DT. wrote:Paphitis wrote:DT. wrote:Paphitis wrote:denizaksulu wrote:Paphitis wrote:denizaksulu wrote:Peace at last, even if temporary.
Then we all know Grivas' hatred for the 'commies' by his 'heroics' in the Greek civil war as an efficient 'commie' hunter. I suppose that being labelled an AKEL member was a sentence of death as far as Grivas and his men were concerned.
No Deniz.
I am certain EOKA had better things to do than to hunt down 200,000 innocent "commies" in Cyprus.
However, anyone that was caugth undermining the EOKA leadership and thus undermining the struggle, had to be dealt with and "The Cypriot" knows this only too well and that is why he has conceded defeat and gone off in a huff to wash his moustakia and vraka...
AKEL members were also tracked down in 1974, during the 'N. Sampson' era coup. They were still on the wrong side I suppose. So much for free expression. Its a terrifying thought. Whether true or not, mentioning these will no doubt put the wind up separatists who will simply ask, 'if they do that to their own people what hope have we got?' Then you cant blame them for wanting to split the island into two.
All Makarios loyalists were potential targets for the coupists. Makarios loyalists were not AKEL supporters. AKEL supporters were only coalition partners with the Makarios loyalists which later became the DIKO Party in Cyprus.
So most of the older members of the DIKO Party would have been the Junta's main target. They were not communist but were mostly centrist right wing.
Just to get some things straight, there was a large number of AKEL supporters that were EOKA fighters as well. Enough with this story that AKEL and EOKA were at war.
I know there were DT.
It is the Cypriot that is trying to say that EOKA had extreme ideologies resulting in the 23 AKEL members opposing the leadership.++Please read my post again, because I did not say that EOKA and AKEL were at war.
Wasn't talking about you Paphiti, was reffering to the 100's of posts beforehand.
Yiasou leventi.
BTW, Apoel really copped it against the Paphites last week..
The cup is on the way to Paphos DT.