What was different is that for a couple of decades the Turks did not have the exclusivity in committing crimes like they did for the most part of our common history before and after those years.
In fact GCs had condemned that 1/100th of crimes they have committed. Unfortunally the Turks not only they have not condemned the 100 times more crimes they committed, not only they celebrate them, they insist on crimes and illegalities as we speak.
The Gcs were the major force then in Cyprus, they alone had the power to guarantee freedom and equality for all its citizens, both Greek AND Turk.
Wrong. The constidution that was forced on the Cypriot people and was not a result of their own will, had discrimination "build-in". In fact when Greek Cypriots proposed that discriminations such as that the 18% of people should have 30% of governmental jobs, should be removed to make Cyprus a place were all citizens would be equal with equal opportunities, Turkey and TCs rejected these proposals.
Therefore as you can see it was not up to the GCs alone to create equality among all citizens. It was up to the TCs also, and they have unfortunately rejected it.
We must all at some stage recognise our past mistakes and leave them behind us, if we are ever to move on.
This is what I always say. I never asked for the punishment of any TC (or even Turk) for their crimes of the past. What I always say is that we should leave the past behind and move ahead with human rights and democracy for all, and without the racist discriminations that plaque our island since the time of the Ottoman rule.
