sadik wrote:Kifeas, their names have been given to RoC authorities and official complaints have also been filed in some cases, such as Tohni. Even before any complains being filed, their names were well known on both sides. OF course everybody knows that nothing will come out of these complaints, ever.
The whole thing is very simple, actually. We (as Cypriots) will not punish our own (a GC or a TC) for their crimes against the other community, because the others are still enemies and objects of hatered in our eyes, and we will not touch "our own" for what they did to our enemies. Even though "our own" here are sick cold blooded murderers. So the murderers will continue to roam on our streets. As usual...
Sadik, I do not dispute at all what you are saying, even though the main reason behind it is not because of the fact that those murdered are members of the other community that needs to be kept seeing as the enemy. I do not think that this is (at least) the GC approach, as such, since I do not think this is the view and sentiments that are tried to be maintained among the GC community versus the TC community. The main reason is the fear of the propaganda exploitation that such a move may entail, from the part of the (each) other side.
This is the reason for example why the Turkish side did not proceed to the exhumation of bodies of missing people for so many years. i.e. the fear that should it is proved that GCs were massed murdered by the Turkish Army, this will be used against them by the GC side that will now have evidence from the mouth's house that they Turkish Army or TC paramilitaries indeed committed crimes, and this will also somehow overshadow their own propaganda which is based on the fact that what happened in Cyprus was due to what the GCs did against the TCs, as it is portrayed for example through the “museum of Barbarity” or the mass graves of Maratha /Sardalli in the north. This is why for example the GC side reacted against Angastiniotis documentary, and this is why those mostly using Angastiniotis documentary are no one else other than the propaganda circles of the Turkish /TC side (ATCA, etc.) In other words, it is the fear of offering propaganda ammunition to the other side to hit back that makes the fait of missing people un-investigated, the non excavations of areas indicated for mass graves, the proper invastication punishment of murderers "unfeasible," and the truth to be exposed through documentaries or other evidence, especially if they come from people of one's own side, unwanted.
Nevertheless, if the names of those people are known and were given to the RoC authorities, and they in their turn refuse to investigate them properly and on time, there is always the local courts road against the government, as well as the ECHR road, for these people, and I believe they should not back down on this no matter what.
