Piratis wrote:shahmaran wrote:Piratis wrote:So, between 1955 and 1960 the GCs did absolutely nothing. Just took it.
The GCs were already fighting against the British. The TC minority on the island was not a problem for us. They became a problem when they started to collaborate with the colonialists, but even then EOKA didn't want to start a second front and avoided a conflict with the TC community. But when the TCs started the riots destroying the properties of innocent GCs, and massacring GCs,
then EOKA retaliated.
The whole conflict was designed by the UK and Turkey and it was part of their divide and rule plan and the eventual partition of Cyprus, something which was also planed from the 50s.
This article talks about that era, end especially the role of the British
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n08/ande01_.html
Bullshit!
What are you on about, the document you put forward states that the TC's were fighting against the British at some point and a few of them died doing so.
So please explain to me how that is considered as "helping the British" ?
So, the TC's revolt against the British along with you and in return they should shut up and be a part of your Enosis dream?!
Sounds like the kind of logic Pissartist here would support, twisted and rotten!
The whole TC revolt was against Enosis which
you started, and they had every right to do so!
So finally you do admit that the TCs attacked the GCs but you call it "TC revolt against Enosis".
As I said before:
Enosis was our right. Her is another "useless" for you document, a UN Resolution about the granting of independence to Colonial territories which clearly defines "integration into an independent State" as one of the "three legitimate options of full self-government".
http://www.un.org/Depts/dpi/decolonizat ... ration.htm
But we wouldn't have to start any Enosis struggle if you had allowed our freedom in the first place:
During the Greek War of Independence in 1821, the Ottoman authorities feared that Greek Cypriots would rebel again. Archbishop Kyprianos, a powerful leader who worked to improve the education of Greek Cypriot children, was accused of plotting against the government. Kyprianos, his bishops, and hundreds of priests and important laymen were arrested and summarily hanged or decapitated on July 9, 1821.
What do you call the above? The Ottoman "revolt" against the Freedom of Greeks?
If you had allowed Cyprus to be free from back then, Cyprus would be part of the
initial Greek Republic, and there wouldn't be any need for Enosis (union).
In the 1950s, just 8 decades after your brutal rule was over, you
again attacked us, again with the aim to deny from Cypriots their right to peacefully and democratically decide the destiny of their own island, just like you did in 1821. At the same time you started calling for the annihilation of the majority of Cypriots from half of their island, a plan that you put into action in 1974, and which you are trying to legalize until today. And no. You had
absolutely no right to do any of those things. Collaborating with foreign imperialists and attacking the majority of the native people in order to undemocratically impose your will is not called a "revolt"
P.S
You were helping the British defeat the Cypriot revolution and this is obvious from your actions. In the video I posted you can see Dektash himself saying that both Turks and British wanted to defeat us so they collaborated. The problem of TCs with the British was that they wanted the British to immediately implement the partition plan and annihilate GCs from half of Cyprus. The demonstration of TCs was a demand for partition! And just so you know, those 7 TCs that were killed by the British were added in the "Martyrs" TC list as victims of the inter-communal conflict.
I have not once claimed that the TC's had not committed any crimes against you. You are doing it again, trying to fit me into this box you are stuck with.
Basically this is what it boils down to, you always viewed us as the unwanted foreign invaders who does not have the right to have any say over the fate of the island, am I correct?!
So in your eyes, we had no excuse to revolt against Enosis or to the changes in the constitution that would take our powers and so we are to blame for everything that came from then onwards, since we were guilty for simply being here in the first place, which was 500 years ago.
Well no shit Piratis, as long as you base your argument on this crap, there is no point in debating anything with you my friend.
You are living in Cyprus but in lalaland as they say
But let me point one thing out that in reality no one bases any argument on the above extreme and fascist view of the world and no political strategy based up on this view is likely to have a positive outcome.
We were equal partners, you had signed an agreement giving us right in the government and you fucked it, you did not only fuck that but you also wanted union with Greece.
So you have no face to say that we started the violence as the violence was the outcome of such fascistic and selfish actions in the first place.
Are you surprised that we are where we are? I hope not!
Do you still believe that such ideologies still have a place for the peace, freedom and independence of this island? You probably do, being a selective amnesiac.
Can you see that they do not work and that seriously undermining and hoping to oppress a certain ethnic section of your population causes nothing but division? Probably not but who cares, the people who are worthy enough do so, and that is all I care.
Changing the views of a single ancient fascist over the Internet is not what I am here for and I believe I have given way too much thought over your views than they actually deserve.
But who am I kidding....
ps. What is wrong with labeling the people killed by the British as Martyrs of the inter-communal violence?