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[donyork]

I am very heartened to see that the British memorial to be erected in the old British cemetery in Kyrenia next April — the ending, repeat ending, of the four-year confllict in Cyprus between 1955 and 1959 — has not been the cause of protest in the south from the usual suspects. That is very encouraging, and the sign perhaps that this episode in the history of Cyprus is at last being seen in its historical context — a civilised reponse, and I for one congratulate those Greek Cypriots who have seemingly recognised that both sides in that conflict are equally entitled to honour their own dead, most of them on the British side the young whose lives were cut short without any of them knowing why. It would be a grand gesture of the part of the South if the government was to lay a wreath on the memorial, though given that the memorial happens to be situated in the North — in a British cemetery established in 1878 when there was no ‘North’ — may understandably make that difficult, for other reasons. Anyway, a cause for common commemoration, rather than as so often one for perpetuation of division. Good news, I think. The website, if you want to look at it, is www.britishcyprusmemorial.org — and very dignified it is. Just as it should be in fact.

[Get Real!]

Hmm, let’s have a look at this…

“Almost all the dead remain buried at the British military cemetery at Wayne's Keep now in the UN buffer-zone which lies between the Republic of Cyprus in the South and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus in the North.”

http://www.britishcyprusmemorial.org/in ... out/where/

Sevice men ignorant of international law? Interesting!

Who is organising the memorial?

“Friends of the Cyprus Memorial, which includes the Royal British Legion, and the president of which is The Lord Maginnis of Drumglass, a former officer with the Ulster Defence Regiment (now the Royal Irish Regiment)
The chairman of the management committee is former MP Michael Stephen, a barrister specialising in international affairs who saw service with The Life Guards.”

http://www.britishcyprusmemorial.org/in ... t/whoarewe

Friends of Cyprus indeed! Lord Maginnis? Michael Stephen? These morally corrupt individuals are the ENEMIES of Cyprus not friends, therefore…

On behalf of the online Greek Cypriot community kindly accept my MIDDLE FINGER as a token of our appreciation of your criminal organizers and their illegal "memorial".

[repulsewarrior]

cheers dude, i have looked at your web site, and i support this effort.

Sgt Samuel McGaw, Black Watch: the only VC buried in Cyprus, curious, how did he earn a VC?

hopefully, one day the memorial will be resited. hopefully one day we will all be able to remember that men should not fight themselves, but real enemies, like Hunger, Disaster, Ignorance, and Disease.

[Get Real!]

cheers dude, i have looked at your web site, and i support this effort.

Sgt Samuel McGaw, Black Watch: the only VC buried in Cyprus, curious, how did he earn a VC?

hopefully, one day the memorial will be resited. hopefully one day we will all be able to remember that men should not fight themselves, but real enemies, like Hunger, Disaster, Ignorance, and Disease.

That’s because you’re a short-sighted idiot. Here are some questions to ask yourself… (and them!)

Did they get the permission of the RoC?

Do they have official British government approval for this?

Is it by any coincidence that the chosen site is in the illegally occupied area of Cyprus?

Is this not a suspicious time to make such a bold move?

Is it just a coincidence that two of the “organizers” (Lord Maginnis and Michael Stephen) are staunch supporters (propagandists) of Turkey?

Ding-dong…

[repulsewarrior]

...this may be so GR, but for the sake of the dead.

and i do hope that in the future the memorial can be resited.

frankly the site is careful about the politics, and in this regard, unless you can enlighten me as to specifics, correct.

[repulsewarrior]

...i think GR the most revealing question would be, did they seek or recieve permission from the so called KKTC.

[Get Real!]

...this may be so GR, but for the sake of the dead.

and i do hope that in the future the memorial can be resited.

frankly the site is careful about the politics, and in this regard, unless you can enlighten me as to specifics, correct.

This is not about the dead, but about those unscrupulous Turkophile old geezers that are unfortunately still alive and still hacking at Cyprus… what more evidence do you want?

[Get Real!]

...i think GR the most revealing question would be, did they seek or recieve permission from the so called KKTC.

They already work for them...

Stephen Michael or as he is sometimes known Michael Stephen, works for the infamous "BOW GROUP" hired by Turkey and/or the “TRNC” to help them out with their poor image and propaganda...

http://www.bowgroup.org/

...and as their motto says... “The Bow Group is the oldest - and one of the most influential - centre-right Think-Tanks in Britain”

So sites like…

http://www.mediaprof.org/tcvoices/ukhist.html

..are nothing but paid garbage propaganda by corrupt and immoral British politicians who have been given free holiday homes by the corrupt “TRNC” no doubt on Greek Cypriot land!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/cyprus/story/ ... 69,00.html

[Oracle]

This is clearly a private venture done for political gain as a collaboration between the self-interested parties (named) and the "trnc", and is in no way endorsed by the UK government, who would be committing an act of such outstanding faux pax-fery that they would never be able to show their faces in any EU meetings by allowing the erection on stolen, illegally occupied EU-land of something which is a political club foot.

The fact this thread has appeared twice in such a short period of time, suggests the OP is desperate to advertise it as much as possible and confirms the suspect nature of the reason for constructing this extinct mammoth of a "memorial".

Shame and disgust are the only memories that will be aroused in this way and I pity the families of any connected with this history, that they are being used in this propagandist way.

Immorality repeated ad infinitum ....

[donyork]

Oh, come off it Oracle. How can the old British cemetery in Kyrenia, established in 1878 when the British took over Cyprus from the Turks, be ‘stolen, illegally-occupied EU land’. And who is the propagandist here? I have been a member for four years, and the author of only 59 posts. Oracle — ‘one step ahead of the Turks’ — has been a member for only eight months — and posted 8,144.