Paphitis wrote:hang on a mo how come eoka started killing brits then if they were so good for you.
strangley your ancestors said the same thing about the osmanlis when they saved to from the venetians. what bit of luck all your saviours turn out to be oppressors.
I often ask the same question and believe the EOKA campaign was premature and unnecessary.
The struggle was legitimate and morally justified following the statement by Britain that Cyprus would NEVER be granted independence.
The end goal was, in my opinion, wrong. The struggle should have had as its goal the independence of Cyprus from Britain, embracing in the struggle all Cypriots.
Justified, it sure was, premature ? Another story.
1. The British stated that Cyprus would never be granted independence.
2. The British moved their Middle East Headquarters to Cyprus in December 1954, making it clear that they intended to stay on the island for the immediate future. The main MI6 station for Middle East was based in Nicosia, and the Middle East High Command in Episcope. Permanent radio-signal monitoring stations were placed on Aghios Nicolaos and Mount Troodos, Olympus and Pergamos. British radio stations targeting Arab populations in the Middle East transmitted from Cyprus. The Arab Near East Radio Station transmit from Polemydia, and its signal reached as far as Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, Northern Egypt, and parts of Saudi Arabia. A source of British propaganda, this station was a major means of PSYOP against the Arabs. Cyprus was a key island for London and Washington during the Cold War, a military and data collection base for the wider region of Eastern Mediterranean
3. The United Nations refused to consider the question of Cyprus independence.