by Bananiot » Sat Dec 26, 2009 11:31 am
The policy of Makarios was to break the spirit of the TC's (how long will they last out in the enclaves?) and then take an easy ride towards the implementation of our political aims (which were of course union with Greece to start with and then, after 1968, disguised union with Greece). We never considered the TC's as our equal citizens/partners. They were always second class citizens, enjoying the status of present day Sri Lankans in Cyprus. I am old enough to have personal experience of this.
This arrogance on our behalf was the norm until 1974 when Turkey invaded Cyprus. In effect we invited Turkey to step in with our fanatic approach to the Cyprus issue which we created in 1963, in our quest to change the agreements to our benefit. Sure TMT had its own agenda of partition but again, sadly, we gave them the ammunition by sending as a free gift to them the disillusioned masses of the democratic-progressive TC's who would naturally oppose the extreme right wingers that TMT represented. We would indiscriminately kill TC's (simply because they were TC) and I was glad to hear Takis Hadjidemetriou on Eirinis programme last Monday, stress this point, by referring to Kutlai Erk's father, who in January 1964, was dragged out of his hospital bed (treated for heart attack) and later found in a well at Parissinos.
This is in a nutshell part of our recent history and it is not difficult to see that we are just as responsible for Turkey's invasion, which could have happened earlier, in 1964 or 1968, but was prevented by our sworn enemies, the Angloamericans!
