by Bananiot » Sun May 23, 2010 11:53 am
Mr-from-NG, the book is only in Greek I am afraid, but you are right, it is a most interesting and informative book.
Just to come back to Piratis once again, not in the vain hope of installing some sanity into this person, but for the benefit of all forumers, I would like to stress a simple fact that really shouldn't be needing any stressing. The intercommunal strife did not start just like that, as the late Tommy Cooper would say. It was brewing, long before it started, thanks to the efforts of the sick nationalists of both sides. Here is another example:
On April 23 1956, EOKA members shot a GC policeman next to the Seray in Nicosia. A TC policeman (named Nihat Pacit) went after them and they shot him dead. The perpetrators were arrested on the spot by Turkish Cypriot women, would you believe. You can imagine what followed. The TC mob went on a rampage stoning and setting alight GC shops next to the pandopoleio. This setting went on for the next two days and eventually, the old pandopoleio was left in the hands of the TC's and the GC's turned the ginaikopazaro into a pandopoleio and thus segregation was duly achieved to the delight of the nationalists. Two separate pandopoleia as far back as 1956 and some naive forumers still think that separation and partition happened in 1974.
Another event that produced arson attacks and beating in many parts of Cyprus, including Larnaca and Limasol, was the murdering of TC policeman Lisani Ahmed in Polis on May 23 1956. Who were the murderers is not conclusive. It could have been EOKA or even TMT to incite racial hatred. This was a method practiced by both sides during this "preparatory" period of the demise of Cyprus.
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Bananiot on Sun May 23, 2010 11:56 am, edited 3 times in total.