by Agios Amvrosios » Tue Jan 17, 2006 1:06 am
Killings of innocent Greek cypriots by TMT were common during during the final years of the British colonial period. The bombings and killings aimed to instigate ethnic divisions as a subtefuge for the future Taksim that was to occur in 1974. This should be understood in the backdrop of
In the ITN documentry "Britain's grim legacy" it was observed that on 12 June 1958, following the press office bomb explosion, British security forces randomly rounded up eight Greek Cypriots from the village of Kondemenos and subsequently released them near the Turkish Cypriot village of Guenyeli, approximately seven miles from where they were arrested, and a good distance from the nearest Greek villages; the released Greek Cypriots were subsequently massacred by Turkish Cypriots acting on the orders of TMT. These were the first reported inter-communal killings.
TMT purposely manufactured ethnic tension to achieve its aims. I read that there is even footage of Denktash admitting that they bombed their own offices to show that "the Turkish community of Cyprus Mattered". What a psycho!