Kifeas wrote:VP, in 1974, we lost 37% of our country, together with 65% of its then natural, agricultural and tourism development resources. Yet, we managed to survive and in 30 years time we developed an economy and a society that it is regarded as the most advanced in the Middle East and the eastern Mediterranean, and we enjoy a quality of life even better than that of Israel, the 52nd state of the USA. We have managed to make Cyprus a member of the EU, and enjoy a per capita income that is equal to the average of the EU. All these, despite all the obstacles resulting from the making of 1/3 of our population as refugees, and despite starting from point zero in 1974. How did we manage all these, if as you say we have no vision?
Let me tell you something else, VP! We are the indigenous people of this country. We are one with the mountains of this country, one with its stones, its trees, its rocks, its waters, its skies and its seas. It is estimated that during our long history, about 10 millions of GCs have lived in this island, and have now passed away. If each one of them needs one (1) sq. meter for his burial place, then 10 mil. Sq. meters of this island do contain our ancestors’ bones. The territory of this island is only about 9.2 millions of sq. meters, therefore chances are you are currently seating over the bones of one of our ancestors. Every meter you cover daily while walking, you are passing over the burial place of one the ancestors of the Greek Cypriots. Every meter you are digging daily to plant a tree or a flower, your mixing your hands with the soil that digested the blood and the flesh of one of our ancestors, and which contains their bones. We are part of the nature of this island-country. In choosing to fight us in this island, you have chosen to fight the nature of this country. There is no human being that can put up a fight with nature itself, and this is precisely what you have chosen to do. In the end, nature will prevail!
The perfect unison of truth and poetry ....
