Viewpoint wrote:Paphitis wrote:Viewpoint wrote:As this is a very personal issue for Paphitis I will extend my hand in apology for the loss of human life and wish that we could undo all the deaths but unfortunately we have no magic wand, Im truely sorry Paphitis.
Appreciate it VP!
Please let it be known that I don't demand any sympathy, just want people to respect these 5 POWs. Just want people to respect all the fallen in a dignified way.
I too apologise for any TC losses. I also wish I had a magic wand to bring back to life all the GCs and TCs that lost their lives, but that is not possible.
What is important now, is hat we leave all these atrocities in the past. Never forget, as we will then be doomed to relive the same hell. Just leave the past and look at a better future in a united a free Cyprus, where such things will never happen again! Only then will all these deaths not be in vain....
I'm certain this is what all those GC and TC fallen would want as well, because they don't want to see us relive the same pain and suffering.
Paphitis we understand your pain as ours is the same but what GCs are trying to do is force us into minority status in our own country, this as you probably know we will never accept even if it means fighting for our rights so my son or even yours (presuming you have one) could also be one of those POWS if we try to force the other side into a solution or position they will rebel against.
VP, the RoC is negotiating a BBF (Federation and not a Confederacy) with one single international identity, single citizenship, and single sovereignty. Both constituent states of the
Federation will be of equal status, and the Turkish Constituent State, will have its own House of Representatives, Judiciary and armed police force.
The RoC has also compromised by proposing that 50,000 settlers will be allowed to stay on humanitarian grounds.
Federally, all Cypriot citizens will be represented proportionally, based on one man one vote.
We have already offered many more compromises, for little in return. The RoC is negotiating a solution based on segregation of both communities. It is official partition between the 2 Cypriot communities or a system of Apartheid (to use Oracle's emotive language).
What Turkey wants is to control the whole island by controlling the Cypriot EEZ, FIR, and immigration policies. This will see the GCs lose control of all of Cyprus and this can never be accepted by us, which is why we are doomed to have the current status quo for some time to come.
With all the good will extended by the GCs towards the TCs, then why not extend some good will in return by opening up Ammochostos to the 45,000 GC refugees. The area is just a wasteland now, so I don't see why you are clinging on to it. If the 45,000 GC refugees can return, then we only have another 115,000 GC refugees to worry about instead of 160,000.
Your side will also gain a substantial PR victory...