miltiades wrote:What an utterly stupid comparison by the forum's idiot .
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When EOKA started their insurgence for independence in 1955, they did not do a study on the effect of the Cypriot economy either or a study on how many people will die. They just accepted the cost for their independence."
General, you spend too much time sitting on your brains !!
hang on milti, let me correct you. eoka never uttered the word independence to this day. their word they used was self-determination and it was very specific for a political reason. if they said independence how would they explain enosis afterwards?
of course eoka did not make any calculations on the effect fighting will cause on the economy as their main target was british soldiers. they started killing gcs who worked for the british and that would still have minimal effect in cyprus. the situation changed when they started attacking first the tc police and auxiliaries as well as civilians who worked for the military. this was incredibly stupid thing to do under any circumstances. even if the tcs who worked for the british were responsible for torture of the suspects and even used in hanging those who were found guilty. It is always those who order these actions that are responsible first and foremost. they should have known this would tear the two communities into two. unfortunately you were blessed with the stupidest leader in the world. and here we are still divided after 64 years. who is to blame for this? you can go back to its root for killing the first tc policeman. that was the seed that germinated.