MR-from-NG wrote:Maximus wrote:MR-from-NG wrote:OK, I accept your comments as true and have one question for you. In all that you learnt from books and asking questions, was there any mention of any injustice the TC's may have suffered? I would expect with such thorough research something by someone, a book maybe would at least make reference to injustice/injustices TC would have suffered. Perhaps you can make a list of what you heard/learned about these injustices.
Look,
I know that there was approximately the same amount of people killed on each side.
Without going in to the details of every single case, that is just unrealistic.
But,
injustice's existed on both sides. People suffered on both sides. It was a war.
That should be common sense.
No no no. You misunderstood my question. I was not referring to war time injustices or deaths. My question is for injustices after the declaration of independence and the announcement of RoC. I honestly believe such extensive research would've revealed such injustices, if there are none then I would question your source/sources of information.
The injustices with the so called "independence" were all against the Greek Cypriots. The so called "independence" that was forced on Cyprus included foreign armies, foreign sovereign bases of the colonialists, foreign "guarantors", foreign judges of the supreme court... does this sound like "independence" to you? Do you know any other independent country that has such things? And on top of that, the 18% minority was given veto powers, 30% of the civil servants positions (and you know that in Cyprus everybody wants to be a civil servant), 40% of the police etc etc. There were proposals for the reform of this "independence" which the Colonialists forced on us by blackmail. Your community rejected the reforms and responded with violence.
We are aware of your casualties during that period, but you were not the only side to have casualties in this period, and this was not the only period of Cyprus history. If we add everything together then you have caused A LOT more casualties and suffering to us than the other way around. Now you are selectively using the past in order to excuse more crimes against us and then you wonder why you are hated!!
Like Maximus I hardly learned anything from school regarding the Cyprus problem. I learned as much about it as I learned French. Most of what I know I learned from my own research (which includes this forum). I am fully aware of how much and for how long you suffered and I recognize it. But at the same time I know about the suffering of GCs, which was more and for far longer periods. Therefore the past can not be used as an excuse by you.
So if you want a solution lets agree to something which is
FAIR now.
If you want to gain on our expense because you are supposedly the "good" people that need to be rewarded on the expense of the "bad" people, then there will be no solution and you will be deservingly hated.