my god pirates, where do you get you numbers from, in a car boot sale or something?! i can assure you that just 1 of the pictures of a massgrave being unrevealed was holding around 50 dead civilans, so wherever your sources are i suggest u try elsewhere, and thats definatey not a statistical assumption but graphical proof. your armenian casualty numbers are even worse then thoose of Pamuk, but anyways.....
So how 50 dead civilians in one mass grave contradict what I say?? In fact they contradict what you say, about a mass grave in every village. If that was the case you should have known 100s of such mass graves, not just one or a few. So in fact what you said now confirms what I said.
i find it very ironic that your text book phrase of "ethnic cleansing" was actually coined during the period -and for-
???
Here is the definition of ethnic cleansing:
The term ethnic cleansing refers to various policies of forcibly removing people of another ethnic group. At one end of the spectrum, it is virtually indistinguishable from forced emigration and population transfer, while at the other it merges with deportation and genocide. Didn't the Turkish troops forcibly remove people of another ethnic group from the northern part of Cyprus? Thats
EXACTLY what they did so stop denying it.
i can right now walk downstairs and get a first hand explanation of the story from my grandmother ...
I had no doubt that to become a racist Greek hater your family, and not just school, should have contributed.
and about the confusion between having pramilitaries and not having any weapons, most people were making handmade weapons and using anything they could muster, that seems to me more like a desperate attempt to survive, rather than a pre-planned, autmatic weapon assisted, assault! which i hear the greeks had, from everyone i know who used to be a paramilitarie, i do know quite a few. i even got thought how to make a rifle from a water pipe by one of them, fun piece of knowledge
Thats what they told you?
My friend, your paramilitaries were shipped weapons from Turkey. In many occasions they were setting machine-guns on top of hills and killing whomever passed from there.
No really, did you believe that they killed 100s of people with kitchen knifes?
oh and i forgot to mention (sorry i talk so much) that Lefke was being raided by the GC/G soldiers while Turkey was fighting in Girne, and thats when most of the genocide that resulted with the massgraves took place within the surrounding villages, so no the violence was no way near OVER as u have stated for a few years up until 74, get your facts straight my friend.
My facts are very straight, and you actually confirm them. Here is what I said: "In fact no TC was harmed in 1974 until
after the Turkish invasion had started"
So yes, the intercommunal conflict was between 63 and 68. In 68 the violence was
over. Then in 1974 the coup happened, but
no TC was killed by the coupists. Then five days after the coup the Turkish invasion started, and
AFTER that GCs retaliated against TCs.
Yes, a few 100s of TCs were killed by the retaliations of GCs in 1974. I condemn the killings of unarmed people, but at least you have to admit that the Turks
started it by their invasion killing
thousands of people, and raping under age girls. When the news of the Turkish atrocities in the Kerynia area spread, then some GCs retaliated with atrocities in some Turkish villages. But as always, you only know the part of the story that suits you!
