth but she is for real....I will tell you about it sometime!!!!