Ah what a shame the very bad ECHR, and to think just the other month you were all saying how wonderful the EU courts were and the fantastic institutions were, what’s gone wrong in such a short time?
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The day we were told to go to Hell
ANOTHER big myth, peddled by our ultra-smart, bash-patriotic lawyers and politicians collapsed on Friday when the European Court of Human Rights recognised the pseudo Immovable Property Commission (IPC) in the pseudo-state.
This means that the 1000-plus applications made to the ECHR, by Greek Cypriot refugees would have to be submitted to the pseudo-IPC and if the compensation is deemed inadequate an appeal would have to be made to the pseudo High Administrative Court. Only after these domestic remedies have been exhausted would the ECHR have to examine a case.
In short, the big myth about the European solution, based on respect of human rights that could be secured through the courts has been exposed as big sham.
With their ruling, the ECHR judges unceremoniously chucked all the case files of Greek Cypriots, into the recycling bin and ensured they would not have to deal with the Cyprus property issue ever again. Even if an applicant exhausted all domestic remedies and went to the ECHR, I bet the judges would deem the case inadmissible.
And if anyone did not want to go to the pseudo-commission, he or she could wait for a political settlement of the Cyprob, the ECHR said in its ruling, adding that it could not offer solutions to a problem that should have been resolved politically.
It gets worse. The judges also made it clear that a property did not have to be returned to the owner – there could be an exchange or he could be compensated – as the passing of 35 years raised many questions about ownership claims etc.
Our establishment does not claim to have any legal expertise, but none is required to understand the ruling of the Court, which essentially said: “We are fed up of you Greek Cypriots, clogging up the Court with your cases and presuming that the Court has nothing better to do than deal with your pathetic problem, which you refuse to solve because you are too busy playing the uncompromising champions of human rights. Now you know that respect for human rights isn’t all it’s cracked out to be.”
THE DECISION was a fatal blow to the human rights sales pitch loved by our uncompromising, bash-patriotic lawyers, political leaders and Archbishop. What will they now say to the mugs they have been taking for a ride all these years with their hard sell about the European solution based on respect of all human rights?
With the ECHR telling us to go to hell, which court would they recommend we use to solve the Cyprob? Larnaca district court, the Nicosia labour court or the Paphos kangaroo court? We await DIKO’s legal expert Andreas Angelides, the great champion of legalism to tell us what form the legal liberation struggle would now take.
Former ECHR judge, Loucis Loucaides, who, a couple of weeks ago, was insisting on a TV show that it was possible for a solution to be based on respect of human rights, must tell us what we should do now. We need some new, false hope. Incidentally, why did he not give his old chums at the Court a call and urge them not recognise the pseudo-IPC.
What I would like to know is what all those bash-patriotic lawyers, who contributed to the Court’s decision by heroically encouraging hundreds of refugees to file cases against Turkey, would do. Will they return the fees charged to poor refugees now that the cases have been dumped, without even being opened?
It is the human right of refugees to be given back their money, but will their lawyers respect it?
Source: http://www.cyprus-mail.com/opinions/tal ... l/20100307
