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Confessions of former EOKA member: Turkish Cypriots raped, killed


67-year-old Andreas Dimitriu says men in a Turkish Cypriot village were killed and women were raped by Greek Cypriot soldiers and members of his underground group three decades ago

ANKARA - Turkish Daily News

A former member of a Greek Cypriot underground group defending the unification of the island with Greece has confessed in remarks to the media that the group, along with Greek Cypriot soldiers, had raped women and killed men of a Turkish Cypriot village during a campaign of attacks on the Turkish population of Cyprus three decades ago.
The group, the National Organization of Cypriot Fighters (EOKA), launched attacks on Turkish Cypriots during the 1960s and early 1970s in a violent campaign aimed at enosis, or unification of Cyprus with Greece. Andreas Dimitriu, a 67 year-old Greek Cypriot who was a member of EOKA-B, an offshoot of EOKA, during the period of ethnic violence on the island, confessed in a media interview that he had helped to gather men of the Turkish Cypriot village of Tohni (Tas¸kent) in a coffee house.
The men were later taken away by EOKA-B members entering the village, and all but one male Turkish Cypriot had been killed, Dimitriu told Greek Cypriot newspaper Alithia on Sunday.

He, however, said that he was unaware that the Turkish Cypriot men were to be killed and that he learned their fate a few days afterward.
Turkish Cypriot women of the village were then raped by Greek Cypriot soldiers seeking revenge on Turkish Cypriots, he also said.
“Such things were happening at that time. What did we do that was different from what was going on all over Cyprus?” he asked.
The confessions came after a Turkish Cypriot woman who had survived the Greek Cypriot violence in Tas¸kent village identified Dimitriu during an earlier interview with the same newspaper as the person who had taken away her father.

Her father was among those killed by EOKA-B members in the village.
Dimitriu said he had thought the men rounded up in the village’s coffee house would be held captive in order to get some Greek Cypriots held by Turkish Cypriots released and said that he had no idea that these men were to be killed.
“We were given the instruction to round up all the men capable of fighting to be used for the exchange of Greek Cypriot captives. We did whatever we did together with the legal forces of the state,” Dimitriu said.

Denktas¸: Confessions are striking

Turkish Cypriot President Rauf Denktas¸ described Dimitriu’s remarks as “highly striking” and added that it was a positive development that Greek Cypriots have started talking about the past.
Denktas¸ also said Greek Cypriots should apologize to Turkish Cypriots for the events of 1963-1974.
Turkey intervened in Cyprus in 1974 to end attacks on Turkish Cypriots as part of the bloody enosis campaign of the era, backed by the then ruling military junta in Greece.

[brother]

Now that these confessions are coming will there be a tribunial to punish the murderers of innocent cypriots.

[pantelis]

Now that these confessions are coming will there be a tribunial to punish the murderers of innocent cypriots?

Let's assume ththat the answer is yes;
Is the Turkish side going to follow suit? Are all innocent refugees going be allowed to return to their properties?
Is the the Turkish army going to return to Anatolia, where it belongs?
Are all mine-fields going to be removed from the Cypriots fields?
Are we going to have peace and harmony in Cyprus?

[metecyp]

Let's assume ththat the answer is yes;
Is the Turkish side going to follow suit? Are all innocent refugees going be allowed to return to their properties?
Is the the Turkish army going to return to Anatolia, where it belongs?
Are all mine-fields going to be removed from the Cypriots fields?
Are we going to have peace and harmony in Cyprus?

Can't we have a tribunal to punish TC/GC murderers that killed innocent civilians without worrying too much about the next steps? At least we would have murderers removed from the societies on both sides and nobody would be able to blame the whole society for wrongdoings of a few members of it. I think this itself would be revolutionary.

[brother]

This was what i was saying hence my statement cypriots and not gc or tc, war crimes are crimes whoever commited them as you all know EOKA killed lots of gc as well.

[MicAtCyp]

Sener Levent wrote today in Politis:
"While the Eoka man confensed the TMT man still keeps silent....

[metecyp]

Sener Levent wrote today in Politis:
"While the Eoka man confensed the TMT man still keeps silent....

It's true, but I believe it will change sooner or later.

[brother]

Eventually all will be responsible for there crimes or otherwise all cypriots human rights are effectively crushed.

[Bananiot]

http://www.politis-news.com/cgibin/hweb ... iki&-p&-w=

In the link above, those of you that can read greek can find a documented article by Makarios Droushiotis in which he uncovers the role played by Papadopoulos during the EOKA period when he was calling for the traitors of AKEL to pay with death their treachery. The man has not chaned one iota since then. Today he labels his political opponents as traitors and paid servants of the Americans.

[Piratis]

Anastasiades is a traitor. I am saying this, and I am not Papadopoulos. And many others say the same, and they are not Papadopoulos either.
Traitors exist, and they are paid well, I have absolutely no doubt about it.
Thats my opinion (and I repeat: I am not Papadopoulos )