Matt 23:13 "But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!..”
http://www.bible-history.com/pharisees/ ... risees.htm
Since the beginning of time, in all countries around the world, during war time, the punishment for treason, collaboration with the enemy, defection to the enemy and desertion was, is and will always be DEATH. Under a state of revolution the authority to pass judgment and order the penalty is none other than the military leadership of the revolutionaries.
Those guilty of treason, collaboration etc, are NOT fellow citizens. They are scum of the earth who tried to harm their fellow citizens and the cause of their fellow citizens and their nation as a whole for money or other cheap reasons. And therefore, they deserve to die.
As to the question whether the particular twelve (8+4) AKEL members executed by EOKA were indeed collaborators, as EOKA insists, or not, as AKEL says, my answer is very simple.
1. It is the word of the gallant freedom fighters of EOKA, against the word of the professional forgers of history such as AKEL, the TMT and the representatives of colonialism and neo-colonialism. Easy choice. I believe EOKA.
2. EOKA had no reason and no intention to be killing innocent fellow Cypriots just because they were members or followers of AKEL. Firstly, because EOKA was formed to fight the British, not to launch an anti-communist or anti-AKEL campaign. Secondly, because, contrary to what some SHIT in this forum claim or suggest, EOKA fighters and EOKA members, such as Clerides and Tassos Papadopoulos and other prominent Greek Cypriots, were not murderous thugs who enjoyed killing unarmed innocent fellow Cypriots. They were brave men who decided to die fighting alone against an Empire. Such brave men don’t murder innocent people for fun or for their political beliefs. Such were and still are the practices of the communists all over the world. Not of Freedom Fighters.