To preserve his position and to continue his activities,
Makarios was willing to sacrifice seventy per cent of the Greek Cypriot
population (only thirty per cent were AKEL) and entire anti-Communist
Turkish Cypriot population. Ioannides asserted Greek Cypriots in
National Guard realized these facts and had begged motherland for
chance to act against Makarios; General claimed that he only assisted
after being presented with a fait accompli.
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/96606.pdf
I can't undestand why anyone would defend some false priest who was very selfish and had only his own interests at heart and was even very willing to sucrifice 70% of his own people just so that he can preserve his position. The only safe people on the island were the bloody communists.
Anyone in their right minds would condemn such a false religious and selfish man to hell.