Piratis wrote:Viewpoint wrote:No the GCs are more nasty than that they burnt down TC villages killed TCs and threw them down wells is that what you call mild Piratis? you show the typical GC mrntality of making excuses for your own actions in order to lame others.
Really VP? Far more GCs were murdered between 1958 and 1974 but the most important fact is that you initiated the inter-communal conflict because it was part of your partition plan.
When did GCs burn down any TC villages? Can you give us facts and dates?
Not that this is very important, but I know at least one TC village burned down by EOKA, Kataliontas, in 1958. I don't know if there is any written evidence for this, but at least that's what my father told me, who grew up in the village nearby, Analiontas.
On the main subject, you are perhaps not very wrong, obviously Turkey and TC leadership wanted partition, and inter-communal riots served this purpose, so it's reasonable that they would try to provoke them.
On the other hand, if GC leadership didn't try to impose Enosi (if they had the right to want this, is another story, not very relevant) ignoring the justified fears of TCs, and if GCs didn't behave to TCs as a minority which shouldn't have any say in the future of Cyprus, Turkey and UK would have it more difficult to convince the TCs that there is no alternative to partition.
So the real answer to the question "Who started the inter-communal conflict?", is nationalism. Aided by colonialists of course.
P.S. My impression would be that before the invasion there were more TCs killed than GCs in inter-communal fighting. (Of course not counting GCs killed by GCs or TCs killed by TCs). Are there any generally accepted data on this?
