humanist wrote:Lena I respect your coments though I disagree because I see that there is nothing wrong with teaching children to loe all human beings regardless of their race, language ethnicity, love is a wonderful when practised with highest of regard.
Oh and another thing I dont disagree with you for teaching respect and love for all human beings regardless all that. I am in favour and as a teacher I do used to do that...we used to have earth day and human race day. If we teach about language we dont mention only our language but languages from all over the world, if we teach about houses we dont mention only our houses we mention about igloo, Chinese house etc...and children always draw an earth with children or people holding hands with black, yellow, white children, boys and girls...(I am sorry humanist we dont mention the gay)...we teach them that we have to respect everyone, that we are all different but still we are the same, we are humans!!
But I guess is not what you had in mind with this threat right?
However, their fears are valid and to this end it is up to the politicians to come up with ways to ensure that there are structures in place to allow for peopl's safety. my suggestion to the UN was that turkish troops to pull out of cyprus al together to allow greek speaking cyps to feel safe and to also feel that they are working with the turkish speaking cypriots rather than turkey and the turkish army to be replaced by UN forces to ensure that order and current state of ceasefire remain as they are for the tme being until a solution is found. I have repeatedly suggested on this forum that the RoC create a register of those Greek speaking Cypriots who will Not return to their properties for whatever reason (many live overseas and will not up root to return, many have bigger better homes in the south and are not willing to give it all up, these people can then be compensated though not my preferred option but if it helps the cyprus cause well may be we need to let go of some things), so that the turksih speaking side have an idea of the numbers of greek speaking cyp's who will return, i suspect the number will be much less than anticipated. Then we have to think about settlers, they too are human being as my friend Zan has kindly pointed out to me once. To this end I believe that an independent committee is made up to consider each family and individual on individual basis, Turkey to take some financial responsibility for those who return but I would recomend that most settlers or at least less than the number of Turksih speaking cyp's born prior to 1974. That is a number that our turkish speaking Cyp's can decide. Anyway regardless of the number then as greek speaking cyp's return to their properties and leave their current refugee accommodation that can be given to settlers both as temporary or permanent accommodation, rent to buy scheme or cheaper affordable accommodation, i recommend the RoC provide financial assistance fro turkish and greek speaking cyp's from north/ south respectively to fix their home with view to return to the paphos villages they came from initially, the RoC need encourage turksih cypriots with appropriate qualifications to take up the posts in the governement that have not been filled since the 1960's starting with an offer to Mr Talat (whom I personally have little respect for after his threats of war) to take up the post of vice president. if he refuses then the invite need be extended to others who may be willing to take on the challenge.
