Get Real! wrote:Sotos, was born sometime after 1974 so he has NO IDEA what was going on in Cyprus pre 74. Anyway...
When Grivas died in 1971 there was no second in command to take charge so for the frenzied Hellenists it was like a green light to do as they pleased, so between 71 and 74 God knows how many people were arrested, tortured and murdered for refusing to go along with Greece’s ideas.
Makarios, had a serious problem with these thugs roaming around villages at night terrorizing residents so he ordered the arrest of key members and operatives but it wouldn’t be enough for they had politicians, police, and many other key elements on their side protecting and aiding them.
It was too little too late by Makarios… for the Greek octopus had its long tentacles around ministries, the judiciary, significant portions of the police, and of course the armed forces.
Greece had stripped Cyprus of its identity and placed vast portions of the Cypriot population in a drunken stupor of chaos and rebelliousness with no regard for consequences and with no plan other than to destroy Cypriotness and replace it with some hollow Greek promise of splendor.
Eventually the fools had won… Cyprus would no longer be a nation but a group of cantons in perpetual strife.
So you insist that Greece had some magical powers to turn non Greeks into Greeks with a magical remote control that had a 700km range?
Don't you understand how stupid your argument is? Really? Most native Cypriots are Greek and those Greek speaking, Christian Orthodox people who thought they aren't were a tiny tiny minority. Until 1959, nearly all Greek Cypriots supported enosis, the only difference being that a few of them did not support an armed struggle as means to achieve it. After 1960 the majority of Cypriots accepted the compromise for the pseudo-independence that we were given, but this didn't mean they gave up their Greek ethnicity. The fact that the majority of the population of Cyprus is Greek is even written in the Cyprus constitution. Makarios and all Greek Cypriots were not any less Greek than Grivas and nobody needed any convincing to be Greek.
From the constitution of Cyprus, ARTICLE 1:
The State of Cyprus is an independent and sovereign Republic with a presidential regime, the President being Greek and the VicePresident being Turk elected by the Greek and the Turkish Communities of Cyprus respectively as hereinafter in this Constitution provided.
ARTICLE 2, paragraph 1:
(1) the Greek Community comprises all citizens of the Republic who are of Greek origin and whose mother tongue is Greek or who share the Greek cultural traditions or who are members of the GreekOrthodox Church;