CopperLine wrote:I'm sure this is a labour of love GR so don't want to diminish your efforts however your attempt to distinguish fictional from factual falls apart pretty rapidly. For example, in your question 'what constitutes credible evidence ?' you discount personal evidence or testimony on the grounds that it is "all prone to bias and unable to have been in more than one location at any given moment thereby having a very limited scope of events." I don't agree with this discounting but I get your point. But this dismissal of personal evidence follows a section on 'credible evidence' - i.e, sources of which you approve - in which you write "The many British documents made public; needless to remind that the British ruled Cyprus between 1878 and 1960, and were therefore in an excellent position to determine fact from fiction." How can you reconcile these two statements ? !! By definition most British sources were written by individual people who were not direct witnesses to events and who are as likely to transmit and record hearsay, general opinion, or the biases of imperial administrators as were any Cypriot who witnessed events first-hand.
Why should we accept as being more 'credible evidence' that which comes from an anglophone colonial officer than a grecophone or turkophone peasant whom he couldn't even understand and had no real interest in understanding ?
The British authority on Cyprus conducted investigations on all major incidents on the island (which involved asking locals from both sides etc) and would then proceed to write up meticulous reports to be passed on to the governor because he had a huge responsibility to ensure that Britain’s interests were looked after, and no doubt he would’ve been often called upon to explain one thing or the other to the then British governments, in fact during the EOKA days (1955..59), hardly a day went by when a Cyprus story didn’t make the British newspapers. Here’s an example of one such report of which I’ve managed to find a picture of the actual report itself!
http://thecyprusproblem.100webspace.net ... ge5108.htm
I’ve got British reports from the 1930’s that include details like… some local throwing a stone at a passing military car or what have you, so nothing was too unimportant for them to jot down it seems!
Oh, and just one minor point : why are you trying to assert copyright on a list of links on your 'credible links' page when all are public domain and, as internet links, necessarily for public access ?
A copyright message is good practice on all pages of a website for legal reasons. Earlier in my career, I used to write and publish software so it became a habit early on to mark all my work intended to reach the masses. The credible links page copyright refers to the page design, layout, functionality, etc, itself and not the linked websites.
