apologise because in the process of enosis we compltely ignored or attacked the tcs. dont get me wrong on this. i never said that if i lived back then i would be in a position to think differently. most probably i would have also supported enosis. viewing history from 2005 it seems wrong.
"We, the death stricken widows whose husbands were murdered by the masked men on the night of 21st January, we who shed bitter tears for the loss of our protectors consider it necessary to forward an appeal to every Greek Cypriot, and generally to the responsible political leaders of the country.
The death of our beloved ones fell upon us like a heavy block of stones. Our eyes are still wet with bitter tears. We never thought that murderers would be so cowardly and without any reason make us dress in black, and deprive our children of their father.
The widows declared that their husbands were not criminals but affectionate fathers and husbands and honest patriots 'working tirelessly in the ranks of the Trade Unions and the people's movement for the achievement of self-determination, for the return of the Archbishop and the solution of all the problems which subject our country to hard- ships', and that their husbands had been killed solely because of their membership of the left-wing party:
Do the murderers not understand that the method of political murders is fratricide ? Do they not realise that to achieve the extermination of the Left-wing party and the Trade Union Movement thousands of women will be dressed in black, and that thousands of innocent children will be deprived of their fathers? Do they not realise that such madness will lead us to civil war?
The murders set in motion the cycle of recriminations. Faced with the rising hostility of the people, EOKA tried to justify the incidents by alleging that the EOKA men were forced to open fire in self-defence, that EOKA's blows were aimed at traitors irrespective of political ideologies, and that no plan existed to exterminate the left wing as a whole. The apologies concluded with the familiar accusation of AKEL's cooperation with the British. But the volume of left-wing protests
continued to rise. AKEL challenged EOKA to accept the verdict of an independent commission set up by the people to investigate the allegations against the left, and offered to discredit and publicly expel from the Party any Akelist found guilty of treason. At the same time AKEL stressed the danger of partition, the need for unity and the avoidance of incidents likely to spark off civil war."
And if that was your father they murdered would you still think that EOKA were right.
Again just to put the record straight.
Source, didn,t quite get the link about your name. Are you part of main source or you just use thier name?
