Just to give anyone that might be interested to know I list below some personal facts.
I was born in Cyprus in may 1946.
When the struggle for independence commenced on April 1st 1955 I was approaching my 9th birthday. I fully supported the struggle against British occupation and still do now.
At the age of 12 in 1958 I took the oath and joined the youth movement of EOKA called ANE.
The struggle ended a year later 1959, in 1960 Cyprus became an independent nation, I was then 14 years old.
I attended the Lanition Gymnasion until the end of term in 1961 finishing third class.
In those years one had to pay for tuition.
My father was having a great deal of hardship bringing up on his own 4 children.
I decided in the summer of 1961 that it was
Necessary for me to leave Cyprus and the UK was my best option. Although my father steadfastly refused to sign my passport application, I managed , through the help of my late godfather, obtain a Cyprus passport, worked hard in the summer months, saved enough for my boat journey and presented my father with my documents telling him Im going to London.
This guy that I dislike immensely , the one I call pervert, has continually insinuated that I somehow ....did a runner from Cyprus. In 1961 , 2 years after the end of the struggle I was barely 15 years old. I sweated my guts out doing hard labour work to save up and go to the UK. This imbassil has on numerous occasions posted articles concerning my departure from Cyprus as if it was to dodge the army, conscription was introduced 2 years later in 1963.
I posted a number of times that following the 1953 earthquake and our being taken to the Limassol orphanage, we received a lot of support from ENGLISH ladies who would almost daily pass by and sharing out treats to the boys and girls living in the orphanage.
Why do I detest this individual?
Firstly he absolutely hates the West, secondly he fully supported Isis and their gruesome acts, exuberabt each time some barbaric act was perpetrated by these savages, he posted a thread on this forum titled "Sling them high" referring to a gay guy that these barbarians slung to his death from the top of a building. He also exonerated the massacre of British and other tourists in Tunisia. I hate what this pervert stands for. As for the other one, the one I call General, our relationship was ok up until the Syrian war. On entering the debate of this particular thread on the Syrian war, page 15 back a few years back
I sternly opposed the West's involvement particularly it's demand that Assad should step down.
This guy, the general, i have always consideted to be a good guy but very immature and rather naive. Insecure too.
This particular thread that I started in May of last year was intended to offer not only readers but those diaspora Cypriots who may sometime in the near future do some research on what it feels like coming back to Cyprus after 56 years. I have always loved Cyprus and so did my late English wife who , on her own wish, is burried in Limassol.
I shall continue recording my time in Cyprus and will ignore parasites.
Almost a year since coming to Cyprus, am I happy, Im deliriously happy, the best year of my life, I criticize some aspects of Cyprus ir driving, but I beleive this island to be an absolute Paradise. By the way i do not beleive in mythological religion of any sort.