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[tsukoui]

Dear Comrade,

I have been somewhat disappointed with Xinhua's coverage of Cyprus for some time now.

This latest article is case in point.

You write:

"Anastasiades, the Democratic Rally party candidate, won 45.46 percent of the votes, followed by ruling left-wing AKEL party candidate Malas who gained 26.91 percent of the votes. Independent candidate George Lillikas took the third place with 24.93 percent of the votes."

Malas is in fact as independent a candidate as Lillikas. Malas is an independent candidate backed by the Communist Party AKEL and Lillikas is an independent candidate backed by the Socialist Party EDEK.

Thus the total left-wing vote is more than the right-wing vote.

However you would not get this impression from what you have written which is just mimicking the spin of the capitalist press.

You should identify AKEL as a Communist Party, not merely a left-wing party.

The article goes on to completely focus on Anastasiades. It is true that Anastasiades is the favourite to win because EDEK squabbles with AKEL so much, but I would have thought you would show more solidarity with Communist AKEL and give a more balanced picture of the two candidates. Instead you barely mention Malas, let alone what he stands for.

Cyprus has good relations with China, and I remain in support of the Chinese Communist Party. I am disappointed you do not show more support for your comrades in Cyprus instead of following the lead of the capitalist press.

In solidarity,

Tsukoui

[Get Real!]

Well I’m told they get their information on Cyprus from Xomonia!

[kurupetos]

Well I’m told they get their information on Cyprus from Xomonia!

[Cap]

We spent 23 years fighting you Commie scum bags in Angola.
Not even communist Russia was prepared for the bitchslapping at the hands of our Special Forces.
Our only 'political' ally was the United States and that was with great reluctance.

[tsukoui]

We spent 23 years fighting you Commie scum bags in Angola.
Not even communist Russia was prepared for the bitchslapping at the hands of our Special Forces.
Our only 'political' ally was the United States and that was with great reluctance.

So now we have it, you are a South African racist reveling in nostalgia for the old apartheid state.

Anyway, as I understand it you got beat by the combined forces of Cuba and Angola (without the help of the Russians I might add) and that was what brought about the release of Mandela.

[Cap]

Embarrassing for the free world I know.
If only the US gave us military support.
But we couldn't do it all by ourselves, we held them at bay and kept South Africa clean for decades.

Few against many.
Dedicated to the South African fallen fighting the Communists.

[GreekIslandGirl]

But we couldn't do it all by ourselves, we held them at bay and kept South Africa clean for decades.

Cap, I find it hard to square your attitude to keeping the native South Africans under foreign colonial rule with your support of a whole Cyprus, free from foreign subjugation.

[Cap]

What foreign colonial rule?

You mean the Dutch settlers?
They preceded the northern Africans who later moved down to find work.
Cape Town was uninhabited at the time.

[GreekIslandGirl]

What foreign colonial rule?

You mean the Dutch settlers?
They preceded the northern Africans who later moved down to find work.
Cape Town was uninhabited at the time.

Can't you see that's exactly what the Turk settlers will say one day about the northern part of Cyprus? "It was relatively uninhabited at the time - just a few Greek peasants, now we have a +million+ Turks." It was ethnically cleansed, for goodness sake!

[kurupetos]

Africa for Africans and Europe for Europeans. Multiculturalism, etc. is the source of evil, war and discrimination.