Main_Source wrote:GarbitSch...
but the TMT actively pushed many TC, who were not being attacked, to move to the north as to enfore their ideology of partition.
The evidence does not support this claim. There is evidence that TMT took steps to block the return of TC refugees in some cases but not that they drove TC from their homes in the first place. That 'honour' belongs to GC and the fear and terror they created in the TC community wioth their acts.
My aunt (to give just on example) did not need any encouragement from TMT to feel unsafe and retreat to a TC enclave. All she needed was her personal experience of GC brutailty to TC to convice her of the need to flee her home to find saftey and security for her family.
The fact is that the vast majority of TC fled their homes after 63 because of GC violence and brutality shown towards TC communites. Violence and intimidation by bands of irregular and regular armed forces set up by anbd supported by leading members of the GC administarions upto and including Makarios himself. Go ahead and deny this was the case if you chose. We are used to such denials. We know what happened and so does the world if they only cared to study the international contemporary reporting of the times. If as so many GC seem to insist that justice will ultimately catch up with the wrong doers, then there are many GC alive today, some still in considerable positions of power in the RoC with much to fear and still to pay for these acts.