Demonax wrote: What kind of absurdly distorted version of Cypriot history are you trying to push?
Maybe should ask Loucas Charalambous that question ?
Demonax wrote:What I cannot tolerate are absurd arguments and a complete ignorance of history.
As is your understanding of the so-called 'Akritas Plan' which had nothing to do with ethnic cleansing and everything to do with protecting the island from a possible Turkish invasion and changing the constitution to make it more democratic in order to reflect the will of the majority of the population.
No where do I claim the Akritas plan was a plan for ethnic cleansing. I claim the Akritas plan was what it was. Namely a SECRET plan to ILLEGALY remove the TC communities legal rights, using deceit and deception and where necessary illegal force against them. You do NOT make a country 'more democratic' by creating SECRET plans this. You talk about ignorance of history and distortion of history and then portray this secret plans, by the state itself, that lays out the use of illegal force against a section of its own population as somehow 'justified' as a mean to make the country 'more democratic' Are you insane ?
Demonax wrote:You cannot even acknowledge that the 1960 Constitution had become unworkable because the Turks were exploiting its provisions to create crisis, collapse the state and to bring about partition.
I do not deny that there were elements within the TC leadership that sought to prove the 60 constitution was unworkable, just as there were elements within the GC leadership with exactly the same agenda. What you seem incapable of understanding or accepting is the actions of the GC leadership (like the akritas pan), rather than weaken and undermine such elements only served to strength and support it.
Demonax wrote:Instead you gloss over all the evidence that the Turkish Cypriot leadership were in league with Turkey to partition the island and you demand we apologise for resisting the belligerence of Turkey and the insurrection of their proxies in our midst.
You did not 'resist plots by TC and Turkey to divide the island'. You sought to achieve enosis without having to pay any regard for the rights of TC to have a say in this fundamental change to their lives in their own shared homeland and you sought to do so by use of illegal violence and deception and deceit when legal means had failed to deliver enosis. In doing so you strengthened and increased those in the TC community and Turkey who sought partition to a degree that partition (also not achievable by any legal means) became not just possible but an actuality.
Demonax wrote:I'm all for truth and reconciliation but before there can be reconciliation there must first be truth. I will leave apologies to useful idiots like Loukas Charalambous who tells you want to hear. You clearly are satisfied with that. So there's very little more to say.
Indeed truth must come before reconciliation. However it does seem to me that you do not want 'truth' so much as you want 'your truth and only your truth', which is why we still are not further towards reconciliation than ever I suppose.