[/code][/quote]LENA wrote:Viewpoint wrote:Pyrpolizer wrote:It reminds me of 1974 when your "peace forces" from Turkey were hunging a Christian cross on the necks of poor TCs just to ridicule them for their spoken Turkish.
Do you knoe how many TC women and girls your "peace forces" from Turkey have raped in 1974 VP?
Tell us ho oracle and make the data independent....links please?RAPE Relevant Article:- No one shall be subjected to torture or to in-human or degrading treatment or punishment.
Charge:- Turkish troops were responsible for wholesale and repeated rapes of women of all ages from 12 to 71. Sometimes to such an extent that the victims suffered haemorrhages or became mental wrecks. In some areas, enforced prostitution was practised, all women and girls of a village being collected and put into separate rooms in empty houses where they were raped repeatedly.
In certain cases members of the same family were repeatedly raped, some of them in front of their own children. In other cases women were brutally raped in public.
Rapes were on many occasions accompanied by brutality such as violent biting of the victims, causing severe wounding, banging their heads on the floor and wringing their throats almost to the point of suffocation. In some cases attempts to rape were followed by the stabbing or killing of the victims, including pregnant and mentally-retarded women.
Evidence given to Commission:- Testimony of doctors C and H, who examined the victims. Eye-witnesses and hearsay witnesses also gave evidence, and the Commission had before it written statements from 41 alleged victims.
Dr H said he had confirmed rape in 70 cases, including:-
• A mentally-retarded girl of 24 was raped in her house by 20 soldiers. When she started screaming they threw her from the second floor window. She fractured her spine and was paralysed.
• One day after their arrival at Voni, Turks took girls to a nearby house and raped them. ? One woman from Voni was raped on three occasions by four persons each time. She became pregnant.
• One girl, from Palekythrou, who was held with others in a house, was taken out at gun point and raped.
• At Tanvu, Turkish soldiers tried to rape a 17 year-old girl. She resisted and was shot dead.
• A woman from Gypsou told Dr H that 25 girls were kept by Turks at Marathouvouno as prostitutes.
Another witness said his wife was raped in front of their children. Witness S told of 25 girls who complained to Turkish officers about being raped and were raped again by the officers. A man (name withheld) reported that his wife was stabbed in the neck while resisting rape. His grand-daughter, aged six, had been stabbed and killed by Turkish soldiers attempting to rape her.
A Red Cross witness said that in August 1974, while the island’s telephones were still working, the Red Cross Society received calls from Palekythrou and Kaponti reporting rapes. The Red Cross also took care of 38 women released from Voni and Gypsou detention camps; all had been raped, some in front of their husbands and children. Others had been raped repeatedly, or put in houses frequented with Turkish soldiers.
These women were taken to Akrotiri hospital, in the British Sovereign Base Area, where they were treated. Three were found to be pregnant. Reference was also made to several abortions performed at the base.
Commission’s verdict:- By 12 votes to one the Commission found "that the incidents of rape described in the cases referred to and regarded as established constitute "in-human treatment" and thus violations of Article 3 for which Turkey is responsible under the Convention."
http://www.greece.org/cyprus/Takism4.htm
Appears to be a very indpendent and unbiased source Lena. Even if 1% of these events are true it is still a disgrace and I personally wish it never happened no one deserves this type of treatment. But we cant turn back the clock all we can do is learn from our mistakes and not put ourselves in such a explosive position ever again. Thats why the last 33 years have been the best in terms of living peacefully since the formation of the "RoC" lets hope this continues and no one has to endure such horrors ever again.
