Nikitas wrote:Bir said:
"When the gates were opened the GCs who are using our lands decided to demolish eveything they did not neeed,in case the TCs want to return and reclaim their properties...Eyewitnesses talked about how buldozers were brought in to demolish everything in a hurry!)..."
This is Cypriot village culture taking over and undermining, as it always did, any larger political process. The very same thing happened to my grandfather's village in the Morphou area for another reason: houses there were demolished inorder to prevent the influx of Turkish settlers. The vullage is now inhabited almost exclusively by people from Polis.
I am sure that in neither case the demolition was directed by anyone in power or by any political motivation. It was straight out "me first" thinking that we know as Cypriots but often pretend it does not happen.
Often the mundane undermines the sublime, especially in Cyprus. Look at how our crooks were the first to establish cooperation across the Green line, and how gamblers are directed to specific casinos in the north by commission agents in the south. While people are denigrated as saboteurs because they buy groceries across the line, there is silence about the activities of bicommunal crooks, silence which is characteristic of Cyprus. We are going to pay for this silence.
I agree,Nikitas..The fact that those who have demolished these houses have gotten away without even a slap on the wrist does not inspire confidence in the future...But what else is new? There are murderers of innocent people,on both sides, still walking around with perfect immunity from prosecution...It is very sad really,we have been betraying our country and each other for so long...
