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By Loucas Charalambous

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?

Interesting article any comments by our GCs neighbours???

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lol...so why did Denktash admit to this bombing then?

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By Loucas Charalambous

Thanks for the warning so I will not waste my time.

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Piratis

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By Loucas Charalambous

Thanks for the warning so I will not waste my time.

try opening your eyes for a change it might just work.

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Piratis

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By Loucas Charalambous

Thanks for the warning so I will not waste my time.

try opening your eyes for a change it might just work.

the blind leading the blind lol

[magikthrill]

lol...so why did Denktash admit to this bombing then?

Did Denkatsh indeed admit to the bombing and if so then what thell is this guy talking about?

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lol...so why did Denktash admit to this bombing then?

Did Denkatsh indeed admit to the bombing and if so then what thell is this guy talking about?

No once again it's main source getting his facts in a twist I am afriad. Using a not uncommon GC logic, because there was an acceptance (from Denktash and others) that a bomb on the 7th June outside the Turkish Consulate in Nicosia was placed their by TC extremisits and not GC extremists, this means that all other bombs in Cyprus from that point onwards were placed by TC and Denktash had admitted this. That would appear to be Main Sources 'basis' for his claim.

[magikthrill]

but denkstash did admit TC extremists placed a bomb to stretch the intercommunal violence?

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but denkstash did admit TC extremists placed a bomb to stretch the intercommunal violence?

It is widely accepted by all - Denktash included - that the bomb that went of in 1958 June 7th outside the Turkish Consulate in Nicosia was planted by TC extremists - though initialy it was believed to be the work of GC.

The article that this thread is about is nothing to do with THIS bomb. It make no reference to this event what so ever.

Main sources comment "lol...so why did Denktash admit to this bombing then?" is just plain wrong like so many of his comments made with a certainty that only the truley biased can maintain (like UK _ordering_ Turkey to invade in 74 of Makarios abandoning ENOSIS in 60)

Still better to talk about a totaly different event and bomb (idealy one that can attributed to TC) that the article and the point of the article?

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ok wow...so i got two dates mixed up.

but explain to me this racist view of a common GC basis of though a little more...