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[demetriou_74]

I am looking for information about EOKA. a link or friendly chat will do. can anybody help?

[turkcyp]

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[achilles]

Have you checked "terrorist organizations" in the google?

Or he can google something like 'guerilla groups that emerged due to foreign oppression and fanaticism pushed them over the limit in specific circumstances'.

Would you be in favour of a British rule on the island, my friend? Personally, i wouldnt. EOKA launched a fair struggle but lost it somewhere in the way, with the help of a really unfortunate Greek junta.

And i believe that there should be a distinction between EOKA and EOKA B, when referring to the specific group.

[cannedmoose]

That's probably the fairest characterisation of EOKA that I've seen written by a Greek-Cypriot Achilles... congrats

[achilles]

That's probably the fairest characterisation of EOKA that I've seen written by a Greek-Cypriot Achilles... congrats

Thank you kindly cannedmoose (love your username ). And i am a Greek-Greek although i do not draw any distinctions between Greeks and GCs.

[magikthrill]

in the begining of the cyprus conspiracy there is a mention that more GCs were killed by EOKA than TCs. is this true?

also as far as TC policemen being shot this was because the GCs who were policemen were also being killed by EOKA members so they refused to take these positions anymore. is this true too?

[garbitsch]

And i am a Greek-Greek although i do not draw any distinctions between Greeks and GCs.

May Kifeas not see this post!

[Main_Source]

Magikthrill...the reason why TC policemen were being shot was because the Brtish sacked many GC policeman and replaced them with TC. Many TC were elevated to high positions in the British police force in Cyprus and therefore seen as conspring with the British. To EOKA, they were killing policeman who were disrupting the EOKA struggle (and arresting many young EOKA members, who were barely out of school and led to be hung by the British). To the TC community, EOKA were killing TC.

[Main_Source]

...this was all part of the classic 'divide and conquer' tactic often used by the British and America today.

[erolz]

...this was all part of the classic 'divide and conquer' tactic often used by the British and America today.

EOKA launched a terrorist (gurellia if you prefer) attack against the British. The British onbviously sought to counter this attack - at times using harsh and extreme and heavy handed measures undoubtedly - but then fighting terrorism is no easy or pleasant affair. This is not a justification of British rule in Cyprus or the emasure they took fighting EOKA - just a recognition of the reality of those times. That they could not use GC recruited police to help in the fighting of this EOKA attack was based on the fact than some such GC police were either members of EOKA themselves or sympathetic to it. That they turned to TC to help fill these positions and counter the EOKA threat, which was as much a threat to TC community as it was to British rule in Cyprus, is inevitable. Not so much a case of divide and rule but of the enemy of enemy is my friend in this senario.