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[wyoming cowboy]

There were no clashes in Karavas or Lapithos during the coup, only arrests, and imprisonment in the castle of Kyrenia...There were definetley no burials of any sort by the junta in Lampousa where the mass grave is located....i should know without being specific up until the last day of the coup i saw no burials or bulldozers moving anything in that area, the Greek cyp soldiers were not even in their barracks in lampousa on the 19th of july.....

[bill cobbett]

There were no clashes in Karavas or Lapithos during the coup, only arrests, and imprisonment in the castle of Kyrenia...There were definetley no burials of any sort by the junta in Lampousa where the mass grave is located....i should know without being specific up until the last day of the coup i saw no burials or bulldozers moving anything in that area, the Greek cyp soldiers were not even in their barracks in lampousa on the 19th of july.....

We are fortunate that WC is able to give us a first hand account to confirm that there were no clashes between coupists and the democratic forces in the area, which destroys completely the distracting claims made by the usual suspects throughout this thread.

[YFred]

There were no clashes in Karavas or Lapithos during the coup, only arrests, and imprisonment in the castle of Kyrenia...There were definetley no burials of any sort by the junta in Lampousa where the mass grave is located....i should know without being specific up until the last day of the coup i saw no burials or bulldozers moving anything in that area, the Greek cyp soldiers were not even in their barracks in lampousa on the 19th of july.....

We are fortunate that WC is able to give us a first hand account to confirm that there were no clashes between coupists and the democratic forces in the area, which destroys completely the distracting claims made by the usual suspects throughout this thread.

Bill, I can't do it now, but there is a clip on Youtube of the GN captain talking about rounding up Communists dogs and killing them from the film by Cacoyannis.

[bill cobbett]

There were no clashes in Karavas or Lapithos during the coup, only arrests, and imprisonment in the castle of Kyrenia...There were definetley no burials of any sort by the junta in Lampousa where the mass grave is located....i should know without being specific up until the last day of the coup i saw no burials or bulldozers moving anything in that area, the Greek cyp soldiers were not even in their barracks in lampousa on the 19th of july.....

We are fortunate that WC is able to give us a first hand account to confirm that there were no clashes between coupists and the democratic forces in the area, which destroys completely the distracting claims made by the usual suspects throughout this thread.

Bill, I can't do it now, but there is a clip on Youtube of the GN captain talking about rounding up Communists dogs and killing them from the film by Cacoyannis.

Captain Corelli's Mandolin ?

[YFred]

There were no clashes in Karavas or Lapithos during the coup, only arrests, and imprisonment in the castle of Kyrenia...There were definetley no burials of any sort by the junta in Lampousa where the mass grave is located....i should know without being specific up until the last day of the coup i saw no burials or bulldozers moving anything in that area, the Greek cyp soldiers were not even in their barracks in lampousa on the 19th of july.....

We are fortunate that WC is able to give us a first hand account to confirm that there were no clashes between coupists and the democratic forces in the area, which destroys completely the distracting claims made by the usual suspects throughout this thread.

Bill, I can't do it now, but there is a clip on Youtube of the GN captain talking about rounding up Communists dogs and killing them from the film by Cacoyannis.

Captain Corelli's Mandolin ?

Reh Billagui, GCs terrified of a Greek officer is not a joking matter.
Get a hold of yourself.

[bill cobbett]

There were no clashes in Karavas or Lapithos during the coup, only arrests, and imprisonment in the castle of Kyrenia...There were definetley no burials of any sort by the junta in Lampousa where the mass grave is located....i should know without being specific up until the last day of the coup i saw no burials or bulldozers moving anything in that area, the Greek cyp soldiers were not even in their barracks in lampousa on the 19th of july.....

We are fortunate that WC is able to give us a first hand account to confirm that there were no clashes between coupists and the democratic forces in the area, which destroys completely the distracting claims made by the usual suspects throughout this thread.

Bill, I can't do it now, but there is a clip on Youtube of the GN captain talking about rounding up Communists dogs and killing them from the film by Cacoyannis.

Captain Corelli's Mandolin ?

Reh Billagui, GCs terrified of a Greek officer is not a joking matter.
Get a hold of yourself.

Reh Pushtoui, hate reh! I've got the pop-corn in.

[bill cobbett]

Whilst we're waiting for the film to start and if Insan, Freddie and Halil will allow us ...this report from today's TheLondonDailyNews.com which tells us that London Cys with the help of their local MP are going to pursue a court action against Turkey for it's war crimes in 74 ....

International Desk

The Turkish army has been accused of war crimes during its illegal invasion in 1974 of Cyprus, which has provoked Greek Cypriots to prepare law suits to prosecute Turkey for war crimes.  Following the discovery of human remains in a mass grave confirmed using DNA evidence to be the bodies of five Greek-Cypriot soldiers who appeared in an "iconic" photograph depicting the ferocious military attack instigated by Turkish troops on the Mediterranean island.

The families of the Greek Cypriots have said that the evidence found in the mass graves of the bodies to be that of the men presumed missing for 35 years, were in fact murdered in the custody of Turkish troops.

"It's a cold-blooded execution," Andreas Hadjikyriakos, a brother of one of the soldiers told Cyprus state TV. "I can never accept this." (Associated Press)

The Associated Press in a report said:

"The remains of the soldiers and 14 other people were exhumed from an abandoned well in late 2006 near the northern village of Tziaos, Elias Georgiades, an official with the United Nations-led Committee on Missing Persons, said. He said the soldiers' families were informed Friday that the remains had been identified."

Greece's Foreign Ministry on Monday also said the latest discovery "confirms ... crimes committed during the invasion."

The Turkish government have made no comment on the reports and the Turkish army did not according to UNFICYP (the UN force in Cyprus) provide any sort of credible co-operation in the process of recognition of the remains.

The revelations of the mass graves comes on the day when the vice chairman of the parliamentary group for the "Friend of Cyprus" Andrew Dismore Labour MP for Hendon, and chairman of parliament's human rights committee outlined how he was determined to pursue anyone who has committed war criminals and said in
The Guardian:

"The UK must not be a safe haven for evil.  The message to those who have perpetrated the most heinous crime imaginable must be clear: they are not welcome here, not to visit, not to live, not to holiday, shop or get medical treatment.  The UK should close these loopholes in the law.  We also need to establish a specialist war crime unit".

The London Daily News has been made aware of London based Cypriot organisations preparing law suits against the Turkish government for war crimes that may implicate London based Turkish diplomats and citizens who have been accused of complicity in war crimes during the 1974 invasion of Cyprus.  There are around 3,000 Greek-Cypriots living in the Hendon constituency of Andrew Dismore; which may according to senior sources in the Greek-Cypriot community provide enough justification to pressure the British parliamentary human rights committee to pursue Turks in the UK involved in war crimes in Cyprus in 1974.

A dossier of the information will be submitted, according to a senior Greek-Cypriot source, to the parliamentary human’s right committee for review on UK based Turks who were involved in war crimes in 1974.

The five men whose remains have been discovered are:

Korellis Antonakis Michael,age 30,from Kythrea
Nicolaou Panicos Chrisostomos,age 26,from Ekso Metoxi
Hadjykyriakos Philippos Stephanos,age 19,from Ammochostos
Papayiannis Ioannis Charalambos,age 24,from Aglangia
Skordis Christoforos Georghios,age 25,from Dhali     

In January this year a leading Turkish actor confessed to murdering 10 Greek-Cypriots live on a Turkish talk show.  Atilla Olgaç confessed that he executed in cold-blood ten Greek Cypriot prisoners of war during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974.

[wyoming cowboy]

To whom it may concern and anyone filing a suit against Turkey, if you look up magazines and newspapers that covered the invasion first hand in 1974, you will find plenty of reporters writing about Greek cyps executed in cold blood in the areas of Kyrenia, Elia, and other areas of the first stage o fthe invasion, one that i have read depicts a group of men in civilian clothes with a 13 year old boy, lying dead with apparent bullet holes all over their bodies.....

[Lit]

...this report from today's TheLondonDailyNews.com which tells us that London Cys with the help of their local MP are going to pursue a court action against Turkey for it's war crimes in 74 ....

I wish them the very best in their pursue of justice.

[Oracle]

Why is the Turkish regime STILL not allowing access to the mass graves; neither to the RoC nor to the CMP ...



FAMAGUSTA GAZETTE 17.SEP.09

MEP Ioannis Kasoulides has called on the European Parliament to urge Turkey to cooperate with the UN Committee on Missing Persons by making available to the CMP its archives and accepting to open two recently designated locations in the Turkish occupied village of Lapithos, in the northern part of the island.