Bananiot wrote:Interesting work samarkeolog. I will try to find the exact date the attack at the Limassol District offices of AKEL took place. In the meantime I have spoken to author Costas Sophocleous, ex Secretary General of the Paphos District of AKEL but he could not remember the exact date off hand.
Cheers. I've e-mailed the Limassol District Office. Hopefully someone there remembers something!
However, he told me some interesting stories.
The attack took place after independence and he pointed his finger at the parastate, headed at the time by the leader of the "Organisation" Yiorgadgis and his lackeys (one of them later became President, with the backing of AKEL!).
He also told me of an official visit to Cyprus by a Bulgarian Minister, around 1964, whom he invited to Paphos. During a meeting of the District Secretariat with the Bulgarian Minister in Chloraka, a known member of the "Organisation" whose name begins with a P, through an ignited dynamite stick in the room. Someone managed to kick it away into the yard, just before it exploded.
Such was the state of affairs back then. The nationalists from both sides looked towards enclaving the people in their cause. In this endeavour they utilised all the dirty tricks of the book and targetting members of their own community was quite "normal" at the time.
Yeah, sadly, as you say, that was quite "normal" then.