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[Bananiot]

This is an excerpt from an article written by Defkalion in "Egertirion Salpisma"

"Of course we are saddened when we find ourselves in the position to punish our own, be they leftists or others. We are engaging a national struggle and we are not allowed to permit little people that have offered nothing so far to our struggle to undermine it on the basis of a plan and to attack the real patriots. When advice and warning bear no fruit then the rotten has to be cut down. The price to pay for treason is death".

So, Kifeas this is your icon! His first victim was Ilias Tofaris, a young AKEL member from Koma tou Yialou who was shot in the back along with his brother Nicos. The same evening 2 AKEL members were brutaly murdered in Lisi. More followed in the months and years that followed.

In its 8th edition "Egertirion Salpisma" carries another article by Papadopoulos. Here is what your hero says: "The treacherous leadership of the communists is getting very audacious. In Koma tou Yialou and Lisi the fanatics of AKEL tried to take off the masks of the EOKA fighters who went to these villages to advice people. The provocation of the communists was such that the fighters were forced to shoot the communists".

"Egertirion Salpisma" was reprinted in 1999 and you win no prizes by guessing who wrote the prologue of the new edition.

Kifeas wants me to "speak out publicly and not just hide behind anonymity in this forum and spread slanders". He then takes it for granted that "I will not do such a thing because I already know that I have absolutely no evidence".

What Kifeas wants me to ... declare publicly has been written already in numerous newspaper articles and also in books. Papadopoulos himself has never denied his role in EOKA and of course he has never denied he was "Defkalion". Yet Kifeas knows better and is ready to put his head on the line that Papadopoulos is just an angel. This is a fanatical approach that denies historical facts.

[Rahmi]

[quote="RAFAELLA"]
Once again another person who blames the Gcs for voting No Though you fail to mention or even realise WHY the Gcs voted agaist this solution. ...if it was fair then I, as a refugee, together with thousands of other Gc would have voted Yes.
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I guess the reason why GC's voted against the Annan Plan was that the plan did not give them the whole island.

When one side wants the whole it is pretty difficult to solve the problem whatever the other side does. I mean except for disappearing, which is what the GC's want from TC's.

[Viewpoint]

LAND, PROPERTY, WEALTH, CONTROL, POWER, TC A MINORITY, NORTH, THE WHOLE ISLAND, TCs DEAD......

[MicAtCyp]

but you can tell the quality of the master by his ... dog.

So Bananiot, what kind of dog do you have? If you don't have one Piratis can give you his.
Or perhaps are you the dog barking to some masters?

[gabaston]

im going to bed :

[MicAtCyp]

Give him a dog.
A smal ugly dog.
He is going to raise it and love it,
And he is going to name it Anan.

Congrats Banan. Long live your dog.

[Bananiot]

Here is another piece by the man everyone loves to hate, Loucas Charalambous, in today's Cyprus mail.

"IN HIS BOOK The First Partition, Makarios Droushiotis reveals, among other things, that the bomb explosion at the Marcos Drakos statue at Paphos Gate in Nicosia on December 3, 1963, was the work of the Akritas organisation. Akritas was the paramilitary group set up by the late Archbishop Makarios, which had as its leader Polycarpos Yiorkadjis and as its deputy leader Tassos Papadopoulos.

This was admitted by members of the organisation, and confirmed by an officer of the Cyprus army, Chrysafis Chrysafi, who said he had heard Yiorkadjis giving the relevant orders. I had also been told about this, some 16 years ago, by people who were involved in the case. During the presentation of the above-mentioned book in Nicosia, which was attended by the former foreign minister of Greece, Theodoros Pangalos, a member of the audience stood up and offered his testimony, as regards another event that took place during that period.

He had recently met up with some old friends, with whom he had been at the Ayios Kasianos school (an area adjacent to the Turkish Cypriot quarter of old Nicosia) during the period in question. At this meeting, he said, one of his old school-mates confessed that he had started the fire at their school in 1963. However, at the time, the police had tried to blame the fire on the Turkish Cypriots by saying they had found in the schoolyard two butts of Turkish cigarettes.

For the first time, there is testimony that these criminal acts (not to mention the bombing of the Bayraktari an Omeriye mosques in 1962) were the work of the Akritas organisation. These acts were blamed on the Turkish Cypriots so that the attack against them could be justified, as could the dissolution of the Cyprus Republic which had been in existence since August 1960. This happened 18 days after the bombing, sparking years of ethnic conflict during which thousands of people from both sides lost their lives. If there is a hell after life I think that the leaders of the Akritas group will have places reserved for them.

Could you imagine, dear readers, what would have happened if we were living in any other country? These revelations would have been the main story in all the news media. The president would have been under pressure to step down, and if he did, the first act of his successor would have been to apologise to the Turkish Cypriots on behalf of all decent Greeks of Cyprus for the crime committed against them in 1963. This would have been a courageous political act.

We are, however, in Cyprus, in which a conspiracy of silence reigns supreme.

Papadopoulos feels no obligation to make any comment about the revelations or to give some explanation. Neither does Demetris Christofias. He does not feel the need to offer an explanation, either to the Turkish Cypriots or to the AKEL supporters, about the logic that led him to make president the deputy leader of a paramilitary group. The same applies to most news media, which are all part of a totalitarian conspiracy of silence that a Stalinist regime would have envied.

All the television stations have sold their souls to the executive power, which is currently represented by Papadopoulos. I have no doubt that in July’s "anniversary documentaries", the CyBC will once again have as guest Dr Lyssarides – another chieftain of a paramilitary group which attacked Turkish Cypriots – so he could continue to peddle the myth about the “Turkish Cypriot mutiny”.

Neither Droushiotis nor any other researcher has to right to appear in such documentaries. Only those who shamelessly distort history and uphold the official myths are allowed to express views on the broadcast media, because the public must continue to live with the myths. Otherwise, how would the deputy leader of Akritas and his partner in arms Christofias be able to govern us?"