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[Bananiot]

The platform of Greek- Cypriot and Turkish- Cypriot Teachers ‘United Cyprus’

Is organising and inviting you to a

Bicommunal March for Truth and Hope

in an effort

· To seek the truth about our history

· To find evidence in relation to all our missing persons

· To demand greater participation of women in our bicommunal struggle for peace

· To demand a solution now


Saturday 7th March at 11 am


Meeting point: Eleftheria Square

Inonou Square

We will walk towards the end of Ledra Street and Lokmachi unfolding on each side the black ribbon of our sorrow. There we will tie our ribbons, symbolising the union of our common effort to build a momentum of Hope for our country.

Teachers don’t allow the distortion of the truth

Primary school teachers, secondary school teachers, and intellectuals have the responsibility of seeking, promoting and defending historical truth.

Sections of the religious leadership, the mass media and nationalist groups on both Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot sides stubbornly hide any historical truth that puts them in an uncomfortable position and they react in a hostile way against every effort to publicise and discuss the issues of deliberate silencing and the distortions that they entrenched in education and society alike. On the Greek- Cypriot side the Church is threatening to burn the new History books - when and if they change - whereas the Turkish- Cypriot conservative parties promise that they will bring back the old history books as soon as Talat is removed from Office.

If you have any information about missing persons, come forward.


The search for missing persons has at last been more effective. Most of them, however, have not been found yet. Information given by civilians to the committee in charge or to journalists is often very useful. The continuation of this effort depends greatly on this information. So, whoever knows anything, or has any information, must now find the courage to speak. In this way they offer an invaluable service to the relatives of missing persons. We should put pressure on the authorities to contribute to this procedure in an honest and active way.

The scattered remains of our missing persons all over our country, in many cases of civilian men, women and children are the dark reminders of our hidden history, our barbaric self, part of our own responsibility.

Women: the first victims of national and male chauvinism.

Even though war is an act of men, its first victim is life and women’s dignity. It is not accidental that the images of the tragic figures in black that have haunted (society) all these years (the roads) in search for their missing persons, in both communities, are those of women. Women are left with the responsibility of continuing the effort so that Peace would prevail over war and conflict.

Woman’s Day (March 8th) is a day of struggle for a new peaceful society, where women would be equal to men. In the case of our country, it is a day for the establishment of permanent peace and the immediate solution of the Cyprus problem.

Enough! Solution Now!

The rejection policy is the last resort of the nationalists’ political parties that promote the partition of our island. These forces do not only reject any steps that appear to be made towards a compromise between the two communities, during the talks by the two leaders, but they also hinder and undermine every step of communication and reconciliation, every effort to reveal their own historical responsibilities, every attempt at modernisation and democratisation of our educational system and society as a whole. The solution of the Cyprus problem will free, of course, our country from foreign armies and bicommunal confrontation, and at the same time it will liberate it from the rotten establishment that has made partition the cornerstone of its power and of its conservative policies.

[Bananiot]

Women victims of war will be commemorating International Women’s Day on 8th of March, 2009

Women’s agenda: Maratha and Palekythro massacres…

*** Hands Across the Divide women’s association called on Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot women to come to the funeral of Margarita Liasi, her daughters Eleni, Christina, Ilyada and her grandchild 2 year old Lukas to take place at Aglandja on International Women’s Day.

*Margarita, her daughters and her grandson were all killed at the Palekythro massacre in 1974

*** Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot women will also have an activity at the "Cultural Folkloric Society – Nea Genia" at the Voroklini village where a "Missing Bus" from 1964 with 11 Turkish Cypriot passengers wAS found. The activity will be titled "The Missing – A Shared Pain" where Huseyin Rustem Akansoy who lost all his family at the Maratha-Sandallaris-Aloa massacre and Katerina Antona who lost her brother at Palekythro will be speakers.

* Journalist-author Sevgul Uludag will show her work on "missing" and "mass graves" with photos at the event

*** Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot women will go to the place where the "Missing Bus" was found in Voroklini and will plant an olive tree to show their determination to end the conflict and the suffering on the island

Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot women will be commemorating women victims of war on the 8th of March, International Women’s Day. This year, women will have on their agenda the Maratha-Sandallaris-Aloa and Palekythro massacres where those killed were mainly Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot women and children.

Hands Across the Divide women’s association, consisting of Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot women, made a call on Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot women to attend the funeral of Margarita Liasi (she was 48 years old), her daughters Eleni (23), Christina (21), Ilyada (16) and her grandchild Lukas who was only 2 years old. They were all killed at the massacre of Palekythro back in 1974 and their bones were found at a mass grave amongst 16 others. They had been "missing" since 1974. The Liasi family will bury five of their loved ones on International Women’s Day and the funeral will take place at Aglandja in Nicosia, at the Apostolos Andreas Church at 12.30. Those who want to be at the funeral will be meeting at the Ledra Palace checkpoint in the Greek Cypriot side at 11.30 to go to the funeral together.

Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot women will also have an activity at the "Cultural Folkloric Society – Nea Genia" at the Voroklini village where a "Missing Bus" from 1964 with 11 Turkish Cypriot passengers was found. The activity will be titled "The Missing – A Shared Pain" where Huseyin Rustem Akansoy who lost all his family at the Maratha-Sandallaris-Aloa massacre and Katerina Antona who lost her brother at Palekythro will be speakers. Journalist-author Sevgul Uludag will show her work on `missing` and `mass graves` with photos at the event. The activity is being organized by the "Cultural Folkloric Society – Nea Genia" and after the event, Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot women will go to the place where the "Missing Bus" was found in Voroklini and will plant an olive tree to show their determination to end the conflict and the suffering on the island.

For this activity women will be meeting at 15.30 at the Ledra Palace checkpoint. For contact with Hands Across the Divide, Sevgul Uludag at 99 966518 or 0090 542 853 8436 or Magda Zenon at 99 495364 can be called.

[Sotos]

If there is a march for the Truth shouldn't they first say what the truth is so people can see if they actually say the Truth? Imagine if workers made a march demanding things and when they asked them what they demand they said that they didn't know

[paliometoxo]

you beat me to it

tomorrow 11am.. nice and early

[halil]

this event will be broadcast via Turksat to world . It can be watch from Europe to Australia as well .

[Bananiot]

Of course I know some forumers who will not be there, because this is a partitionist gathering. These are mainly EOKA B lovers who want the whole of Cyprus to join with Greece, not like some other forumers who are contended with 37% of Cyprus joining Greece, even indirectly, through the EU.

Damn it! I have just remembered. Sener Levent and his "Yiasemi" movement declared that the presence of Turkey after solution is a must.

[Sotos]

Of course I know some forumers who will not be there, because this is a partitionist gathering.

Why do you want to participate in a partitionist gathering? So that is why Turksat will broadcast it! Because I started to think why the Turks would want to promote this! Now it makes sense!

[insan]

Of course I know some forumers who will not be there, because this is a partitionist gathering.

Why do you want to participate in a partitionist gathering? So that is why Turksat will broadcast it! Because I started to think why the Turks would want to promote this! Now it makes sense!

Sotos, we know that u r the ultimate knowledge center. What u say is true; what TCs and Turks and even Macedonians say r wrong. That's why I call u Greek God Sotos

[Bananiot]

RIK will show it too. It must be a Greek conspiracy thing. There is no end to stupidity.

[Kifeas]

Of course I know some forumers who will not be there, because this is a partitionist gathering. These are mainly EOKA B lovers who want the whole of Cyprus to join with Greece, not like some other forumers who are contended with 37% of Cyprus joining Greece, even indirectly, through the EU.

Damn it! I have just remembered. Sener Levent and his "Yiasemi" movement declared that the presence of Turkey after solution is a must.

Bananiot, I know that being the representative of Talat in this forum, you aspire for the day that Turkey will become the government of the Greek Cypriots, through a skewed form of solution, something which of course will never happen; however, can you at least explain to us why and how the election of president /deputy president on a common ticket, directly by the people but with separate proportional quotas from each community, "violates the principles of political equality and bi-zonality," as your boss, Mr. Talat, affirmed in an interview in he gave yesterday in Turkey?