Now,I will tell you the same thing...Both GCs and TCs are the victims of geopolitical power plays of the big boys,and we should stop blaming each other...We should accept the part we played in this conflict,and rise above the petty accusations of who suffered most or longest...It is pointles to deny history,and the historical precesses which brought us where we are.
We were played for suckers,and we are still being played for suckers by those using the nationalism stick to spread their hatred and bitterness...
Once the bigger plan was in operation there was nothing either the GCs or TCs could've done realistically to change anything
How is the above comment compatible with earlier comments that you made that "GCs should pay the price"?
We need to stop the blame game and agree on the most realistic solution,in order to get our fate in our own hands,as it was between 1960-63...We stuffed it up big time then,and we can only hope we have learned our lessons
The problem existed before 1960 and if there is one lesson to be learned is that racist, divisive, undemocratic arrangements imposed by foreigners on the Cypriot people can not solve the problem but can only make it worst.
Once a feasible solution is achieved we can get on with the job of creating mutual trust and respect in order to help us achieve nationhood sometime in the future
A solution would be feasible if such a solution could be acceptable by both sides. Personally I don't see any such feasible solution. What you call "feasible" is merely us accepting the 99.9% of your demands in what would in effect be legalization of the results of the Turkish invasion. Such kind of "solution" is divisive and if it leads to something else that something else will be an official partition and not anything better.
If in Turkey there is a problem of child labor the way to solve the problem is obviously not to legalize such practice. This can only help those who take advantage of those children, not the children themselves.
Similarly, it is wrong to institutionalize the racist divisions that certain Imperialists helped to create in Cyprus in order to serve their own interests. Such thing will not be to the advantage of the vast majority of the Cypriot people.
The solution in both cases is reforms that will serve the human rights of the whole population and not the interests of a few and the foreign imperialists.
It is clear that TCs do not want a real solution because they continue to hope to receive the gains that were promised to them on the expense of the rest of the population of Cyprus. Therefore a solution is currently impossible. The solution will become possible only if TCs change their mind and accept to be equal Cypriot citizens, rather than the privileged group with disproportionally high powers granted to them by foreigners, or when the balance of power changes.
It seems to me that there is a higher chance in a positive change in the balance of power, than the chance of TCs realizing that it will be better for all of us if they stopped playing the game of the foreign Imperialists.
