Bananiot wrote:
For a start, EOKA B members came from the ranks of what Piratis calls the original EOKA. Turkish Cypriots were killed by the "original" EOKA but, many more GC's were killed by the murdering fiends who got their orders directly from a person using the pseudonym "Defkalion". This person was Papadopoulos and this is amptly documented and it seems the only person that seems to ignore this fact is Piratis who refuses to take off the blindfolds when it comes to Papadopoulos.
He is also the only living person I know who conveniently does not know that Papadopoulos was the author of the Akritas plan that aimed at cleansing Cyprus of the TC community had our TC compatriots resisted the glorious path to enosis.
To claim that Papadopoulos has never been involved in the military part of EOKA is beyond imagination. The families of the left wing Greek Cypriots who were brutally murdered on his orders are still struggling to clear the names of their loved ones. There is still much anguish and grief, 47 years on ...
The Liar and the hypocrite of the forum has stricken again!
Bananiot is a liar because he claims that Papadopoullos ordered the execution of people during the “original” EOKA. Such a claim is totally unsubstantiated. It is true that “Defkalion” or Papadopoullos, as a youth, was engaged in the political section of the EOKA struggle and was involved in the propaganda war and more specifically with the publication of a pro-EOKA editorial of those times. To this end, he was required through this editorial to justify or rationalise or explain those rightful or wrongful killings, under the pre-text of treason. He did not order the killings himself, nor he ever participated personally in any such killings. This role was attributed to Grivas and the regional captains of EOKA.
Bananiot is a Liar because he claims that Papadopoullos was the author of the Akritas plan. The author of the Akritas plan was Policarpos Yiorgagis, then minister of interior, was also retained the name Akritas. Klerides and Papadopoullos were second and third in command of this organisation that undertook the promotion and implementation of the plan. Papadopoullos was not the author, as Bananiot claims.
Bananiot is a liar because he claims that the Akritas plan was a plan that aimed at the cleansing of the TC community from Cyprus. The Akritas plan was a plan purely aiming at diminishing the separate privileged constitutional rights of the TC community, essentially through the use of political means and tactics and fabricated propaganda, primarily aiming at influencing the international diplomatic and public opinion. The Akritas plan did not foresee and did not incorporate attacks on the TC community, in order to annihilate it and thus achieve its goals. The Akritas plan did not assume unprovoked or unilateral attacks against the TC community, in order to bring it to capitulation and /or surrender. The Akritas plan foresaw the use of violence against TMT and any other TC extremists, only as a reaction to initiated TC violence that would have aimed to the creation of a chaotic situation in Cyprus in order to provoke the intervention of Turkey.
Here is the full text of the Akritas plan for everyone to read and extract their own conclusions.
http://www.cyprus-conflict.net/akritas_plan.htmBananiot often accuses Papadopoullos to be a psychotic Turk hater. This is also another one of his many lies in this forum. This is what MARTIN PACKARD, a British officer who was sent in Cyprus during the period of early 1964 to participate in the British peacekeeping force after the intercommunal violence erupted, said about Papadopoullos.
“The events of early 1964 have never been clearly explained to the Cypriot public and have been grossly distorted by foreign commentators. The truth about them is essentially unifying rather than divisive. The mediating process then, which came close to success, depended on two men, Tassos Papadopoulos and Fazil Kutchuk. Each was a Cypriot nationalist, rather than a Greek or Turkish one; but each was prepared to seek a new and workable partnership. Maybe it was a recoil from the abyss but no snide belittlement can alter the fact of what. they achieved, or sought to achieve, during the period that I was working with them. The conquering of violence and the survival of a great number of Turkish Cypriots stemmed from that co-operation and from the conciliatory efforts that were spearheaded by Papadopoulos: I say this not because of friendship or respect but as a witness to events in which I was involved.”
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=18762&archive=1
Bananiot is a hypocrite because he pushes aside and hides completely the role and responsibility of Glavkos Klerides, then minister of justice, second in command of the Akritas organisation and 15 years older than Papadopoullos. (Papadopoullos had been only 28 years old when the Akritas plan was drafted.) Bananiot was and is a fervent supporter of Klerides politics and a supporter of his government for the previous 10 years before Papadopoullos. He never criticised Klerides then and he never criticises him now, in this forum. He always supported his (Klerides) choices together with the political party that Bananiot is a member of, and which had formed a collision government with him for 10 years. For 10 years he never said a word against the Akritas plan and Klerides role in it. For the 10 years that his party was part of Klerides government, him and his party never asked Klerides, who also acted after 1974 as the political Houser of the “EOKA B” boys, to give an account or resign due to his involvement in the Akritas organisation. Now, because others are in power, he remembers every day the Akritas plan and the relationship of Papadopoullos to it.
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