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[miltiades]

Was it EOKA that shot British Police Officers seconded to Cyprus in the late 1950`s early 1960`s?

Do you mean British Police serving in Cyprus as part of the occupying force , fucking stubborn they were too , a bit like the British Traffic Wardens !!!

[apc2010]

same as that pesky woman shopping in the murder mile...

[miltiades]

same as that pesky woman shopping in the murder mile...

Ah yes I forgot the ...murder mile , any chance that someone can tell us how many murders occured in the ...murder mile ??

[halil]

that flag has black lines across it, its turkish what it used to be?

Palio ,

that flag used by Indonasion Moujahdins .

[Bananiot]

They don't call it murder mile for nothing Miltiades. Nicolas Sampson was behind a number of murders there. He was also a journalist at the time and after he handed the murder weapon to a young girl he would pull out his camera and have exclusive coverage of the incidence in his newspaper the next day.

Nevertheless, I am prepared to accept what EOKA did back then, if someone can explain to me how killing a couple of teenage English girls in Famagusta in 1958 advanced the aims of EOKA as an organisation struggling for liberation. Also, the numerous murders of young CG's who simply were leftist, paints a black picture for EOKA and its leaders. I am certain that these actions of EOKA led to the failure of the struggle for enosis and that a different kind of action, as the one taken by the far more numerous Indians, would have a better result. The fact that we agreed to a mutilated independence in 1959 bears testament to the failure of the armed struggle that was led by a priest and a fascist villager of a general.

[Oracle]

same as that pesky woman shopping in the murder mile...

.... And same as those "pesky" GC schoolkids the Brits shot, and those many innocent men and women trying to live rightfully in their own country?

Did EOKA go over to Britain to shoot this wife of a British officer?
No!
She was here as part of the Colonial occupying force!

[denizaksulu]

same as that pesky woman shopping in the murder mile...

.... And same as those "pesky" GC schoolkids the Brits shot, and those many innocent men and women trying to live rightfully in their own country?

Did EOKA go over to Britain to shoot this wife of a British officer?
No!
She was here as part of the Colonial occupying force!

[BOF]

I dont think the shooting in the back of women and schoolkids sits very well with the words heroic or noble struggle.
Especially when the leader of the resistance was a man of your god.
I find it a little incongruous that during the attempted armed takeover by Greece of Cyprus and the overthrow of Makarios that he was protected and whisked away to safety by the British.
And Makarios is said by some on here to have been blackmailed into agreeing to sign a document - is this true?
If so what did he do to be blackmailed and who by?

[apc2010]

same as that pesky woman shopping in the murder mile...

.... And same as those "pesky" GC schoolkids the Brits shot, and those many innocent men and women trying to live rightfully in their own country?

Did EOKA go over to Britain to shoot this wife of a British officer?
No!
She was here as part of the Colonial occupying force!

who saved makarios arse

[Oracle]

What are you talking about? By condemning him to exile?