Kikapu wrote:Kifeas,
Just because the Akritas plan did not spell out every detail as to what was the "plan" for the Turkish Cypriots, you must know in your heart, that there were no positives for the TC's. The "plan" had it's purpose which was to be carried out step by step as not to create a major chances over night, and with each step forward, would have meant one step closer for the TC's final outcome, whether it meant to be killed or leave the island. I'm sure, TC's leaving the island would have been preferred by the "plan", as not to create huge backlash form abroad.
I like to know from you, since you and Piratis and others do not buy into the "plan", how do you explain the events of 1963-1974. The "plan" had to have ignited the "fire" I talked about earlier, which you seem to have dismissed it, by blaming other doing it. You, Piratis and me see George bush as untrusworthy, where's Miltiades and few others see him very trustworthy. Of all the lies Bush talked about regarding Iraq, half the country still support him, so is it possible, you just do not want to accept that Makarios or PappaD and others could have had any such "plan" against the TC's, because you yourself could not imagine doing it, to your fellow country men.
There was another plan that was written back in June 3rd, 1997, by NeoCons of the USA, regarding Iraq and the Middle East that no one knew about until recently, that was written by major players in Bushes administration, including, Cheyney, Rumsfield, Wolfowittz, Jeb Bush, Dan Quayle and many others. So the Iraq invasion was decided back in 1997 and not as Miltiades likes to believe after 911. That was just the spring board for the attack. The plan is called "PNAC", "Project for the New American Century". If you google it, you will have a great deal to know what the plan was all about. You can also
www.newamericancentury.org . "Plan's" usually have more hidden agendas than one would like to believe.
Kikapu, if you believe that mere speculation as to what the GC leadership’s deeper intentions may have been, is enough to allow you or anyone else to write history in a way in which a victimizing stigma will be left against the GC community for having conspired to “annihilate” the TC community, then you must know that we will never allow you or anyone else to promote such an objective. We will not allow you to do that, mainly for two reasons. The first and most important is because it is not based on any concrete evidence, but it is rather based on a whole series of assumptions and to a large extent skewed and far stretched interpretations of facts. You have the right to present, analyze and criticize any and all of the actual facts and events, but you have no right to invent, imply and impose facts and events based on perceptions and deliberate misrepresentation or deliberate and skewed misinterpretation of other facts and events. This is not how history is written!
The second reason we will not allow this to happen, is because we know for certain that the reason the above is happening is because there is an imperative need to incriminate and victimize the GC side, due to a need to legitimize and eventually also legalize (if this can be possible) the 1974 ethnic cleansing (and this is a fact) of the GCs from the north by Turkey, and the on-going occupation ever since; or to legitimize the appearance and facilitate the adoption of unacceptable “solution” proposals like the Annan plan.
The former (legitimization of the ethnic cleansing and occupation) is the aim of the Turkish propaganda since then (1974,) and the later (facilitate the adoption of solutions like the Annan plan) is the aim of GC people like Bananiot! Both aims are based on the need for the complete victimizing incrimination of the GC side for the past! Those from the Turkish side that engage themselves in this mission are called propagandizes! Those from the Greek Cypriot side are called traitors! Both of them though are also called history fabricators, because they base nearly all of their conclusions on mere speculations, assumptions and factual misrepresentations.
Now, the Akritas plan was indeed an evil plan aiming to usurp the separate, anyway excessive and certainly unfairly disproportional but nevertheless, constitutional rights of the Turkish community;
primarily –if not exclusively- through the introduction and use of devious, manipulating and cunning
political means and methods, for the (not the sole as such) aim of promoting enosis. It did not envision, as such, the violation of the Turkish Cypriot's individual fundamental human rights -as they are stipulated in the UN chart and the CoE human rights protocols, nor the usurping of their individualy based political rights, neither their individual and communal cultural rights, nevertheless
it did not envision their annihilation and /or their forceful expulsion from Cyprus. I am saying the above not because I want to appear as an appeaser, as someone has already suggested, of the Akritas plan, but because this is the only undeniable evidence one may extract from reading it.
Now, if because there was /is a natural fear on the part of the TCs that this may have potentially or eventually turned out to have been the outcome (annihilation or expulsion,) I am ready to acknowledge and accept the existence of such a fear, but I am not ready to accept that because of the no matter how justified perception of such a danger the TCs have had, that this was also indeed the intention and /or aim of the GC leadership, or that this is what indeed and beyond doubt would have been the final result. I feel no one is allowed to make such an unsubstantiated “concrete and absolutist” allegation against the GC leadership and the GC community in general, and to propagandize such a thing certainly constitutes a deliberate unfair historical victimization and incrimination against us, something we are not ready to allow to happen.
