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[Mapko]

so is there a single village north of the border where everybody got killed yes or no.

There probably is - and those whole villages you weren't able to slaughter, you moved down to the south.

[Lordo]

incredible there are 4 turkish cypriot villages wiped out to the child and not one greek cypriot village in the north. now who is the most barbaric of the nations of cyprus.

[kimon07]

Mass Grave of Cypriots Killed by Turks Found
By Stella Tsolakidou on September 14, 2012 in Cyprus, News

The Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP) said it has discovered a new mass grave with Greek-Cypriot victims of the Attila II Operation, the Turkish invasion in 1974, close to Hamit Mandres, a city north of the occupied Nicosia.

CMP said this case is the biggest mass grave discovered to date and concerns Greek-Cypriots who were thought to be missing. Exhumation works have already begun and the first bones extracted were identified as belonging to fallen or executed Greek-Cypriot soldiers, who were trapped behind the broken defense line in the region of Mia Milia on August 14, 1974, during the Attila II Operation

Another mass grave has been found in the area of Trichoni (on the old road connecting Nicosia and Famagusta,) where the youngest missing person so far has been exhumed. The months-old baby (born in 1974) retrieved was, according to testimony taken from its mother and slaughtered by the invading Turks. The grave also contained the bones of the child’s mother, her 11-year-old sister, her mother and the father of the child who has been identified as Andreas Kyriakou.
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2012/09 ... rks-found/

[kimon07]

not heard of murataga atlilar sandallilar......

Did these vilages have proper names? Maybe if you give us their proper names we will be able to trace something and answer your questions.

[kimon07]

not heard of murataga atlilar sandallilar......

Did these villages have proper names? Maybe if you give us their proper names we will be able to trace something and answer your questions.

This is what AKEL had to say about the alleged massacre of TCs in 1964 in the village of Agios Vassilios:
(partial translation by me)

“The unearthing of Turkish bodies from the cemetery of Ag. Vassilios and the exploitation of this matter by the insurgents-Turkish soldiers, assisted by British troops, unearthed yesterday 21 bodies- Convenient propaganda by mainly foreign correspondents.”
Announcement of the representative of the government:
“During the first days of the events, Greek and Turkish wounded and dead were being brought to the General Hospital of Nicosia, besides those being taken to Greek and Turkish private clinics…etc.
Continuing, the announcement says that the hospital authorities informed the then minister of health, who was a Turkish Cypriot, as well as the TC leadership that there were 21 bodies of Turks and they should be picked up by the TCs for burial. The minister promised to see to it but nothing happened fore days. The Red Cross was also informed and was given a catalog of the dead Turks.
Because the days were passing and the bodies were not being picked up, the hospital authorities were forced to bury the bodies in the TC cemetery of Ag. Vassilios. The TC leadership was again informed about the burial. The action of the hospital authorities and mainly the burial in the TC cemetery should have been appreciated as a humane act. Instead, the TC leadership is twisting the truth and is trying to take political advantage of the facts…
(“Charavgi” 14/01/1964).

Ασέβεια στους νεκρούς

«Η εκταφή τουρκικών πτωμάτων από το τουρκικό κοιμητήριο Αγ. Βασιλείου και η εκμετάλλευση του θέματος από τους στασιαστές -Τούρκοι στρατιώτες βοηθούμενοι από βρετανικά στρατεύματα, εξέθαψαν χθες 21 πτώματα- Κατάλληλη προπαγάνδα μεταξύ κυρίως ξένων δημοσιογράφων». Ανακοίνωση του Κυβερνητικού Εκπροσώπου: «Κατά τας πρώτας ημέρας των επεισοδίων μετεφέροντο εις το Γενικόν Νοσοκομείον Λευκωσίας τραυματίαι και νεκροί, Έλληνες και Τούρκοι, εκτός των μεταφερομένων εις ελληνικάς και τουρκικάς ιδιωτικάς κλινικάς. Τοιουτοτρόπως μετεφέρθησαν εις το Γεν. Νοσοκομείον 52 Έλληνες τραυματίαι και 16 Έλληνες νεκροί ως και 5 Τούρκοι τραυματίαι και 21 Τούρκοι νεκροί. Αμέσως αι νοσοκομειακαί αρχαί ειδοποίησαν τον Υπουργόν Υγείας, όστις είναι Τούρκος, καθώς και την τ/κ ηγεσίαν, διά την παραλαβήν των πτωμάτων των Τούρκων. Ούτοι απήντησαν ότι θα προέβαινον εις διευθετήσεις διά την παραλαβήν των πτωμάτων. Επίσης ειδοποιήθη ο Ερυθρός Σταυρός, εις τον οποίον επεδόθη και κατάλογος των νεκρών.
»Επειδή αι ημέραι παρήρχοντο και ήρχισεν ήδη η αποσύνθεσις των πτωμάτων και η δυσοσμία, το Νοσοκομείον ηναγκάσθη να προβή εις ταφήν των πτωμάτων, την οποίαν και έκαμεν εις το τουρκικόν νεκροταφείον του Αγίου Βασιλείου. Περί τούτου ειδοποίησε πάλιν την τ/κ ηγεσία. Η ενέργεια αύτη των νοσοκομειακών αρχών και ιδιαιτέρως η ταφή εις το τουρκικόν κοιμητήριον πρέπει να εκτιμηθή ως πράξις ανθρωπιστική. Αντί τούτου, η τ/κ ηγεσία, διαστρεβλώνουσα την αλήθειαν, προσπαθεί να εκμεταλλευθή πολιτικώς το γεγονός, επιδεικνύουσα τοιουτοτρόπως ασέβειαν και προς τους Τούρκους νεκρούς». («Χαραυγή» 14/01/1964)

See what more AKEL had to say about the TC insurgency.

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http://www.sigmalive.com/news/politics/116326

[repulsewarrior]

...kimon, it brought back chilling memories and the sadness for those alive wrenches my heart, i wonder what i can/will do, ending this misery.

...this!, this ain't glee. (thanks, again)

...it would have been nice if the apologies were reciprocal, when Christofias made his for the Cypriot people who were brutally murdered or are missing only because they were not Greeks. the abuse these island dwellers suffered because of Ignorance is still denied as long as we remain divided, as "Greeks" and "Turks". Bicommunal works now with a change of thinking, just as it was in villages then, when it came time for the harvest, or to make their cheese, they did these together.

...Concert for Peace, was Eroglu there? in a way he was, but not on the same side; let's think about that.