http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20302280
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho ... 73867.html
During the state of emergency, from 1952 to 1957, the British army used torture.
Cypriot Nicos Koshies: "They took me to the Special Branch and they started beating me. They took off all my clothes, they tied my hands and feet. They asked somebody to come in. He was taking a stick to put up my bottom, he was putting cloths in water and putting them on my face so I could not breathe, he threw me down and danced on my stomach when he was wearing boots. After 12 days I could not recognise myself."
James Callaghan in the House of Commons: "On 29 June 1957 an inquest was held into the death of Nicos Georghiou. Dr Clearkin said in evidence that bruises in the head were sufficiently severe to have caused the injuries to the brain, perhaps bumping the head against a hard object."
http://aangirfan.blogspot.com.au/2005/0 ... using.html
You can't turn back the clock, but it would mean a great deal to the families of the executed to have their convictions overturned. None received a fair trial...
No one wants any compensation. Money will never bring them back. These individuals were old school Cypriots which sadly are rarer in this day and age, who would have married, had children and so forth. That is the real loss. Even STUD would love to have anyone of them in his family tree. The don't make men like that anymore.
Brits should hang their head in shame. The British people really do need to understand what their country did was wrong. That is all we want. And a bit of respect to their memory of those lost...
No one has disrespected the lost British Servicemen who also deserve to be remembered, but I think a bit of respect to our own is well overdue from Britain. Is this too much to ask?
The word terrorism is very misused unfortunately!
