by BirKibrisli » Thu Dec 29, 2005 2:49 am
People,I am amazed you still believe there can be "winners" in any war.
You are so entrenched in your positions that you have lost the sight of the big picture.
Zan,tell me how us TCs were the winners of this war?Do you think you are a winner?You have lost one of your fundamental human rights,the right not to be displaced from your place of birth,from your family property.Others,including a large number of Cypriotgreeks,have paid a higher prize,they lost their lives,the ultimate sacrifice.
Am I the winner,or my mother whose family lost all their land and all their properties,who has not been to her birthplace for 38 years?
I have lived most of my life in Australia,a nice enough country but not my own,dreaming about one single wallnut tree I used to climb,the plum trees i used to eat off,and my fig trees,non of which are now standing.
What have I won Zan,the right to die 20,000 kms away from where my little brothers are buried?
When are we going to realise that all of us Cypriots,or for whose who still insist there is no such nationality,Cypriotturks and Cypriotgreeks,are the victims in this terrible tragedy we have stupidly helped bring onto our homeland?When will we stop trying to blame the other for everything that happened?The only way out of this mess is to stop and see the other just as much a victim as ourselves.Not someone to pour hatred on.Then we might get somewhere.We might begin to see that when one of us is killed,when one of us is chased away from their home,when one of us is subjected to human right violations,every one of us is guilty,everyone of us is somewhat less of a human being for letting it happen.
Let us wake up,remove our blindfolds,tear down the walls which are in our minds.We are one people and one nation,and if we don't help care for each other and our country,there will be less and less of us and less and less of our country left.