DT, you are funny, to say the least. Me and Birkibrisli have acknowledged and deeply condemned atrocities committed by both parts. We did not shy away from those committed by our respective communities. If Cyprus was inhabited by Bananiots and Birkibrislis, our wells would be full with water only and this place would have been a paradise for all Cypriots.
However, your sudden burst of indignation about bodies found in wells and the belated funerals is very touching but If I may remind you, we started this "trend" in the early 60's and if someone was to shut the hell up, that would be you and your like who never found one word of sympathy to utter, when the bodies thrown in wells were not Greek Cypriots. In early 1963, truck loads of murdered Turkish Cypriots were thrown into wells at Parisinos and Makedonitissa area in Nicosia alone, but of course, you and GR need a creditable link and the murderers (who are well known) have not published their heroic acts on the net yet.
Damn the murderers of both sides! They have ruined our lives, the best years of our lives and caused so much misery to Cyprus. I do not know how to spell it, but this is how Dido Soteriou ends her epic "Farewell Anatolia" Kahr olsun sempet olanlar!
For those that might want to read the book, here is a review of this book.
Manolis Axiotis is born into a farming family in a Greek village in the mountains above Ephesus, where life revolves around the fields and the olive and fig trees. But he gets on badly with his father and is sent to the bustling, cosmopolitan city of Smyrna and exposed to a much broader world.
The villagers speak Turkish themselves and are on good terms with their Turkish neighbours; their lives follow patterns that have evolved over millennia. And Smyrna is a multi-ethnic city, shared by Turks, Greeks, Armenians, Levantines, and others. But the wars that start in 1912 and then 1914 herald a decade of violence that will destroy this world completely.
Manolis is conscripted into the Ottoman army — or rather, as an untrusted Greek, into Labour Battalions which work in appalling conditions. He deserts and goes into hiding, leading a furtive underground life. After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, he ends up as part of the Greek army and the disastrous campaign to take Ankara. And at the end he is caught up in the massacres involved in the ethnic cleansing of Smyrna.
None of the characters in Farewell Anatolia really come to life: Manolis himself is too much of a blank slate, absorbing information and experiencing events, while the other characters are little more than types. But it is a powerful, gripping tale, offering a panoramic view of the catastrophic end of the Greek communities of Asia Minor. It is an ordinary person's view of how war and nationalism, used by self-centred politicians and amoral Great Powers, can drive communalism and ethnic conflict and destroy communities.