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[T_C]

Birk, do you honestly think I was laughing at the dead?

I put the smiley there so people would know I wasn't being serious....

[Oracle]

Who cares? Were they not soldiers like the TCs at Erenkoy??

The GC soldiers were defending Cyprus! They did not enter another country to invade/attack it like the "Erenkoy Turks" and all other Turks who attack us in our own country!

Keep showing your Turkishness ...

[Nikitas]

Soldiers executed after surrender. Is that not a war crime for which many were tried and punished?

As for most being soldiers, we are conveniently forgetting that "NATO's best" allowed massacres of civilians at Kythrea (those have been identified).

We are also forgetting that both sides are harboring some real gems in their midst. The people who committed the massacres of Sandalaris, Afania, Kythrea, are walking around free and no doubt admired for their heroism. We call them "fighters" and reward them. There is an attitude that cuts across both communities, we know it, we know how it is expressed, and how we all shut up about it. We also know that we would not feel at all comfortable if one of these "fighters" wanted to marry into our families.

Omerta is a way of life common to most Mediterranean islands.

[T_C]

Who cares? Were they not soldiers like the TCs at Erenkoy??

The GC soldiers were defending Cyprus! They did not enter another country to invade/attack it like the "Erenkoy Turks" and all other Turks who attack us in our own country!

Keep showing your Turkishness ...

Defending Cyprus by wiping out helpless villages?

Yup, that would be the Greek way of "defending" your country while its being invaded....

[bill cobbett]

Who cares? Were they not soldiers like the TCs at Erenkoy??

The death under these circumstances of even one innocent person is no laughing matter,T_C...Please show some respect...

Your point taken though!

Soldeirs killed "legitimately" in a fair fight, in a Just and Justified War? Or butchered by the overwhelming, brutal, sod the normal rules of war by the anything goes , Universally Condemned, Ethnically Cleansing, Turkish Piss Operation?

Of the view that the Piss Operation was illegal by any standards of international law so all victims (both comms) have been murdered by the Turkish Army and that these mass graves are crime scenes.

So the question of how many of these victims were civilians or combatants becomes irrelevent.

[denizaksulu]

Who cares? Were they not soldiers like the TCs at Erenkoy??

No.

Erenkoy fighters were mainly university students.

The only soldier was the Kommandant who was from Turkey.


I have just seen your later post TC.

[BirKibrisli]

Birk, do you honestly think I was laughing at the dead?

I put the smiley there so people would know I wasn't being serious....

I know!

[Paphitis]

Soldiers executed after surrender. Is that not a war crime for which many were tried and punished?

As for most being soldiers, we are conveniently forgetting that "NATO's best" allowed massacres of civilians at Kythrea (those have been identified).

We are also forgetting that both sides are harboring some real gems in their midst. The people who committed the massacres of Sandalaris, Afania, Kythrea, are walking around free and no doubt admired for their heroism. We call them "fighters" and reward them. There is an attitude that cuts across both communities, we know it, we know how it is expressed, and how we all shut up about it. We also know that we would not feel at all comfortable if one of these "fighters" wanted to marry into our families.

Omerta is a way of life common to most Mediterranean islands.

It most certainly is a War Crime!

But Let T_C have his laugh!

[Paphitis]

Who cares? Were they not soldiers like the TCs at Erenkoy??

Err No!

Most of the missing were actually civilians!

Says who? I've been told by someone from the MPC that majority of GC remains dug up thus far have been that of soldiers....

Why don't you look at this list and tell me how many were soldiers and how may were civilians!

http://www.missing-cy.org.cy/search.asp

T_C you are nothing but a barbarian, because your posts are the most deplorable in this thread. You have yet to realize that even a surrendered soldier is suppose to be protected under the Geneva Convention, and their execution is a War Crime.

You should be ashamed...

[Oracle]

Who cares? Were they not soldiers like the TCs at Erenkoy??

The GC soldiers were defending Cyprus! They did not enter another country to invade/attack it like the "Erenkoy Turks" and all other Turks who attack us in our own country!

Keep showing your Turkishness ...

Defending Cyprus by wiping out helpless villages?

Yup, that would be the Greek way of "defending" your country while its being invaded....

Really? Which "helpless villages" were wiped out whilst Turkey was bombing and Napalming its way over our island ... both in 1964 and 1974.