Kuruovali wrote:bill cobbett wrote:A wise member suggested a few days ago (I forget who) an interim Police Force from fellow and impartial EU states. Very wise idea.
It's 2009, shall we move on?
No Bill, it's not as simple as that and to suggest so is ludicrous and will fool/convince no lone. Remember it wasn't too long ago that the 'impartial' UN stepped aside and allowed the slaughter of 8000 Bosnian men and boys in Srebrenica. Slaughtered by the Serbs who were indirectly assisted their Greek orthodox kinsmen (Greeks broke the UN arms embargo allowing weapons and ammunition to flow to the Serbs).
So, let me just repeat to make it absolutely clear for those that still don't get it...... for the time being there is only one gurantee for the survival and freedoms of the TC's within Cyprus and that is the Turkish Army.
K
(Welcome K)
The damnable events in Srebeniza were in the middle of a hot and active war and only a Propagandist Plonker would suggest they apply to present day Cy which has been pretty peaceful for 35 years.
Anyway can you tell us K whether the thousands of our northern friends who cross the green line each day for work, shopping etc into the Free Areas of the Republic feel so unsafe as to bring with them a contingent of this Jurkish Army to guarantee their safety? When one of our northern sisters goes shopping in Ledra is she surrounded by a platoon of the Jurkish Army?
To my mind those that cross seem to "survive" pretty well.
You also say that this Jurkish Army guarantees the freedoms of the "tcs" K. Might you tell us in what ways the Jurkish Army safeguards the normal democratic rights of our northern community to enjoy such things as freedom of free expression?
Better community relations won't be encouraged by any army, whether from Turkey or anywhere else. Indeed a Turkish one (or a Gr one) promotes only suspision and division.