GREEK CYPRIOT SOLDIER CONFESSES TO SANDALLAR AND MURATAGA MASS MURDERS

[serhan]

So your 600 Greek Cypriot soldiers held back the mighty Turkish army in
Kyrenia and also managed to create mass graves at the same time or
these murderers were the so called civilian Greek Cypriots. Was it not
the Greek soldiers from Greece who tried to topple makarios before the
Turkish soldiers came to the island? Perhaps they were civilian too.

GREEK CYPRIOT SOLDIER CONFESSES TO SANDALLAR AND MURATAGA MASS MURDERS
Haravgi of July 21, 1998 reported that, the mass murder of villagers
from Sandallar and Murataga by Greek Cypriot soldiers in 1974 has for
the first time been admitted by a Greek Cypriot soldier who fought
during the 1974 Turkish intervention.
The Greek Cypriot soldier Nikos Geneia's recollection of events in
July 1974, under the title "The Coup File - The Coup Through The Eyes
of a Greek Cypriot Reserve Officer" states that, as the Greek Cypriot
forces retreated before the advancing Turkish troops, what he saw at
Sandallar and Murataga was so horrible that he said he would never
forget it as long as he lived.
Geneia continued by saying that, EOKA B terrorists were digging mass
graves with bulldozers and burying the innocent elderly Turkish Cypriot
women and children who were brutally murdered, and how one of the EOKA
B terrorists later bragged to the passing soldiers, "we have done our
duty."
Another confession from a Greek Cypriot that could not live with
the burden of the atrocities committed by the Greeks in Cyprus.
Unfortunately nothing will change, despite of all the confessions, as
in the case of the missing in Cyprus, the lies of the Greek side will
continue and certain British MPs and EU politicians will continue to
support these liars.

[ntl]

Remmeber there were no man in these mass graves. The men of these villages
were taken prisoners and some survived to come back to find no wives mothers
sisters and children they were all massacred and burried in mass graves. UN
soldiers witnessed the openning of the graves.

Post by serhan
So your 600 Greek Cypriot soldiers held back the mighty Turkish army in
Kyrenia and also managed to create mass graves at the same time or
these murderers were the so called civilian Greek Cypriots. Was it not
the Greek soldiers from Greece who tried to topple makarios before the
Turkish soldiers came to the island? Perhaps they were civilian too.
GREEK CYPRIOT SOLDIER CONFESSES TO SANDALLAR AND MURATAGA MASS MURDERS
Haravgi of July 21, 1998 reported that, the mass murder of villagers
from Sandallar and Murataga by Greek Cypriot soldiers in 1974 has for
the first time been admitted by a Greek Cypriot soldier who fought
during the 1974 Turkish intervention.
The Greek Cypriot soldier Nikos Geneia's recollection of events in
July 1974, under the title "The Coup File - The Coup Through The Eyes
of a Greek Cypriot Reserve Officer" states that, as the Greek Cypriot
forces retreated before the advancing Turkish troops, what he saw at
Sandallar and Murataga was so horrible that he said he would never
forget it as long as he lived.
Geneia continued by saying that, EOKA B terrorists were digging mass
graves with bulldozers and burying the innocent elderly Turkish Cypriot
women and children who were brutally murdered, and how one of the EOKA
B terrorists later bragged to the passing soldiers, "we have done our
duty."
Another confession from a Greek Cypriot that could not live with
the burden of the atrocities committed by the Greeks in Cyprus.
Unfortunately nothing will change, despite of all the confessions, as
in the case of the missing in Cyprus, the lies of the Greek side will
continue and certain British MPs and EU politicians will continue to
support these liars.

[Agamemnon]

Post by ntl
Remmeber there were no man in these mass graves. The men of these villages
were taken prisoners and some survived to come back to find no wives
mothers sisters and children they were all massacred and burried in mass
graves. UN soldiers witnessed the openning of the graves.

Provide the full UN report to back up this claim or admit you are LYING !

[Agamemnon]

Post by serhan
So your 600 Greek Cypriot soldiers held back the mighty Turkish army in
Kyrenia and also managed to create mass graves at the same time or
these murderers were the so called civilian Greek Cypriots. Was it not
the Greek soldiers from Greece who tried to topple makarios before the
Turkish soldiers came to the island? Perhaps they were civilian too.
GREEK CYPRIOT SOLDIER CONFESSES TO SANDALLAR AND MURATAGA MASS MURDERS
Haravgi of July 21, 1998 reported that, the mass murder of villagers
from Sandallar and Murataga by Greek Cypriot soldiers in 1974 has for
the first time been admitted by a Greek Cypriot soldier who fought
during the 1974 Turkish intervention.
The Greek Cypriot soldier Nikos Geneia's recollection of events in
July 1974, under the title "The Coup File - The Coup Through The Eyes
of a Greek Cypriot Reserve Officer" states that, as the Greek Cypriot
forces retreated before the advancing Turkish troops, what he saw at
Sandallar and Murataga was so horrible that he said he would never
forget it as long as he lived.

And as everybody knows that this is all a load of MADE UP LIES because the
battles at Sandallar and Murataga/Maratha did NOT take place in July 1974
but took place after the second Turkish invasion on August 14.

Post by serhan
Geneia continued by saying that, EOKA B terrorists were digging mass

MORE LIES. By August 14 there was no more EOKA-B.

Post by serhan
graves with bulldozers and burying the innocent elderly Turkish Cypriot

The only graves that were dug were for the people killed in the battles
fought in this villages which were being used to laugh offensives against
Famagousta.

The only atrocities committed during the Turkish invasion were perpetrated
by Turks against Greeks.

Breaches of the European Convention of Human Rights by Turkey. "Sunday
Times" 23 January 1977:
KILLING Relevant Article of Human Rights Convention:- Everyone's right to
life shall be protected by law.

Charge made by Greek Cypriots: The Turkey army embarked on a systematic
course of mass killings of civilians unconnected with any war activity.

Evidence given to the Commission: Witness Mrs K said that on 21 July 1974,
the second day of the Turkish invasion, she and a group of villages from
Elia were captured when, fleeing from bombardment, they tried to reach a
range of mountains. All 12 men arrested were civilians. They were separated
from the women and shot in front of the women, under orders of a Turkish
officer. Some of the men were holding children, three of whom were wounded.

Written statements referred to two more group killings: at Trimithi,
eye-witnesses told of the deaths of five men (two shepherds aged 60 and 70,
two masons of 20 and 60, and a 19 year-old plumber). At Palekythron 30 Greek
Cypriot soldiers being held prisoner were killed by their captors, according
to the second statement.

Witness S gave evidence of two other mass killings at Palekythron. In each
case, between 30 and 40 soldiers who had surrendered to the advancing Turks
were shot. In the second case, the witness said: "the soldiers were
transferred to the kilns of the village where they were shot dead and burnt
in order not to leave details of what had happened".

Seventeen members of two neighbouring families, including 10 women and five
children aged between two and nine were also killed in cold blood at
Palekythron, reported witness H, a doctor. Further killings described in the
doctor's notes, recording evidence related to him by patients (either
eye-witnesses or victims), included;

· Execution of eight civilians taken prisoner by Turkish soldiers in
the area of Prastio, one day after the cease-fire on 16 August 1974.

· Killing by Turkish soldiers of five unarmed Greek Cypriot soldiers
who had sought refuge in a house at Voni.

· Shooting of four women, one of whom survived by pretending she was
dead.

Further evidence, taken in refugee camps and in the form of written
statements, described killings of civilians in homes, streets or fields, as
well as the killing of people under arrest or in detention. Eight statements
described the killing of soldiers not in combat; five statements referred to
a mass grave found in Dherynia.

Commission's verdict: By 14 votes to one, the Commission considered there
were "very strong indications" of violation of Article 2 and killings
"committed on a substantial scale".

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."

TORTURE Relevant article:- see above under Rape.

Charge: Hundreds of people, including children, women and pensioners, were
victims of systematic torture and savage and humiliating treatment during
their detention by the Turkish army. They were beaten, according to the
allegations, sometimes to the extent of being incapacitated. Many were
subjected to whipping, breaking of their teeth, knocking their heads against
walls, beating with electrified clubs, stubbing of cigarettes on their skin,
jumping and stepping on their chests and hands, pouring dirty liquids on
them, piercing them with bayonets, etc.

Many, it was said, were ill-treated to such an extent that they became
mental and physical wrecks. The brutalities complained of reached their
climax after the cease-fire agreements; in fact, most of the acts described
were committed at a time when Turkish armed forces were not engaged in any
war activities.

Evidence to Commission: Main witness was a school teacher, one of 2,000
Greek Cypriot men deported to Turkey. He stated that he and his fellow
detainees were repeatedly beaten after their arrest, on their way to Adana
(in Turkey), in jail at Adana and in prison camp at Amasya.

On ship to Turkey:- "That was another moment of terrible beating again. We
were tied all the time. I lost the sense of touch. I could not feel anything
for about two or three months. Every time we asked for water or spoke we
were beaten."

Arriving at Adana:- "... then, one by one, they led us to prisons, through a
long corridor .. Going through that corridor was another terrible
experience. There were about 100 soldiers from both sides with sticks, clubs
and with their fists beating every one of us while going to the other end of
the corridor. I was beaten at least 50 times until I reached the other end.

"In Adana anyone who said he wanted to see a doctor was beaten.

"Beating was on the agenda every day. There were one or two very good, very
nice people, but they were afraid to show their kindness, as they told us."

Witness P spoke of:-

· A fellow prisoner who was kicked in the mouth. He lost several
teeth "and his lower jaw came off in pieces".

· A Turkish officer, a karate student, who exercised every day by
hitting prisoners.

· Fellow prisoners who were hung by the feet over the hole of a
lavatory for hours.

· A Turkish second lieutenant who used to prick all prisoners with a
pin when they were taken into a yard.

Evidence from Dr H said that prisoners were in an emaciated condition on
their return to Cyprus. On nine occasions he had found signs of wounds.

The doctor gave a general description of conditions in Adana and in
detention camps in Cyprus (at Pavlides Garage and the Saray Prison in the
Turkish quarter of Nicosia) as reported to him by former detainees. Food, he
said, consisted of one-eight of a loaf of bread a day, with occasional
olives; there were about two buckets of water and two mugs which were never
cleaned, from which about 1,000 people had to drink; toilets were filthy,
with faeces rising over the basins; floors were covered with faeces and
urine; in jail in Adana prisoners were kept 76 to a cell with three towels
between them and one block of soap per eight persons per month to wash
themselves and their clothes.

One man, it was alleged, had to amputate his own toes with a razor blade as
a consequence of ill-treatment. Caught in Achna with another man, they had
been beaten up with hard objects. When he asked for a glass of water he was
given a glass full of urine. His toes were then stepped on until they became
blue, swollen and eventually gangrenous (the other man was said to have been
taken to hospital in Nicosia, where he agreed to have his legs amputated. He
did not survive the operation).

According to witness S:- "hundreds of Greek Cypriots were beaten and dozens
were executed. They have cut off their ears in some cases, like the case of
Palekythron and Trahoni ..." (verbatim record).

Verdict by Commission: By 12 votes to one, the Commission concluded that
prisoners were in a number of cases physically ill-treated by Turkish
soldiers.

"These acts of ill-treatment caused considerable injuries and in at least
one case, death of a victim. By their severity they constitute "in-human
treatment" in the sense of Article 3, for which Turkey is responsible under
the Convention."

LOOTING Relevant article:- Every natural or legal person is entitled to the
peaceful enjoyment of his possessions.

Charge: In all Turkish-occupied areas the Turkish army systematically looted
houses and businesses of Greek Cypriots.

Evidence to Commission: Looting in Kyrenia was described by witness C:- "...
The first days of looting of the shops was done by the army of heavy things
like refrigerators, laundry machines, television sets" (verbatim record).

For weeks after the invasion, he said, he had watched Turkish naval ships
taking on board the looted goods.

Witness K, a barrister, described the pillage of Famagusta:- "At two o'clock
an organised, systematic, terrifying, shocking, unbelievable looting started
... We heard the breaking of doors, some of them iron doors, smashing of
glass, and we were waiting for them any minute to enter the house. This
lasted for about four hours."

Written statements by eye-witnesses of looting were corroborated by several
reports by the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

Verdict of Commission: The Commission accepted that looting and robbery on
an extensive scale, by Turkish troops and Turkish Cypriots, had taken place.
By 12 votes to one, it established that there had been deprivation of
possessions of Greek Cypriots on a large scale.

OTHER CHARGES

On four counts:- the Commission concluded that Turkey had also violated an
Article of the Convention asserting the right to respect for private and
family life, home and correspondence. The Commission also decided that
Turkey was continuing to violate the Article by refusing to allow the return
of more than 170,000 Greek Cypriot refugees to their homes in the north.

On three counts:- the Commission said Turkey had breached an Article laying
down the right to liberty and security of persons by confining more than
2,000 Greek Cypriots in schools and churches.

Finally, the Commission said Turkey had violated two more articles that
specify that the rights and freedoms in the Convention shall be secured
without discrimination on any grounds, and that anyone whose rights are
violated "shall have an effective remedy before a national authority."

[ntl]

Haravgi is a Greek Cypriot newspaper not a Turkish Cypriot one so it is your
own paper writing these confessions. By events of July is just saying the
start of the events. yes the murders took place in august 74, it was the
Greek, Greek Cypriot soldiers and the EOKA terrorists who did the murders.
For me EOKA is EOKA there are no A or B it is all the same and it still
exists today.

In the fifties it murdered hundreds of British soldiers, British civilians
including pregnant women and Turkish and Greek Cypriots. Later in the
sixties murdered many Turkish and Greek Cypriots and in 1974 they helped the
Greek army during the coup.

Post by Agamemnon

Post by serhan
So your 600 Greek Cypriot soldiers held back the mighty Turkish army in
Kyrenia and also managed to create mass graves at the same time or
these murderers were the so called civilian Greek Cypriots. Was it not
the Greek soldiers from Greece who tried to topple makarios before the
Turkish soldiers came to the island? Perhaps they were civilian too.
GREEK CYPRIOT SOLDIER CONFESSES TO SANDALLAR AND MURATAGA MASS MURDERS
Haravgi of July 21, 1998 reported that, the mass murder of villagers
from Sandallar and Murataga by Greek Cypriot soldiers in 1974 has for
the first time been admitted by a Greek Cypriot soldier who fought
during the 1974 Turkish intervention.
The Greek Cypriot soldier Nikos Geneia's recollection of events in
July 1974, under the title "The Coup File - The Coup Through The Eyes
of a Greek Cypriot Reserve Officer" states that, as the Greek Cypriot
forces retreated before the advancing Turkish troops, what he saw at
Sandallar and Murataga was so horrible that he said he would never
forget it as long as he lived.

And as everybody knows that this is all a load of MADE UP LIES because the
battles at Sandallar and Murataga/Maratha did NOT take place in July 1974
but took place after the second Turkish invasion on August 14.

Post by serhan
Geneia continued by saying that, EOKA B terrorists were digging mass

MORE LIES. By August 14 there was no more EOKA-B.

Post by serhan
graves with bulldozers and burying the innocent elderly Turkish Cypriot

The only graves that were dug were for the people killed in the battles
fought in this villages which were being used to laugh offensives against
Famagousta.
The only atrocities committed during the Turkish invasion were perpetrated
by Turks against Greeks.
Breaches of the European Convention of Human Rights by Turkey. "Sunday
KILLING Relevant Article of Human Rights Convention:- Everyone's right to
life shall be protected by law.
Charge made by Greek Cypriots: The Turkey army embarked on a systematic
course of mass killings of civilians unconnected with any war activity.
Evidence given to the Commission: Witness Mrs K said that on 21 July 1974,
the second day of the Turkish invasion, she and a group of villages from
Elia were captured when, fleeing from bombardment, they tried to reach a
range of mountains. All 12 men arrested were civilians. They were
separated from the women and shot in front of the women, under orders of a
Turkish officer. Some of the men were holding children, three of whom were
wounded.
Written statements referred to two more group killings: at Trimithi,
eye-witnesses told of the deaths of five men (two shepherds aged 60 and
70, two masons of 20 and 60, and a 19 year-old plumber). At Palekythron 30
Greek Cypriot soldiers being held prisoner were killed by their captors,
according to the second statement.
Witness S gave evidence of two other mass killings at Palekythron. In each
case, between 30 and 40 soldiers who had surrendered to the advancing
Turks were shot. In the second case, the witness said: "the soldiers were
transferred to the kilns of the village where they were shot dead and
burnt in order not to leave details of what had happened".
Seventeen members of two neighbouring families, including 10 women and
five children aged between two and nine were also killed in cold blood at
Palekythron, reported witness H, a doctor. Further killings described in
the doctor's notes, recording evidence related to him by patients (either
eye-witnesses or victims), included;
· Execution of eight civilians taken prisoner by Turkish soldiers
in the area of Prastio, one day after the cease-fire on 16 August 1974.
· Killing by Turkish soldiers of five unarmed Greek Cypriot
soldiers who had sought refuge in a house at Voni.
· Shooting of four women, one of whom survived by pretending she
was dead.
Further evidence, taken in refugee camps and in the form of written
statements, described killings of civilians in homes, streets or fields,
as well as the killing of people under arrest or in detention. Eight
statements described the killing of soldiers not in combat; five
statements referred to a mass grave found in Dherynia.
Commission's verdict: By 14 votes to one, the Commission considered there
were "very strong indications" of violation of Article 2 and killings
"committed on a substantial scale".
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."
TORTURE Relevant article:- see above under Rape.
Charge: Hundreds of people, including children, women and pensioners, were
victims of systematic torture and savage and humiliating treatment during
their detention by the Turkish army. They were beaten, according to the
allegations, sometimes to the extent of being incapacitated. Many were
subjected to whipping, breaking of their teeth, knocking their heads
against walls, beating with electrified clubs, stubbing of cigarettes on
their skin, jumping and stepping on their chests and hands, pouring dirty
liquids on them, piercing them with bayonets, etc.
Many, it was said, were ill-treated to such an extent that they became
mental and physical wrecks. The brutalities complained of reached their
climax after the cease-fire agreements; in fact, most of the acts
described were committed at a time when Turkish armed forces were not
engaged in any war activities.
Evidence to Commission: Main witness was a school teacher, one of 2,000
Greek Cypriot men deported to Turkey. He stated that he and his fellow
detainees were repeatedly beaten after their arrest, on their way to Adana
(in Turkey), in jail at Adana and in prison camp at Amasya.
On ship to Turkey:- "That was another moment of terrible beating again. We
were tied all the time. I lost the sense of touch. I could not feel
anything for about two or three months. Every time we asked for water or
spoke we were beaten."
Arriving at Adana:- "... then, one by one, they led us to prisons, through
a long corridor .. Going through that corridor was another terrible
experience. There were about 100 soldiers from both sides with sticks,
clubs and with their fists beating every one of us while going to the
other end of the corridor. I was beaten at least 50 times until I reached
the other end.
"In Adana anyone who said he wanted to see a doctor was beaten.
"Beating was on the agenda every day. There were one or two very good,
very nice people, but they were afraid to show their kindness, as they
told us."
Witness P spoke of:-
· A fellow prisoner who was kicked in the mouth. He lost several
teeth "and his lower jaw came off in pieces".
· A Turkish officer, a karate student, who exercised every day by
hitting prisoners.
· Fellow prisoners who were hung by the feet over the hole of a
lavatory for hours.
· A Turkish second lieutenant who used to prick all prisoners with
a pin when they were taken into a yard.
Evidence from Dr H said that prisoners were in an emaciated condition on
their return to Cyprus. On nine occasions he had found signs of wounds.
The doctor gave a general description of conditions in Adana and in
detention camps in Cyprus (at Pavlides Garage and the Saray Prison in the
Turkish quarter of Nicosia) as reported to him by former detainees. Food,
he said, consisted of one-eight of a loaf of bread a day, with occasional
olives; there were about two buckets of water and two mugs which were
never cleaned, from which about 1,000 people had to drink; toilets were
filthy, with faeces rising over the basins; floors were covered with
faeces and urine; in jail in Adana prisoners were kept 76 to a cell with
three towels between them and one block of soap per eight persons per
month to wash themselves and their clothes.
One man, it was alleged, had to amputate his own toes with a razor blade
as a consequence of ill-treatment. Caught in Achna with another man, they
had been beaten up with hard objects. When he asked for a glass of water
he was given a glass full of urine. His toes were then stepped on until
they became blue, swollen and eventually gangrenous (the other man was
said to have been taken to hospital in Nicosia, where he agreed to have
his legs amputated. He did not survive the operation).
According to witness S:- "hundreds of Greek Cypriots were beaten and
dozens were executed. They have cut off their ears in some cases, like the
case of Palekythron and Trahoni ..." (verbatim record).
Verdict by Commission: By 12 votes to one, the Commission concluded that
prisoners were in a number of cases physically ill-treated by Turkish
soldiers.
"These acts of ill-treatment caused considerable injuries and in at least
one case, death of a victim. By their severity they constitute "in-human
treatment" in the sense of Article 3, for which Turkey is responsible
under the Convention."
LOOTING Relevant article:- Every natural or legal person is entitled to
the peaceful enjoyment of his possessions.
Charge: In all Turkish-occupied areas the Turkish army systematically
looted houses and businesses of Greek Cypriots.
Evidence to Commission: Looting in Kyrenia was described by witness C:-
"... The first days of looting of the shops was done by the army of heavy
things like refrigerators, laundry machines, television sets" (verbatim
record).
For weeks after the invasion, he said, he had watched Turkish naval ships
taking on board the looted goods.
Witness K, a barrister, described the pillage of Famagusta:- "At two
o'clock an organised, systematic, terrifying, shocking, unbelievable
looting started ... We heard the breaking of doors, some of them iron
doors, smashing of glass, and we were waiting for them any minute to enter
the house. This lasted for about four hours."
Written statements by eye-witnesses of looting were corroborated by
several reports by the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Verdict of Commission: The Commission accepted that looting and robbery on
an extensive scale, by Turkish troops and Turkish Cypriots, had taken
place. By 12 votes to one, it established that there had been deprivation
of possessions of Greek Cypriots on a large scale.
OTHER CHARGES
On four counts:- the Commission concluded that Turkey had also violated an
Article of the Convention asserting the right to respect for private and
family life, home and correspondence. The Commission also decided that
Turkey was continuing to violate the Article by refusing to allow the
return of more than 170,000 Greek Cypriot refugees to their homes in the
north.
On three counts:- the Commission said Turkey had breached an Article
laying down the right to liberty and security of persons by confining more
than 2,000 Greek Cypriots in schools and churches.
Finally, the Commission said Turkey had violated two more articles that
specify that the rights and freedoms in the Convention shall be secured
without discrimination on any grounds, and that anyone whose rights are
violated "shall have an effective remedy before a national authority."

[Agamemnon]

Post by ntl
Haravgi is a Greek Cypriot newspaper not a Turkish Cypriot one so it is
your own paper writing these confessions. By events of July is just saying
the

WRONG. It is printing a FAKE interview with a FAKE person that does not even
exist, most probably a Turk who mislead them. I have already proven that
the account is a FAKE because the dates are WRONG.

Post by ntl
start of the events. yes the murders took place in august 74, it was the
Greek, Greek Cypriot soldiers and the EOKA terrorists who did the murders.
For me EOKA is EOKA there are no A or B it is all the same and it still
exists today.
In the fifties it murdered hundreds of British soldiers, British civilians
including pregnant women and Turkish and Greek Cypriots. Later in the
sixties murdered many Turkish and Greek Cypriots and in 1974 they helped
the Greek army during the coup.

BULLSHIT

The only party murdering civilians and Turkish Cypriots was Dentash's TMT
terrorist organisation which was funded, supplied and trained by Turkey.

In an interview during an ITN television documentary entitled ''Cyprus:
Britain's grim legacy'', shown in Britain in 1985 by the ITV television
channel, Rauf Denktash talked about an explosion at the Information Bureau
of the Turkish Consulate in Nicosia and confessed that a friend of his had
planted the bomb which signalled the start of clashes between Turkish
Cypriots and Greek Cypriots after the former blamed the Greek Cypriot side;
"Later, one friend of mine, whose name must still be kept a secret, was to
confess to me that he had put this little bomb in their doorway, in order to
create an atmosphere of tension so that people would know that Turkish
Cypriots mattered," Denktash was quoted as saying.

Post by ntl

Post by Agamemnon

Post by serhan
So your 600 Greek Cypriot soldiers held back the mighty Turkish army in
Kyrenia and also managed to create mass graves at the same time or
these murderers were the so called civilian Greek Cypriots. Was it not
the Greek soldiers from Greece who tried to topple makarios before the
Turkish soldiers came to the island? Perhaps they were civilian too.
GREEK CYPRIOT SOLDIER CONFESSES TO SANDALLAR AND MURATAGA MASS MURDERS
Haravgi of July 21, 1998 reported that, the mass murder of villagers
from Sandallar and Murataga by Greek Cypriot soldiers in 1974 has for
the first time been admitted by a Greek Cypriot soldier who fought
during the 1974 Turkish intervention.
The Greek Cypriot soldier Nikos Geneia's recollection of events in
July 1974, under the title "The Coup File - The Coup Through The Eyes
of a Greek Cypriot Reserve Officer" states that, as the Greek Cypriot
forces retreated before the advancing Turkish troops, what he saw at
Sandallar and Murataga was so horrible that he said he would never
forget it as long as he lived.

And as everybody knows that this is all a load of MADE UP LIES because
the battles at Sandallar and Murataga/Maratha did NOT take place in July
1974 but took place after the second Turkish invasion on August 14.

Post by serhan
Geneia continued by saying that, EOKA B terrorists were digging mass

MORE LIES. By August 14 there was no more EOKA-B.

Post by serhan
graves with bulldozers and burying the innocent elderly Turkish Cypriot

The only graves that were dug were for the people killed in the battles
fought in this villages which were being used to laugh offensives against
Famagousta.
The only atrocities committed during the Turkish invasion were
perpetrated by Turks against Greeks.
Breaches of the European Convention of Human Rights by Turkey. "Sunday
KILLING Relevant Article of Human Rights Convention:- Everyone's right to
life shall be protected by law.
Charge made by Greek Cypriots: The Turkey army embarked on a systematic
course of mass killings of civilians unconnected with any war activity.
Evidence given to the Commission: Witness Mrs K said that on 21 July
1974, the second day of the Turkish invasion, she and a group of villages
from Elia were captured when, fleeing from bombardment, they tried to
reach a range of mountains. All 12 men arrested were civilians. They were
separated from the women and shot in front of the women, under orders of
a Turkish officer. Some of the men were holding children, three of whom
were wounded.
Written statements referred to two more group killings: at Trimithi,
eye-witnesses told of the deaths of five men (two shepherds aged 60 and
70, two masons of 20 and 60, and a 19 year-old plumber). At Palekythron
30 Greek Cypriot soldiers being held prisoner were killed by their
captors, according to the second statement.
Witness S gave evidence of two other mass killings at Palekythron. In
each case, between 30 and 40 soldiers who had surrendered to the
advancing Turks were shot. In the second case, the witness said: "the
soldiers were transferred to the kilns of the village where they were
shot dead and burnt in order not to leave details of what had happened".
Seventeen members of two neighbouring families, including 10 women and
five children aged between two and nine were also killed in cold blood at
Palekythron, reported witness H, a doctor. Further killings described in
the doctor's notes, recording evidence related to him by patients (either
eye-witnesses or victims), included;
· Execution of eight civilians taken prisoner by Turkish soldiers
in the area of Prastio, one day after the cease-fire on 16 August 1974.
· Killing by Turkish soldiers of five unarmed Greek Cypriot
soldiers who had sought refuge in a house at Voni.
· Shooting of four women, one of whom survived by pretending she
was dead.
Further evidence, taken in refugee camps and in the form of written
statements, described killings of civilians in homes, streets or fields,
as well as the killing of people under arrest or in detention. Eight
statements described the killing of soldiers not in combat; five
statements referred to a mass grave found in Dherynia.
Commission's verdict: By 14 votes to one, the Commission considered there
were "very strong indications" of violation of Article 2 and killings
"committed on a substantial scale".
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."
TORTURE Relevant article:- see above under Rape.
Charge: Hundreds of people, including children, women and pensioners,
were victims of systematic torture and savage and humiliating treatment
during their detention by the Turkish army. They were beaten, according
to the allegations, sometimes to the extent of being incapacitated. Many
were subjected to whipping, breaking of their teeth, knocking their heads
against walls, beating with electrified clubs, stubbing of cigarettes on
their skin, jumping and stepping on their chests and hands, pouring dirty
liquids on them, piercing them with bayonets, etc.
Many, it was said, were ill-treated to such an extent that they became
mental and physical wrecks. The brutalities complained of reached their
climax after the cease-fire agreements; in fact, most of the acts
described were committed at a time when Turkish armed forces were not
engaged in any war activities.
Evidence to Commission: Main witness was a school teacher, one of 2,000
Greek Cypriot men deported to Turkey. He stated that he and his fellow
detainees were repeatedly beaten after their arrest, on their way to
Adana (in Turkey), in jail at Adana and in prison camp at Amasya.
On ship to Turkey:- "That was another moment of terrible beating again.
We were tied all the time. I lost the sense of touch. I could not feel
anything for about two or three months. Every time we asked for water or
spoke we were beaten."
Arriving at Adana:- "... then, one by one, they led us to prisons,
through a long corridor .. Going through that corridor was another
terrible experience. There were about 100 soldiers from both sides with
sticks, clubs and with their fists beating every one of us while going to
the other end of the corridor. I was beaten at least 50 times until I
reached the other end.
"In Adana anyone who said he wanted to see a doctor was beaten.
"Beating was on the agenda every day. There were one or two very good,
very nice people, but they were afraid to show their kindness, as they
told us."
Witness P spoke of:-
· A fellow prisoner who was kicked in the mouth. He lost several
teeth "and his lower jaw came off in pieces".
· A Turkish officer, a karate student, who exercised every day by
hitting prisoners.
· Fellow prisoners who were hung by the feet over the hole of a
lavatory for hours.
· A Turkish second lieutenant who used to prick all prisoners
with a pin when they were taken into a yard.
Evidence from Dr H said that prisoners were in an emaciated condition on
their return to Cyprus. On nine occasions he had found signs of wounds.
The doctor gave a general description of conditions in Adana and in
detention camps in Cyprus (at Pavlides Garage and the Saray Prison in the
Turkish quarter of Nicosia) as reported to him by former detainees. Food,
he said, consisted of one-eight of a loaf of bread a day, with occasional
olives; there were about two buckets of water and two mugs which were
never cleaned, from which about 1,000 people had to drink; toilets were
filthy, with faeces rising over the basins; floors were covered with
faeces and urine; in jail in Adana prisoners were kept 76 to a cell with
three towels between them and one block of soap per eight persons per
month to wash themselves and their clothes.
One man, it was alleged, had to amputate his own toes with a razor blade
as a consequence of ill-treatment. Caught in Achna with another man, they
had been beaten up with hard objects. When he asked for a glass of water
he was given a glass full of urine. His toes were then stepped on until
they became blue, swollen and eventually gangrenous (the other man was
said to have been taken to hospital in Nicosia, where he agreed to have
his legs amputated. He did not survive the operation).
According to witness S:- "hundreds of Greek Cypriots were beaten and
dozens were executed. They have cut off their ears in some cases, like
the case of Palekythron and Trahoni ..." (verbatim record).
Verdict by Commission: By 12 votes to one, the Commission concluded that
prisoners were in a number of cases physically ill-treated by Turkish
soldiers.
"These acts of ill-treatment caused considerable injuries and in at least
one case, death of a victim. By their severity they constitute "in-human
treatment" in the sense of Article 3, for which Turkey is responsible
under the Convention."
LOOTING Relevant article:- Every natural or legal person is entitled to
the peaceful enjoyment of his possessions.
Charge: In all Turkish-occupied areas the Turkish army systematically
looted houses and businesses of Greek Cypriots.
Evidence to Commission: Looting in Kyrenia was described by witness C:-
"... The first days of looting of the shops was done by the army of heavy
things like refrigerators, laundry machines, television sets" (verbatim
record).
For weeks after the invasion, he said, he had watched Turkish naval ships
taking on board the looted goods.
Witness K, a barrister, described the pillage of Famagusta:- "At two
o'clock an organised, systematic, terrifying, shocking, unbelievable
looting started ... We heard the breaking of doors, some of them iron
doors, smashing of glass, and we were waiting for them any minute to
enter the house. This lasted for about four hours."
Written statements by eye-witnesses of looting were corroborated by
several reports by the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Verdict of Commission: The Commission accepted that looting and robbery
on an extensive scale, by Turkish troops and Turkish Cypriots, had taken
place. By 12 votes to one, it established that there had been deprivation
of possessions of Greek Cypriots on a large scale.
OTHER CHARGES
On four counts:- the Commission concluded that Turkey had also violated
an Article of the Convention asserting the right to respect for private
and family life, home and correspondence. The Commission also decided
that Turkey was continuing to violate the Article by refusing to allow
the return of more than 170,000 Greek Cypriot refugees to their homes in
the north.
On three counts:- the Commission said Turkey had breached an Article
laying down the right to liberty and security of persons by confining
more than 2,000 Greek Cypriots in schools and churches.
Finally, the Commission said Turkey had violated two more articles that
specify that the rights and freedoms in the Convention shall be secured
without discrimination on any grounds, and that anyone whose rights are
violated "shall have an effective remedy before a national authority."

[m***@yahoo.com]

Greeks' bloody past is as brutal as their bloody present:


The sub-human anti-Turkish hatred fabricators, murderers of innocent
and defenceless Turks and thugs of Armenian/Greek/PKK/KADEK
anti-Turkish Hatred Inc., with a veracious appetite for innocent
Turkish blood, never stop in their relentless dreams of massacring all
Turks everywhere in the World. The sub-human Greek/Armenian/PKK/KADEK
terrorists think repeating anti-Turkish hate propaganda over and over
legitimize their rape, torture and murder of innocent and defenceless
Turkish human beings.




++++++++++++++++++


http://aegeantimes.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1065&mode=thread&order=0


Greek Cypriot Investigates Massacre of Turks in 1974
BY: Mete


The Greek Cypriot press imposed a broadcasting embargo on a Greek
Cypriot investigating author, who said that the realities in Cyprus
were hidden from the Greek Cypriot public and that the murderers still
alive should be tried.

The Greek Cypriots massacred 126 people, the most of which were
children and women, collectively at three Turkish Cypriot villages in
1974. Some murderers are alive. Not only the Greek Cypriot
Administration, but also all Greek Cypriot public shall apologize from
Turkish Cypriots. Compensation shall be paid to the relatives of the
victims and the murderers shall be tried.

Having made the massacre by the Greek Cypriots at the three Turkish
Cypriot villages in 1974 as a TV documentary, Greek Cypriot author
Antonis Angastiniyotis was excommunicated in his country.

Antonis Angastiniyotis, made a documentary of the collective massacre
of 126 Turkish Cypriots at Murataga, Sandallar and Atlilar villages
during the Turkish Peace Operation in 1974. After producing his
documentary entitled, "Barbarism to the Turkish Cypriots and the Other
Side of the Medallion", the journalist answered the questions of
Hurriyet and explained the reasons why he prepared a "Greek massacre
documentary" as a Greek Cypriot.

He said, "I was seeing the photos of these massacres at the Turkish
side every time I passed to the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
(TRNC). However, these were never being explained at our side. When I
researched, I also saw the other side of the medallion. Therefore, I
decided to prepare a documentary. The blood and pain do not have a
nationality and flag. I search for the realities. One should come out
and say these.

The Greek Cypriot TV's did not broadcast the documentary." He added,
"If the Greek Cypriot Administration presses me too much, I will come
and live in TRNC."



Memory (Score: 1)
by Mete (***@mynet.com) on Nov 06, 2004 - 01:07 PM
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I have just watched a documentary on CNN Turk which is a turkish news
channel. And a retired officer who took part in the Cyprus war as a
lieutenant ,was telling his memories during the war. One part was that,
They capture 163 Greek civilians and he ordered to keep that at a safe
place. And he says they were hungry and thirsty.Turkish soldier had
food for 3 days with them. The lieutenant calls his sub officer and
says him to tell the soliders if they want to share their food with the
greeks, he will be happy but it wasnt an order..Then Turkish soldiers
started to leave food for them.

The lieutenant goes to check the greeks and see that noone touhced
them.He calls a gil who was speaking english and she says the priest
told them that Turks wanted to posion them. Then he got mad and he eats
from the food . Then he says the greeks rushed to the food..and it was
a sad part for my life.

Post by serhan
So your 600 Greek Cypriot soldiers held back the mighty Turkish army in
Kyrenia and also managed to create mass graves at the same time or
these murderers were the so called civilian Greek Cypriots. Was it not
the Greek soldiers from Greece who tried to topple makarios before the
Turkish soldiers came to the island? Perhaps they were civilian too.
GREEK CYPRIOT SOLDIER CONFESSES TO SANDALLAR AND MURATAGA MASS MURDERS
Haravgi of July 21, 1998 reported that, the mass murder of villagers
from Sandallar and Murataga by Greek Cypriot soldiers in 1974 has for
the first time been admitted by a Greek Cypriot soldier who fought
during the 1974 Turkish intervention.
The Greek Cypriot soldier Nikos Geneia's recollection of events in
July 1974, under the title "The Coup File - The Coup Through The Eyes
of a Greek Cypriot Reserve Officer" states that, as the Greek Cypriot
forces retreated before the advancing Turkish troops, what he saw at
Sandallar and Murataga was so horrible that he said he would never
forget it as long as he lived.
Geneia continued by saying that, EOKA B terrorists were digging mass
graves with bulldozers and burying the innocent elderly Turkish Cypriot
women and children who were brutally murdered, and how one of the EOKA
B terrorists later bragged to the passing soldiers, "we have done our
duty."
Another confession from a Greek Cypriot that could not live with
the burden of the atrocities committed by the Greeks in Cyprus.
Unfortunately nothing will change, despite of all the confessions, as
in the case of the missing in Cyprus, the lies of the Greek side will
continue and certain British MPs and EU politicians will continue to
support these liars.

[Panta Rhei]

Another episode in Mark Rivers', the hapless Turkish spammer's, life:


Mark Rivers Sets Microwave and House on Fire!

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Mark Rivers, a Turkish immigrant and notorious
spammer of usenet, was charged with arson on Friday after he allegedly
heated a can containing gasoline in a microwave oven following a domestic
dispute. He is accused of setting the fire at about 2 a.m. Friday after
arguing with his mother.

Rivers and an unidentified friend got out of the house without injury. The
friend ran back inside and attempted to put out the fire but was
overpowered by flames and escaped a second time without injury, James
said.

The two-story wood frame house was engulfed in flames when firefighters
arrived. A damage estimate was not immediately available.

[m***@yahoo.com]

"Turkish troops landed in northern Cyprus to protect the Turkish
community of the island. The Turkish government . . . is not willing to
agree to [the demilitarization of Cyprus], lest the Turkish community
on Cyprus be threatened".


-- The Baltimore Sun, "Monica Lewinsky and the Russian missiles in
Cyprus", Robert Freedman, 8/31/98



+++++++++++++++++++++++++



Greeks' bloody past is as brutal as their bloody present:



The anti-Turkish hatred fabricators, murderers of innocent and
defenceless Turks and thugs of Armenian/Greek/PKK/KADEK anti-Turkish
Hatred Inc., with a constant huge appetite for innocent Turkish blood,
never stop in their relentless dreams of massacring all Turks
everywhere in the World. The sub-human Greek/Armenian/PKK/KADEK
terrorists think repeating anti-Turkish hate propaganda over and over
legitimize their rape, torture and murder of innocent and defenceless
Turkish human beings.

++++++++++++++++++




OBSERVATIONS BY FOREIGNERS

The Mathiati Massacre

The brutality in Mathiati village of Nicosia where 208 Turks lived was
expressed as below by Gibbons:

"(...) three Turks were seriously injured at the first minutes. When
Turks burst out of their white, small houses into the streets, the
screaming and cursing crowd began to push and kick them along the way.
The terrified Turks who fell down on the floor as a result of riffle
butt strikes were dragged across the streets while the crowd stormed
into houses, pulled burning logs out of the furnaces and set curtains
and beds on fire. The old wooden roof beams were surrounded by smoke
and then flames. Barefoot women mostly in nightgowns were also pushed
here and there on the burning streets, either holding tight their
terrified little babies or with their toddlers catching the ends of
their nightgowns or trousers and following them together with others
dragging their injured away.


Greek youngsters host at the houses hysterically and yelled madly with
hoarse voices. Before the flames completely covered the houses, they
materialized into the houses, broken things and grabbing valuable
goods. The wild sounds coming from the back of the houses attracted he
attention of the assailants to the animals of Turks. They stomped into
the barns and raked cows, sheep and goats with machine guns. They threw
the chickens into the
air and shot them while they desperately cackled and struggled. Their
bodies broke into pieces and feathers covered everywhere.

The crowd screamed and yelled in a bloodthirsty manner. Turks were
dragged through the frozen streets out of the village. They were left
in pain around Kochatis, another Turkish village. The Kochatis
villagers hurried out of their houses to help their neighbors while the
crowd headed back to Mathiati to continue the plunder and all the
madness". (H. Scott
Gibbons, Peace Without Honor, Ankara, 1969, p. 31).

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Ayvasýl Massacre

Gibbons observations on the Ayvasýl (Ayios Vasilios) village
massacre
quotes as follows:

"Weapon sounds were heard. They broke locked doors with rifle
butts
and dragged people onto the streets. A 70 year-old Turk awoke to the
sound
of its broken front door. He teetered out of his bedroom before he was
asked
if he had any children by many youngsters with arms. Dumbfounded, he
pronounced "Yes". "Send them out" they ordered. Tow sons of his, 19 and
17,
and her only daughter, 10 got dressed hurriedly and followed the armed
men
out.

They were lined up near the farm fence and shot dead with machine
guns
by those armed men. In another house, they found a 13 year-old boy,
tied his
hands at his back, knelt him down. They plundered the house, kicked and
raped the boy and shot him at the head.

That night, 12 Turks were slaughtered in Ayios Vasilios. Others
were
gathered and pushed out of the village to take refuge in Turks in
Skylloura.

Barefooted, with their pajamas and nightgowns on, they teetered to
proceed
in the cold. The Greek cypriots fired at them in the dark.

The armed men headed for the Turkish houses. They plundered and
destroyed the houses and when they got exhausted, they set the houses
on
fire. Nine more Turks that lived in the surrounding farmhouses were
killed
in the same region". (H. Scott Gibbons, Peace Without Honor, p. 73).

The Kumsal Massacre

Gibbons wrote as follows about the Kumsal massacre:

"Armed men broke the doors and stormed into Turkish houses,
kicking,
beating, punching and cursing at them. The retreat from Kumsal began.
Once
more, dazed and appalled families that resembled those facing debacle
in
Europe by Nazi attacks were on cold streets rifles burst and machine
guns
raffled.

They were slipping and falling down. They began to run away,
seeking
support from one another. The screams of a woman echoed on the street,
who

squealed "Is not there anyone to help, Gor God's sake?"

159 inhabitants of Kumsal Turks could not make it to run away
that
night. Four people in the bathroom were killed apart from the landlady
and
four other people. 150 people were taken hostage. No one ever saw some
of
the hostages again. (H. Scott Gibbons, Peace Without Honor, p. 74).

Observations by an Italian Journalist

In January 1964, an Italian journalist in Cyprus made the
following
observations:

"Right now, we are witnessing the migration of Turks from their
villages. The Greek cypriot Terror is ruthless; thousands of people are
leaving their houses, lands and flocks. The Hellenistic claims and
Plateau
can not conceal these savage and barbarous behaviors. Curfew starts in
Turkish villages everyday at 16:00 p.m. As soon as darkness falls,
threats,
weapon sounds and attempts of arson begin. Any resistance seems
impossible
after the Christmas slaughter which spared neither women nor kids
(Giorgio

Bocca, Ýl Giorno, 14 January 1964).

Observations by an American Journalist

Time Journalist Robert Ball wrote the following about the
incidents in
Ayios Sozomenos village of Nicosia:

"The most severe clash took place at the western side of the
village
on which Greek cypriots had attacked by taking advantage of the dense
round
olive trees. The window of an adobe house which sheltered 9 Turks was
blown
up with a bazooka shell and its second floor was riddled because of
bullet
holes.

A Turkish shepherd who desperately raced to the river bed to
escape
was shot a few steps away from the door. Another tried to attack the
Greeks
pointlessly with a pitchfork in his hand and was killed immediately".
(Robert Ball, Time, 14 February 1964).

Observations by an British Journalist

"After Cyprus was occupied, hundreds of Cypriot Turks were taken
hostage by National Guardsmen, Turkish women were raped, kids were
killed on

the streets and Turkish quarters in Limasol were totally burned down".
(David Leigh, The Times, London, 23 July 1974).

Observations by a German Tourist

"Human mind can not comprehend the barbarism of Greeks... Greek
National Guardsmen represented extraordinary examples of brutality.
They
broke into Turkish houses; they ruthlessly shot women and children; cut
the
throats of many Turks and gathered and raped Turkish women...
(Germany's
Voice, 30 July 1974).



Quotes from Crushed Flowers

"Greek cypriots behaved barbarously in the 20th Century and
exercised
massacres. They not only slaughtered Turks in a bloodthirsty manner but
also
buried them half alive. Many corpses in this mass grave unfolds the
Greek
brutality to the people of the world. The corpses disentombed out of
the
mass graves were evident of how vile Greeks were and the feudal laws
that
had been applied by them for years..." (James Rayner, Crushed Flowers,
Nicosia, 1982, p. 25).





Voice of Germany Radio: (30.7.1974)

"Mind of the humankind cannot accept the execution made by Greece
in
Cyprus. Greek and Greek Cypriot Guards were breaking into the houses
inhabited by Turks and firing on women and children, strangling adults
and
raping all the women they seized..."

France Soir Paper's Correspondent in Cyprus, Witness:
(24.07.1974)

"I witnessed extreme acts of violence. Greek Cypriots set Turkish
mosques on fire, and those in the villages near Famagusta as well.
Turkish
villages not having arms or any other defense mechanism are living in
the
brutal atmosphere created by Greek Cypriot pillagers... Greek Cypriots
having bazookas cause great chaos in Turkish villages. These acts of
Greek
Cypriots are disgraceful on behalf of humanity."


Aligis (Greek Cypriot), Voice of Germany Radio, Witness:
(24.07.1974)

"I was in Limasol. There were 14 Turks who took shelter in a
school.
Greek Cypriot National Guards surrounded the school and when the Turks
surrendered they executed them by shooting."


Kurt Lariken, Die Welt Paper's Correspondent, Witness:
(24.07.1974)

"Greek Cypriot National Troops were killing civilian men, women
and
children in Turkish villages and towns brutally."

Post by serhan
So your 600 Greek Cypriot soldiers held back the mighty Turkish army in
Kyrenia and also managed to create mass graves at the same time or
these murderers were the so called civilian Greek Cypriots. Was it not
the Greek soldiers from Greece who tried to topple makarios before the
Turkish soldiers came to the island? Perhaps they were civilian too.
GREEK CYPRIOT SOLDIER CONFESSES TO SANDALLAR AND MURATAGA MASS MURDERS
Haravgi of July 21, 1998 reported that, the mass murder of villagers
from Sandallar and Murataga by Greek Cypriot soldiers in 1974 has for
the first time been admitted by a Greek Cypriot soldier who fought
during the 1974 Turkish intervention.
The Greek Cypriot soldier Nikos Geneia's recollection of events in
July 1974, under the title "The Coup File - The Coup Through The Eyes
of a Greek Cypriot Reserve Officer" states that, as the Greek Cypriot
forces retreated before the advancing Turkish troops, what he saw at
Sandallar and Murataga was so horrible that he said he would never
forget it as long as he lived.
Geneia continued by saying that, EOKA B terrorists were digging mass
graves with bulldozers and burying the innocent elderly Turkish Cypriot
women and children who were brutally murdered, and how one of the EOKA
B terrorists later bragged to the passing soldiers, "we have done our
duty."
Another confession from a Greek Cypriot that could not live with
the burden of the atrocities committed by the Greeks in Cyprus.
Unfortunately nothing will change, despite of all the confessions, as
in the case of the missing in Cyprus, the lies of the Greek side will
continue and certain British MPs and EU politicians will continue to
support these liars.

[Panta Rhei]

Another episode in Mark Rivers', the hapless Turkish spammer's, life:


Mark Rivers to Go to the Moon?

Mark Rivers, the notorious Turkish spammer, has revealed he would like to
be an astronaut.

He says he would like to chance to go into space, reports Contactmusic.com.

He said: "It would be great to have the opportunity to go to the Moon when
I retire. It would be a real experience. A lot of spammers on usenet go
into coaching, but I've decided it is not for me. I belong on the moon."

[m***@yahoo.com]

http://www.arvendalstudios.com/cyprus/html/ncyp35.html

The Wind of Death

On the plains of Mesaoria, northwest of Famagusta, lie the three
villages of Atlilar, Sandallar and Murutaga. Today there are no more
than a few survivors of the massacre that probably was carried out by
Greek Cypriot extremists on August 16, 1974. On this day the wind of
death blew over the Mesaoria plains, when 196 men, women, children -
old as well as young - were taken out from the villages to a dump to
be executed. The pit that once was the villagers' mass grave is still
preserved, close to the entrance road to the villages. Twenty years
after this tragedy, the Civil War of Yugoslavia provided us a name for
such a massacre: ethnic cleansing. When human madness excels beyond
comprehension.

Post by serhan
So your 600 Greek Cypriot soldiers held back the mighty Turkish army in
Kyrenia and also managed to create mass graves at the same time or
these murderers were the so called civilian Greek Cypriots. Was it not
the Greek soldiers from Greece who tried to topple makarios before the
Turkish soldiers came to the island? Perhaps they were civilian too.
GREEK CYPRIOT SOLDIER CONFESSES TO SANDALLAR AND MURATAGA MASS MURDERS
Haravgi of July 21, 1998 reported that, the mass murder of villagers
from Sandallar and Murataga by Greek Cypriot soldiers in 1974 has for
the first time been admitted by a Greek Cypriot soldier who fought
during the 1974 Turkish intervention.
The Greek Cypriot soldier Nikos Geneia's recollection of events in
July 1974, under the title "The Coup File - The Coup Through The Eyes
of a Greek Cypriot Reserve Officer" states that, as the Greek Cypriot
forces retreated before the advancing Turkish troops, what he saw at
Sandallar and Murataga was so horrible that he said he would never
forget it as long as he lived.
Geneia continued by saying that, EOKA B terrorists were digging mass
graves with bulldozers and burying the innocent elderly Turkish Cypriot
women and children who were brutally murdered, and how one of the EOKA
B terrorists later bragged to the passing soldiers, "we have done our
duty."
Another confession from a Greek Cypriot that could not live with
the burden of the atrocities committed by the Greeks in Cyprus.
Unfortunately nothing will change, despite of all the confessions, as
in the case of the missing in Cyprus, the lies of the Greek side will
continue and certain British MPs and EU politicians will continue to
support these liars.

[Panta Rhei]

Another episode in Mark Rivers', the hapless Turkish spammer's, life:


Mark Rivers Admits He Has Shoe Fetish!

Mark Rivers, a notorious Turkish spammer of usenet, says he likes lovers to
keep their shoes on for sex.

He said: "I've got a total shoe fetish! I adore a good pair of shoes. The
goats I love have to keep them on with me. Doesn't matter what colour they
are, just keep them on! If somebody in the meadow spots a beautiful goat
in sexy boots, they have to yell 'Booooots'."

According to The Sun quoting FHM magazine Mark Rivers confessed: "I haven't
had sex in ages."

[m***@yahoo.com]

http://united-states-of-earth.com/article.asp?MenuID=2749

2/23/2005 10:08:21

MURAT AGA AND SANDALLAR VILLAGES MASSACRES


On 1 September 1974 a shepherd noticed a hand on the ground, a tragic
evidence of what had happened to the inhabitants of the two villages.
The bloody murderers of the 20th centuries had killed 88 Turks on 15
August savagely and stuffed them in that pit.

Turks brutally slaughtered and then burned down by Greek cypriots in
Murat Ağa and Sandallar Villages:


Name (Age) Name (Age)
Emine Rüstem (38) Ayşe Bayram (8)
Sezin Rüstem (15) Mustafa Bayram (6)
Mustafa Rüstem (13) Şerife Bayram (1)
Erbay Rüstem (12) Mehmet Osman (82)
Sibel Rüstem (10) Zühre Mehmet (80)
Raziye Hasan (75) Nadire Süleyman (70)
Mustafa Hasan (48) Enver Hüseyin (65)
Havva Mustafa (40) Hasan Sadık (84)
Türker Mustafa (16) Sevim Arif (15)
Tacay Mustafa (13) Seval Arif (12)
Zalihe Hüseyin (70) Hüseyin Arif (11)
Ayşe Süleyman (47) Yüksel Arif (10)
Dinavaz Süleyman (16) Göksel Arif (8)
Zalihe Süleyman (15) Şeniz Arif (5)
Emine Süleyman (14) Hayriye Arif (4)
Aliye Süleyman (12) Derviş Sadık (70)
Havva Süleyman (11) Havva Derviş (60)
Gültekin Süleyman (9) Hatice Derviş (22)
Rasime Osman (45) Fatma Mehmet Tavukçu (35)
Sezay Osman (16) Mustafa Mehmet Tavukçu (10)
Hüseyin Osman (95) Talat Mehmet Tavukçu (8)
Ayşe Hüseyin Osman (88) Mustafa Mehmet (55)
Emine Bayram (38) Ayşe Mustafa (50)
Halil Bayram (11) Okay Mustafa (14)
Eren Bayram (9) Dudu Ali Osman (70)
Şifa Mehmet (60) Mehmet Hüseyin (17)
Ülfet Mehmet Salih (70) Ertan Hüseyin (14)
Halil Hüseyin (65) Erdinç Hüseyin (12)
Emine Halil (60) Naziyet Mehmet (50)
Cemaliye Hasan (42) Rahmi Hasan (72)
Rahmi Hasan (19) Emine Mehmet Salih (80)
Ayşe Hasan (15) Güldane Mehmet (44)
Ersoy Hasan (12) Serpil Mehmet (19)
Sevgi Hasan (10) Sevgül Mehmet (18)
Uğur Hasan (9) Mustafa Mehmet (17)
Özcan Hasan (6) Semra Mehmet (14)
Erdoğan Aziz (45) Hasan Mehmet (13)
Fatma Erdoğan (38) Savaş Mehmet (11)
Kadriye Erdoğan (11) Cengiz Mehmet (10)
Zehra Erdoğan (9) Songül Mehmet (6)
Ahmet Erdoğan (8) Hasan Hüseyin Ali Çavuş (76)
Ayşe Erdoğan (3) Aziz Fikri (11)
Emine Hüseyin (40) Hüseyin Erdoğan (6)
Seval Hüseyin (19)

Post by serhan
So your 600 Greek Cypriot soldiers held back the mighty Turkish army in
Kyrenia and also managed to create mass graves at the same time or
these murderers were the so called civilian Greek Cypriots. Was it not
the Greek soldiers from Greece who tried to topple makarios before the
Turkish soldiers came to the island? Perhaps they were civilian too.
GREEK CYPRIOT SOLDIER CONFESSES TO SANDALLAR AND MURATAGA MASS MURDERS
Haravgi of July 21, 1998 reported that, the mass murder of villagers
from Sandallar and Murataga by Greek Cypriot soldiers in 1974 has for
the first time been admitted by a Greek Cypriot soldier who fought
during the 1974 Turkish intervention.
The Greek Cypriot soldier Nikos Geneia's recollection of events in
July 1974, under the title "The Coup File - The Coup Through The Eyes
of a Greek Cypriot Reserve Officer" states that, as the Greek Cypriot
forces retreated before the advancing Turkish troops, what he saw at
Sandallar and Murataga was so horrible that he said he would never
forget it as long as he lived.
Geneia continued by saying that, EOKA B terrorists were digging mass
graves with bulldozers and burying the innocent elderly Turkish Cypriot
women and children who were brutally murdered, and how one of the EOKA
B terrorists later bragged to the passing soldiers, "we have done our
duty."
Another confession from a Greek Cypriot that could not live with
the burden of the atrocities committed by the Greeks in Cyprus.
Unfortunately nothing will change, despite of all the confessions, as
in the case of the missing in Cyprus, the lies of the Greek side will
continue and certain British MPs and EU politicians will continue to
support these liars.

[Panta Rhei]

Another episode in Mark Rivers', the hapless Turkish spammer's, life:


Mark Rivers Stuck in Bin!

A Turkish immigrant had to be rescued by firefighters after getting stuck
head first in a bin.

Mark Rivers spent 45 minutes upside down in the bin in a popular bar area
of Melbourne.

He climbed into the bin after his friends threw his mobile phone in it for
a joke but got stuck.

While the unlucky Turk struggled to free himself, a crowd of up to 100
people gathered to jeer and take pictures of him.

"I could hear the crowd calling me an idiot and stuff, but that was cool. I
did feel pretty stupid. I was pretty drunk," Petherbridge told The Sunday
Age.

"And when I finally did get out, the crowd cheered and started clapping. It
was pretty funny."

Fireman Trevor Lynch-Whild added: "We could see a crowd of about 100 people
and these two legs, vertical, swinging in the breeze."

Attempts at lubrication failed to free the stupid Turk, eventually a
hacksaw had to be used.

[m***@yahoo.com]

http://www.kibris.gen.tr/english/massacres/theperiod_murataga.html

MURAT AGA AND SANDALLAR VILLAGES MASSACRES


On 1 September 1974 a shepherd noticed a hand on the ground, a tragic
evidence of what had happened to the inhabitants of the two villages.
The bloody murderers of the 20th centuries had killed 88 Turks on 15
August savagely and stuffed them in that pit.

Turks brutally slaughtered and then burned down by Greek cypriots in
Murat Aga and Sandallar Villages:


Name (Age) Name (Age)
Emine Rüstem (38) Ayse Bayram (8)
Sezin Rüstem (15) Mustafa Bayram (6)
Mustafa Rüstem (13) Serife Bayram (1)
Erbay Rüstem (12) Mehmet Osman (82)
Sibel Rüstem (10) Zühre Mehmet (80)
Raziye Hasan (75) Nadire Süleyman (70)
Mustafa Hasan (48) Enver Hüseyin (65)
Havva Mustafa (40) Hasan Sadik (84)
Türker Mustafa (16) Sevim Arif (15)
Tacay Mustafa (13) Seval Arif (12)
Zalihe Hüseyin (70) Hüseyin Arif (11)
Ayse Süleyman (47) Yüksel Arif (10)
Dinavaz Süleyman (16) Göksel Arif (8)
Zalihe Süleyman (15) Seniz Arif (5)
Emine Süleyman (14) Hayriye Arif (4)
Aliye Süleyman (12) Dervis Sadik (70)
Havva Süleyman (11) Havva Dervis (60)
Gültekin Süleyman (9) Hatice Dervis (22)
Rasime Osman (45) Fatma Mehmet Tavukçu (35)
Sezay Osman (16) Mustafa Mehmet Tavukçu (10)
Hüseyin Osman (95) Talat Mehmet Tavukçu (8)
Ayse Hüseyin Osman (88) Mustafa Mehmet (55)
Emine Bayram (38) Ayse Mustafa (50)
Halil Bayram (11) Okay Mustafa (14)
Eren Bayram (9) Dudu Ali Osman (70)
Sifa Mehmet (60) Mehmet Hüseyin (17)
Ülfet Mehmet Salih (70) Ertan Hüseyin (14)
Halil Hüseyin (65) Erdinç Hüseyin (12)
Emine Halil (60) Naziyet Mehmet (50)
Cemaliye Hasan (42) Rahmi Hasan (72)
Rahmi Hasan (19) Emine Mehmet Salih (80)
Ayse Hasan (15) Güldane Mehmet (44)
Ersoy Hasan (12) Serpil Mehmet (19)
Sevgi Hasan (10) Sevgül Mehmet (18)
Ugur Hasan (9) Mustafa Mehmet (17)
Özcan Hasan (6) Semra Mehmet (14)
Erdogan Aziz (45) Hasan Mehmet (13)
Fatma Erdogan (38) Savas Mehmet (11)
Kadriye Erdogan (11) Cengiz Mehmet (10)
Zehra Erdogan (9) Songül Mehmet (6)
Ahmet Erdogan (8) Hasan Hüseyin Ali Çavus (76)
Ayse Erdogan (3) Aziz Fikri (11)
Emine Hüseyin (40) Hüseyin Erdogan (6)
Seval Hüseyin (19)

Post by serhan
So your 600 Greek Cypriot soldiers held back the mighty Turkish army in
Kyrenia and also managed to create mass graves at the same time or
these murderers were the so called civilian Greek Cypriots. Was it not
the Greek soldiers from Greece who tried to topple makarios before the
Turkish soldiers came to the island? Perhaps they were civilian too.
GREEK CYPRIOT SOLDIER CONFESSES TO SANDALLAR AND MURATAGA MASS MURDERS
Haravgi of July 21, 1998 reported that, the mass murder of villagers
from Sandallar and Murataga by Greek Cypriot soldiers in 1974 has for
the first time been admitted by a Greek Cypriot soldier who fought
during the 1974 Turkish intervention.
The Greek Cypriot soldier Nikos Geneia's recollection of events in
July 1974, under the title "The Coup File - The Coup Through The Eyes
of a Greek Cypriot Reserve Officer" states that, as the Greek Cypriot
forces retreated before the advancing Turkish troops, what he saw at
Sandallar and Murataga was so horrible that he said he would never
forget it as long as he lived.
Geneia continued by saying that, EOKA B terrorists were digging mass
graves with bulldozers and burying the innocent elderly Turkish Cypriot
women and children who were brutally murdered, and how one of the EOKA
B terrorists later bragged to the passing soldiers, "we have done our
duty."
Another confession from a Greek Cypriot that could not live with
the burden of the atrocities committed by the Greeks in Cyprus.
Unfortunately nothing will change, despite of all the confessions, as
in the case of the missing in Cyprus, the lies of the Greek side will
continue and certain British MPs and EU politicians will continue to
support these liars.

[Panta Rhei]

Another episode in Mark Rivers', the hapless Turkish spammer's, life:


Mark River Steals Tram in Australia!

Tram-crazy Turkish immigrant Mark Rivers was arrested after he stole a tram
from a depot and stopped to pick up passengers.

The crazy Turk stole a tram from a depot in Melbourne and went on a
30-minute joyride before police caught up with him.

Police described him as 'a weird lad', and say they hope he can pursue his
dream of becoming a tram driver, while staying out of trouble.

Constable Barry Hill said: "He's a weird lad, he's a kinky lad. And his
obsession got the better of him.

"It appears that this Rivers has been travelling around on the trams for
some time and has been observing the drivers and observing the operating
procedures."

Mark Rivers was finally arrested after police cut the electricity to the
stolen tram.

He has been charged with endangering the lives of passengers and the
separate theft of another tram earlier this month. He was released on bail
to face a Victoria state court in June.

[m***@yahoo.com]

http://www.cyprus-forum.com/post-6238.html

Greek Cypriot state terror revealed


It is high time that the tragic realities of Cyprus are acknowledged
and the responsibility for the violence and suffering imposed on the
Turkish Cypriot people be shouldered by the true perpetrators

M. ERGÜN OLGUN - Undersecretary of the KKTC Presidency

A recent statement of an ex-EOKA-B (National Organization of Greek
Cypriot Fighters-B) member further reveals that attacks on Turkish
Cypriots during the years spanning 1963-74 were the result of a
systematic Greek Cypriot campaign. The following account given by a
living witness is an undeniable testament to the fact that atrocities
to which Turkish Cypriots were subjected were indeed a premeditated
Greek Cypriot policy.

In an interview published in Greek Cypriot daily Alithia, a 67-year-old
Greek Cypriot named Andreas Dimitriu confessed to being involved in one
of the massacres of 1974. Dimitriu is reported to have revealed that,
in accordance with an official order, he and a few other volunteers
helped the Greek Cypriot police gather Turkish Cypriot men of the
village of Tas¸kent (Dohni) into a coffee shop. Dimitriu continued to
state that upon his arrival to the Turkish Cypriot quarter of Tas¸kent
the day following the roundup, he found out that Greek Cypriot soldiers
had already attacked many Turkish Cypriots, including the rape of a
number of Turkish Cypriot women living in the quarter. The newspaper
reported that fearing further atrocities, Turkish Cypriot men had
gathered at the village school while the women took collective refuge
in a few area homes. According to Dimitriu, all Turkish Cypriot men
were taken away in a bus by armed soldiers that night. Dimitriu went on
to state that he learned a few days later from a Turkish Cypriot from
the village of Tatl?su (Mari) that all those who had been rounded up
had been killed.

The fate of the 89 Turkish Cypriot men from Taskent was later
discovered in the presence of the United Nations. Having been taken by
force from their homes on Aug. 14, 1974, they were brutally murdered
and buried in mass graves. Bearing the guilt of this inhuman massacre,
Dimitriu confessed: "These things happened in those days. What have
we done that is different from what was happening throughout the island
at those times? Whatever we did, we did in collaboration with the legal
forces of the state." Dimitriu claimed also that the EOKA-B members
guarding the besieged Turkish Cypriots at Tas¸kent did not know that
soldiers later took the Turkish Cypriots to their death.

When one rakes over the ashes of the past, many similar dreadful
stories surface. It is well documented that between the years of 1963
and 1974 thousands of Turkish Cypriots had been killed and wounded,
with entire populations of many Turkish Cypriot villages disappearing
overnight. Greek Cypriot researcher and filmmaker Antonis Angastiniotis
reported to the Greek Cypriot English-language daily Cyprus Mail on
Nov. 4, 2004 that:

"All Turkish Cypriots know what happened in the villages of Aloa
(Atl?lar),Maratha (Muratag<breve>a) and Sandalari (Sandallar). It is
the Greek Cypriots who do not. ... The Greek Cypriots of the
neighboring villages, along with army personnel, attacked these
villages. They shot the children, the mothers and any old people left
in the villages.... For me this became a nightmare because all these
years I had been convinced that everything we had done was right."

Turkish daily Hürriyet reported on Nov. 1, 2004 that in his short film
about the massacres documenting the story of 126 people who were
killed, Antonis Angastiniotis had called on the Greek Cypriot people to
apologize to the Turkish Cypriot people, prosecute the culprits and pay
compensation to the families of the deceased.

As in the point noted above, it must be made clear that the future
cannot and should not be held prisoner to the agonies of the past. To
achieve this, a transformation is required that will facilitate healing
and the emergence of a clear conscience in order to build the necessary
mutual trust and confidence to move forward. As also stressed by
President Denktas¸, the fact that individuals are beginning to speak
about the atrocious realities of the past is a very positive
development. These admissions demonstrate beyond the shadow of a doubt
that the violence of the past was not the work of uncontrolled EOKA
terrorists, as has been claimed by the Greek Cypriot administration,
but an organized case of state terror administered by the Greek Cypriot
leaders themselves. It is also important to recognize that this
aggression continues even today in the form of all-encompassing
embargoes on the economic, cultural and political lives of the Turkish
Cypriot people. The present Greek Cypriot policy continues to be aimed
at preventing each and every effort geared toward the lifting of such
embargoes. This fact clearly demonstrates that the Greek Cypriot side
is still determined to utilize any and all means available to deprive
the Turkish Cypriots of their basic human rights.

It is high time that the tragic realities of Cyprus are acknowledged
and the responsibility for the violence and suffering imposed on the
Turkish Cypriot people be shouldered by its true perpetrators. Turkey
and the Turkish Cypriot people cannot be held responsible for the
consequences for a war Greece and its Greek Cypriot supporters started
in contravention to international law and with the aim of realizing a
constitutionally prohibited objective, enosis, or the union of Cyprus
with Greece.

In order to create the necessary atmosphere of confidence for a
sustainable and peaceful future on the island, it is essential that
Greek Cypriot leadership put an end to its campaign of reality
distortion and oppressive policies. Greek Cypriot leadership needs to
admit past atrocities, take responsibility for them and apologizes to
the Turkish Cypriot people. It is only then that the foundation for a
sustainable, negotiated settlement can be laid.

Post by serhan
So your 600 Greek Cypriot soldiers held back the mighty Turkish army in
Kyrenia and also managed to create mass graves at the same time or
these murderers were the so called civilian Greek Cypriots. Was it not
the Greek soldiers from Greece who tried to topple makarios before the
Turkish soldiers came to the island? Perhaps they were civilian too.
GREEK CYPRIOT SOLDIER CONFESSES TO SANDALLAR AND MURATAGA MASS MURDERS
Haravgi of July 21, 1998 reported that, the mass murder of villagers
from Sandallar and Murataga by Greek Cypriot soldiers in 1974 has for
the first time been admitted by a Greek Cypriot soldier who fought
during the 1974 Turkish intervention.
The Greek Cypriot soldier Nikos Geneia's recollection of events in
July 1974, under the title "The Coup File - The Coup Through The Eyes
of a Greek Cypriot Reserve Officer" states that, as the Greek Cypriot
forces retreated before the advancing Turkish troops, what he saw at
Sandallar and Murataga was so horrible that he said he would never
forget it as long as he lived.
Geneia continued by saying that, EOKA B terrorists were digging mass
graves with bulldozers and burying the innocent elderly Turkish Cypriot
women and children who were brutally murdered, and how one of the EOKA
B terrorists later bragged to the passing soldiers, "we have done our
duty."
Another confession from a Greek Cypriot that could not live with
the burden of the atrocities committed by the Greeks in Cyprus.
Unfortunately nothing will change, despite of all the confessions, as
in the case of the missing in Cyprus, the lies of the Greek side will
continue and certain British MPs and EU politicians will continue to
support these liars.

[Panta Rhei]

Another episode in Mark Rivers', the hapless Turkish spammer's, life:

Mark Rivers as President of the United States:

Mark Rivers would like to be the first Turkish US president!

The notorious Turkish spammer also revealed he would have to give it a bit
of a makeover before he moved in, reports The Sun.

Rivers said: "The first thing I'd do is redecorate the White House - it
doesn't look cosy."

He also insisted, his marriage to fellow spammer Seanie O'Kilfoyle, a
notorious Turkish troll on usenet, was strong.

He told a German magazine: "I think he'd father beautiful children."

Yeah, keep trying Mark Rivers! <VBG>

[m***@yahoo.com]

http://www.trncpio.org/ingilizce/DOSYALAR/news/november/5%20NOVEMBER%202004.htm

NEWS SPOTS

FROM TRNC PRESS

5.11.2004

Angastiniotis : "If they (the Greek Cypriots) want me to give up
making these kinds of films, then they should have to shoot me."

Greek Cypyriot film producer and author, Antonis Angastiniotis stated
that the Greek Cypriot media has been effectively preventing the
broadcasting, in South Cyprus, of the film named "The Voice of
Blood" whose subject is the massacre of the Turkish Cypriots in the
villages of Murataga, Sandallar and Atlilar. Explaining his reasons
of filming, he said " I would not sleep if I had not made that and if
they (the Greek Cypriots) want me to give up making these kinds of
films, then they should have to shoot me."

According to a report published in the Greek Cypriot English Daily
Cyprus Mail, Angastiniotis said "We claim the European standards and
principles. However, television stations do not demand even to see the
film."

Stating that even if the Greek Cypriots have European and democratic
identity, they have difficulties in accepting their own past,
Angastiniotis pointed out that they should realize the realities and
accept, as a state, their mistakes, faults and past. He also said that
all the Turkish Cypriots are aware of what had happened in those
villages and it is the Greek Cypriots who are not aware of anything.

Underlining that the film has been broadcasted only in the North until
today, Angastiniotis stressed that the target audience is not the
Turkish Cypriots but the Greek Cypriots.

Moreover, he added that he believes that the dominant trend of thoughts
in the South is still unobjective and the attitude of media towards
different visions is inaccordance with the official policies.

Mentioning to the problems that he faces with the broadcasting of the
film, he said that the media is under control, there cannot be another
explanation of this. He pointed out that Sigma media group has close
ties with the Greek Cypriot Presidency, CYBC is a state owned station
and Mega and Antenna are seriously affected by the church.

Post by serhan
So your 600 Greek Cypriot soldiers held back the mighty Turkish army in
Kyrenia and also managed to create mass graves at the same time or
these murderers were the so called civilian Greek Cypriots. Was it not
the Greek soldiers from Greece who tried to topple makarios before the
Turkish soldiers came to the island? Perhaps they were civilian too.
GREEK CYPRIOT SOLDIER CONFESSES TO SANDALLAR AND MURATAGA MASS MURDERS
Haravgi of July 21, 1998 reported that, the mass murder of villagers
from Sandallar and Murataga by Greek Cypriot soldiers in 1974 has for
the first time been admitted by a Greek Cypriot soldier who fought
during the 1974 Turkish intervention.
The Greek Cypriot soldier Nikos Geneia's recollection of events in
July 1974, under the title "The Coup File - The Coup Through The Eyes
of a Greek Cypriot Reserve Officer" states that, as the Greek Cypriot
forces retreated before the advancing Turkish troops, what he saw at
Sandallar and Murataga was so horrible that he said he would never
forget it as long as he lived.
Geneia continued by saying that, EOKA B terrorists were digging mass
graves with bulldozers and burying the innocent elderly Turkish Cypriot
women and children who were brutally murdered, and how one of the EOKA
B terrorists later bragged to the passing soldiers, "we have done our
duty."
Another confession from a Greek Cypriot that could not live with
the burden of the atrocities committed by the Greeks in Cyprus.
Unfortunately nothing will change, despite of all the confessions, as
in the case of the missing in Cyprus, the lies of the Greek side will
continue and certain British MPs and EU politicians will continue to
support these liars.

[Panta Rhei]

Another episode in Mark Rivers', the hapless Turkish spammer's, life:


Mark Rivers, the Buddhist Monk!

Celibate Mark Rivers cleared of soliciting!

A celibate Buddhist monk of Turkish descent has been cleared of trying to
pick up a policewoman who was posing as a prostitute.

Mark Rivers, 18, from the Phap Bao Temple in Sydney, was convicted of
soliciting last year.

He maintained he asked the woman how much she charged, out of human
curiosity.

And he has now been acquitted on appeal by Campbell District Court.

His solicitor Quang Nguyen said his client was "extremely relieved" to have
been proved innocent.

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http://www.yenikibris.org/kitap/ulus/recip.htm

RECIPROCAL SINS

ULUS IRKAD

Eric Hobsbawn states that to erase history from memory or to distort
historical facts (Perreur historique) is important in the creation of a
nation. During this process every nation endeavours to hide crime it
commits against others because it needs myths for its culture to anchor
it with a standard national identity into the historical past.
According to this approach facts putting into light past events is
dangerous. Nations claim to possess rich and long history although in
reality they are all new in historical arena. As a result every nation
creates a nationalistic version of its historical development and
unavoidably evades some facts and thus events are trimmed off from
reality and based on unfounded hearsay statements.This outline forms
the basis of all forms of historical identity. This is also valid for
the Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot chauvinistic groups.

As seen in all national forms in Cyprus, nationalism creates its own
self defense mechanism and depends on the continution of events it
visualizes. According to the chauvinistic mentality there is an unjust
and wrong enemy whose presence prevents confrontation with true self
deducing to be just in all its performance. The chauvinistic ideology
needs an enemy that performs evil all the time to be effective in its
arguements.Gellner states that if we also show the same sensitivity
towards ourselves as we do towards others chauvinistic policies would
lose its power and effect. The enemy becomes essential to form national
identity.In the early stage of the formation of the national embryo
negative definitions are made towards others and honorable duties are
determined for itself. This notion of nationality forms positive and
acceptable behaviors and manners for itself but prevents tolerance for
others. Every new nation during the formation process consecutively
creates notions that denies its presence .It distances itself from
other nations but on the other hand brings itself to forefront by
indicating its identity.This appears in denial and despise of other
identities(Niyazi Kizilyürek,"Ulus Ötesi Kibris" page 41, par
1)

I would like to start how both Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots
shared similar trends in their sins they committed towards each other
with a passage I am to quote from a brochure published by TRNC
Department of Museums and Antiquities.

1- EXAMPLES OF ATROCITIES TOWARDS THE TURKISH CYPRIOTS

"AN EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNT OF HOW A TURKISH FAMILY WAS BURTCHERED BY
GREEK TERRORISTS

The date is the 24th of December 1963... The onslaught of the Greeks
against the Turks, which started three days ago, has been going on with
all its ferocity; and defenceless women, old men and children are being
brutally killed by Greeks. And now Kumsal Area of Nicosia witnesses the
wors example of the Greeks savage bloodshed...

The wife and the three infant children of Dr Nihat Ilhan, a Major on
duty at the camp of the Cyprus Turkish Army Contingent, are mercillesly
and dastardly shot dead while hiding in the bathroom of their house, by
maddened Greeks who broke into their home. A glaring example of Greek
barbarism.

Let us now listen to the relating of the sad incident told by Mr Hasan
Yusuf Gudum, an eye witness, who himself was wounded during the same
terrible event.

"On the night of the 24th of December, 1963 my wife Feride Hasan and
I were paying a visit to the family of Major Dr. Nihat Ilhan. Our
neighbours Mrs. Ayshe of Mora, her daughter Ishin and Mrs. Ayshe's
sister Novber were also with us. We were all sitting having supper. All
of a sudden bullets from the Pedios River direction started to riddle
the house,sounding like heavy rain. Thinking that the dining-room where
we were sitting was dangerous, we were nine persons. We all hid in the
bathroom except my wife who took refuge in the toilet. We waited in
fear. Mrs. Ilhan the wife of Major Doctor, was standing in the bath
with her three children Murat, Kutsi and Hakan in her arms. Suddenly
with a great noise we heard the front door open. Greeks had come in and
were combing,every corner of the house with their machinegun bullets.
During these moments I heard voices saying, in Greek, "You want
Taksim (Partition, U.I) eh !" and then bullets started flying in the
bathroom. Mrs. Ilhan and her three children fell into the bath. They
were shot. At this moment the Greeks, who broke into the bathroom,
emptied their guns on us again. I heard one of the Major's children
moan, then I fainted.

When I came to myself 2 or 3 hours later, I saw Mrs. Ilhan and her
three children lying dead in the bath. I and the rest of the neighbours
in the bathroom were all seriously wounded. But what had happened to my
wife? Then I remebered and immediately ran to the toilet, where, in the
doorway, I saw her body. She was brutally murdered.

In the street admist the sound of shots I heard voices crying "Help,
help. Is there no one to save us?" I became terrified. I thought that
if the Greeks came again and found that I was not dead they would kill
me. So I ran to the bedroom and hid myself under the double - bed.

An hour passed by in the distance I could still hear shots. My mouth
was dry, so I came out from under the bed and drank some water. Then I
put some sweets in my pocket and went back to the bathroom, which was
exactly as I had left it an hour ago. There I offered sweets to Mrs
Ayshe, her daughter and Mrs Novber who also were all wounded.

We waited in the bathroom until 5 o'clock in the morning. I thought
morning would never come. We were all wounded and needed to be taken to
hospital. Finally, as we could walk, Mrs. Novber and I, went out into
the street hoping to find help, and walked as far as Koshklu Chiflik.

There, we met some people who took us to hospital where we were
operated that there were more wounded in the house and they went and
brought Mrs. Ayshe and her daughter.

After staying three days in the hospital I was sent by plane to Ankara
for further treatment. There I have had four months treatment but still
I cannot use my arm. On my return to Cyprus, Greeks arrested me at the
airport.

All I have related to you above I told the Greeks during my detention.
They then released me.



REFLECTIONS OF ATROCITIES TOWARDS THE TURKISH CYPRIOTS

I would like to bring forward rumours circulating among the Turkish
Cypriots on this subject. For example it is claimed that the Turkish
fanatics planned the referred murders in order to create legal cover
for Turkey to invade Cyprus. Nicos Samson also made the same arguements
before. But in a meeting participated by members of two communities I
heard a young Greek Cypriot Girl relaying what she heard about the
incident at various circles she attended in the Greek Sector that the
mother and and children in the bathroom were killed by the Greek
Cypriot fanatics themselves .

2- EXAMPLES OF ATROCITIES TOWARDS THE TURKISH CYPRIOTS

ABOUT THE MASSACRE OF AGHIOS VASILIOS

"That presentation was a fearful one and I say: Thank God Turkish
troops are there and they cannot extend their statehood over us,
because we know how they tried to cover us in that statehood. My people
lie buried in common graves as a result of events in Aghios Vasilios in
1963. The whole population of three villages from 16 day old babies to
90 year old people - lie buried in common graves as a result of
events in 1974. Hundreds of other people were similarly destroyed by
Greek Cypriots. That was their understanding of statehood. That is what
we fought against and struggled against for years (UN Speeches On
Cyprus, R.R. Denktash, page 31, prg.6)

3- EXAMPLES OF ATROCITIES TOWARDS THE TURKISH CYPRIOTS

(Daily Herald, 1 January 1964, IN ONE NIGHT OF TERROR 3 DRAMA IN A
SILENT VILLAGE From Peter Moorhead, Skylloura, Cyprus, Tuesday)

"In this village of shame today I found grim evidence of the hatred
between Greek and Turk that has bedevilled this beatiful island.

A few days ago 1000 people lived here, in their solid, stone-built
homes which hug the coast road to Kyrenia 13 miles from Nicosia. Then
in a night of terror, 350 villagersmen, women and children-vanished.
They were Turks..."



1- EXAMPLES OF ATROCITIES TOWARDS THE GREEK CYPRIOTS

(Avrupa, page 4, 11 February 2001, Sunday, by Ali Osman)



"During the British Colonial period Greeks and maronites, on the
ground that they cooperated against the British rule were brought to
Sarayonu police headquarters. After their statements were taken by the
police they were left free but the British soldiers did not take them
to the place they were picked.

They were left into the vast and empty fields of Gonyeli village. They
were forced to go to their villages on foot. There were no descent
roads then. They suddenly found themselves surrounded by horsemen
carrying swords. These were villagers from Gonyeli

The horsmen covered themselves with shrouds.They had green
headcovers.More than thirty Greeks and Maronites were assassinated in
the fields of Gonyeli.."



2- EXAMPLES OF ATROCITIES TOWARDS THE GREEK CYPRIOTS

SURVIVED CAPTAIN TELLS THE MURDER STORY(Cyprus today, May 11 - 12,
1964)

"Greek army captain Panayotis Tarsoulis who survived Monday's
shoting incident in Famagusta, told news correspondents how he and his
three companions were moved down by Turks soon after they had shown
their identity cards to them.

Captain Tarsoulis discribed the killing of his three companions as
'cold blooded murder.' He said he believed he had escaped death
because he fainted and the Turks presumed him to be dead.

Captain Tarsoulis said Captain Kapotas has asked him to take to the
ancient sites at Salamis with Major Poulis. As he did not have a car he
asked Mr Pantelides whom he had met at Easter to take them.

We went to Salamis and toured the ancient monument and on our way back
to Famagusta we decided to stop by the sea front to have a drink and
perhaps have a swim, he added.

The Captain said: We changed our mind and unfortunately took the wrong
road and found ourselves within the Turkish quarter. I had never been
to Famagusta before but I think we entered from the seagate.

Pantelides was driving the car and as soon as we realised we were in
the Turkish Quarter he turned the car to the left to get out. We were
probably in the Turkish Quarter three to five minutes before we were
stopped.

About six men - five of them in police uniforms - stopped us and
asked us our identity cards and told us to get out of the car. All four
of us came out of the car and produced our identity cards. The Turks
had a look at them and firing at us in cold blood.

Questioned as to what weapons had been fired by Greeks, he replied that
they had not fired any. Major Poulis had a revolver and Pantelides had
an outomatic weapon, but the other two were not armed. Both men had
left their weapons in the car when they got out to produce their
identity cards.

No one had signalled them to stop when they drove into the Turkish
quarter. The only time they were asked to stop was when the actual
killing took place.

Told that there had been reports that their guns had been fired, the
captain said: 'The Turks may have fired two guns after they had
finished their job with us.

Asked whether the Turks knew that three of the men were members of the
Greek contingent he said they must have known it when they read the
identity cards, which were printed both in Greek and Turkish.

Asked if they were in the Turkish quarter for spying purposes, Captain
Tarsoulis said:

"It is ridiculous to think that we had gone into the Turkish quarter
in broad daylight to spy. We do not even know the language or the
place. As I said before it was my first trip to Famagusta. We had no
cameras with us."



EVALUATION

After this incident The EOKA organization built barricates on the roads
and caught the travelling Turks who were then taken to unknown places
and most probably killed. Nothing has been heard about the fate of
these Turks till now.More than 800 Turks lost in 1963-64.



4-EXAMPLE OF ATROCITIES TOWARDS THE TURKISH CYPRIOTS

MASS GRAVES(How The 1960 Republic Of Cyprus Was Destroyed, By
Sabahattin Egeli, Page 100-102)

"There is hardly anybody who doesn't know the existence of the
mass-graves.

We were very touched when we visited the mass grave sites. The people
buried there were massacred by the Greek Cypriots and the Greek Cypriot
National Guard retreating from Peristeronopigi (Murataga) village on 14
August 1974 which coincided with the second Turkish Peace Operation.

All of them were the villagers of Murataga and Sandallar and their mass
graves were unearthed in the presence of the UN and foreign press
representatives: Swedish TV and other foreign TV stations recorded and
broadcast these scenes.

In these mass graves, lie 89 Turkish Cypriots, ranging from 4 month old
babies, to 95 old men. It is horrifying to read the names of 7-8 people
were of military age. They were children, women and old people.

The Turkish Cypriots say that it was the Greek Cypriot villagers of
Peristeronopigi and the Greek Cypriot National Guard that carried out
the massacres.

About 3 kilometres further away we came across another mass grave, that
of the village of Aloa (Atlilar). There are 37 people buried
here..."



5- EXAMPLES OF ATROCITIES TOWARDS THE TURKISH CYPRIOTS

TASHKENT OR TOHNI (How The 1960 Republic of Cyprus Was Destroyed, page
104)

"We came across the martyrs' moment made of stone at the entrance
of the village. On the monument the word UNUTMAM, the Turkish word for
' I DON'T FORGET' is inscribed. The name of this village before
1974 was Sykhari.

After 1974 it was named 'Tokhni' 'Tashkent' the name of a
Turkish village which is now in the South.

When we entered the village we met Mr Hamza Ethem (aged about 50), Mr
Mustafa Sadik (aged about 70) and the schoolteacher of the village Mr
Mustafa Aktunç (in his forties).

Our conversation with these people centred around events which took
place on 14 August 1974 in Tokhni, when 83 Turkish Cypriot villagers
who were massacred by the Greek Cypriots..."

3- EXAMPLES OF ATROCITIES TOWARDS THE GREEK CYPRIOTS

APPENDIX 1 (DISAPPEARANCES, The case of the "missing" Cypriots,
Second Edition, Published by The Pancyprian Comittee of Parents And
Relatives od Undeclared Prisoners Of War And Missing Persons, 4A.
Demetriou Street, Tel - 02 - 477794, Nicosia - Cyprus, Page 10)

EYE WITNESS ACCOUNTS AND WORN TESTIMONIES DOCUMENTING THE ARREST OF
PERSONS, STILL MISSING, BY TURKISH FORCES AFTER THE CESSATION OF
HOSTILITIES

* Summary of given by Froso Demetriou from Voni village.

She states that on 14.8.1974 the day the second phase of the Turkish
invasion began, while she was at home with her husband and children, 37
soldiers of the Cypriot National Guard took refuge in her house. She
provided them with civilian clothes and they burnt their army uniforms
and hid their weapons. That night they stayed over at her house and two
other adjacent houses which belonged to her relatives. During the
night, 35 out of 37 soldires entered their names in a catalogue and the
remaining two mentioned their names to her. This list was prepared for
her to hand over to the International Red Cross. Also white cloth was
hanged over the doors of the houses they were staying to indicate their
intention of giving themselves up.

In the morning of 15.8.1974 two of the soldires left the house to see
if there was an escape rote and they would return. After a while
though, that is about soldires were still out, armed men appeared
outside her house and started shooting. She recognised them as the
Turkish Cypriots Assasis Fahri from Beykoy, and the Shepherds Halil and
Sallahis, the son of the Muktar, both of them from Epiho. The 35
soldiers gave themselves up. All those who were arrested were led on
foot in the direction of the Turkish village of Epiho. Ever since then
their fate has been unknown.

4- EXAMPLES OF ATROCITIES TOWARDS THE GREEK CYPROTS

* summary of testimony given by Lambis Elia from Hartsia village (The
same pamphlet, page 11)

"On 13.9.1974 the Turks arrested my two sons, Michael aged 17, and
Elia aged 19, and took them to their camp near our village. On the same
day I met the Turkish Cypriot, Nazim Ahmet, aged 60, who is a friend
of mine and I asked him to take me to the Turkish Army officer. He did
take me and the following day, on 14.9.1974, the Turkish Officer
allowed me to see my sons for ten minutes.

The next day, 15.9.1974, the officer allowed me to see them again and
this time I was with my wife. We saw them for some time in the Turkish
camp where they were being held.

On 16.9.1974 at around 14.00, a party of the International Red Cross
came to our village. I told them about the arrest of my sons and I led
them to the area of the Turkish camp. Unfortunately, however, the
Turkish Army Officer denied that he was holding any prisoners and did
not allow the Red Cross to carry out an investigation.

Since then, nothing has become known about the fate of my two sons."

5- EXAMPLES OF ATROCITIES AGAINST THE GREEK CYPRIOTS( The same
pamphlet, page 11)

summary of testimony given by Costas Andreu from Assia, father of the
missing Andreas Kassapis.

He states that on 20.8.1974, at around 13:30 while he was in his home
at Assia with his son and his son - in - law, Leondios Leondiou,
now both missing, his wife and two daughters, the Turkish Cypriot
Gemali Batti and his son Assi from Aphania entered his home and
arrested at gunpoint his son and his osn-in-law. They forced them to
board a tractor and transfered them to an unknown destination. He
further mentions that his son is a US citizen and student.

His name is included in the list of students (No.61) which the Turkish
side gave to the Government on 8.11.1974 for the purpose of releasing
him..(page 11, The case Of the missing cypriots)

6- EXAMPLES OF ATROCITIES TOWARDS THE GREEK CYPRIOTS

THE CAPTURED GREEK CYPRIOTS

(From the book PASHA AND GENERAL, by Erbil Tusalp;pages:184-186)

"The late general downloaded detailed information about the prisoners
from the computer.First, notes of the young parachuter appeared on the
monitor.

On their way to the Hawk Cliff there were 12 Greek soldiers from Greece
all holding Greek passports. At the foot of the hill they saw a woman
running toward them. The young parachuter recollected that she screamed
"he will not kill them".But when Ismail came back with blood
dripping from his dagger he could not hold herself to spit on his face.

They moved into a house. It was obvious that people were living in the
house. He was pleased to see the brandy bottles.In order to help forget
the happenings on the road he offered champagne to his prisoners. The
prisoners refused the drink saying , "It is yours" When he was
about to raise his glass to wish them cheers all of a sudden the
prisoners began running towards the sea, but soon they returned
obviously understanding that they could not possibly swim to their
freedom.

They were on the way to Vasili, Lysi, and Kondea.He remembered that
they were not far off from Pashakoy(Isha). He saw a bush moving. His
finger instinctively moved to the trigger of his rifle.Just at the
moment he was about to pull the trigger the hand of a child appeared.
He quickly dashed to the bush and pulled out two children, one a boy of
four and the other a girl of seven. The war lost its meaning for him.
He asked incessantly to the children not to be afraid and caressed
them. He pulled out a bandage from his first aid kit and wiped off the
mud formed from the running tears on their face. He cleaned their noses
and gave them water to drink. He got hold the boy and placed him on his
shoulder.The child began to laugh but fear on the girl's face was
still visible.He held her hand and with the boy on his shoulders
started to walk. The rift between war and peace became two conflicting
values in his head. When the sun came just over their head they sat in
the shade of a tree. He saw what hunger meant for children. The two of
them devoured the contents of the tinned food he opened for them. He
felt something breaking in his heart.

He washed the hands and mouths of the children with water left in his
flask.The boy was pulling his sister's skirt while asking the
paracuter to put him back on his shoulders, and he did so without a
second thought.The children's aloofness and distance to war occupied
his mind.

He saw Satir Recep from a far.He was taking some civilians somewhere
on foot.The girl let hold of his hand and the boy slided down his
shoulders and began running towards the group Satir was leading,
shouting "mama mama".It was a source of joy for the woman to find
her children she feared to have lost in the middle of the war.The war
all of a sudden was filled with happiness for the woman.Mother and
children embraced and the sullen faces were lit with joy.She still
carried in her heart the pain of losing her children.

The sun slowly continued its journey towards the horizon.Turkish
Cypriot fighters began emerging into open from the under cover of the
trees. The woman who kept silent till then implored to the
parachuter,"I beg you, please do not give us to these men." Then
pointing her children she said, "if not at least keep my children
with you." She now wanted at all cost her children to survive.

He and Satir left the prisoners and started walking again.He turned
back and looked at the children clinging to their mother's skirt. The
parachuter slowly disappeared still feeling the warmth of the little
boy on his shoulders.From time to time his eyes glided to his hands but
the trembling hands of the two children were not there any more.The
young parachuter did not remember how far he walked. Time was blirred
in his mind. He might have walked days weeks or even years.The only
thing clear was a voice still resounding in his ears.It was the sound
of a machinegun spreading from the horizon..."

A RECOUNT OF THE PAST

To erase all that happened in the past causes distortion of history.
What is important is to continue questioning and studying all relevant
situations within accepted principles.Actually any research without a
political approach will be impossible to accept. If arguments and
discussions are based on human rights within a unit directed to form
the basis of intercommunal peace and democracy then attempts to settle
differences will win meaning.The aim of such a communal settlement of
differences in reality is reconciliation with the past.Our purpose
should not be to punish those who collaborated in atrocities. Both
communities should work to establish tolerance and peace and to learn
from common mistakes in order to stop their recurrence.We should not
forget this;peace can only be accomplished not by disregarding mistakes
or belittling what we inherited from the past but accepting boldly its
responsibility .Any other approach will cause continuation of
inconsistency we are now confronting.

Post by serhan
So your 600 Greek Cypriot soldiers held back the mighty Turkish army in
Kyrenia and also managed to create mass graves at the same time or
these murderers were the so called civilian Greek Cypriots. Was it not
the Greek soldiers from Greece who tried to topple makarios before the
Turkish soldiers came to the island? Perhaps they were civilian too.
GREEK CYPRIOT SOLDIER CONFESSES TO SANDALLAR AND MURATAGA MASS MURDERS
Haravgi of July 21, 1998 reported that, the mass murder of villagers
from Sandallar and Murataga by Greek Cypriot soldiers in 1974 has for
the first time been admitted by a Greek Cypriot soldier who fought
during the 1974 Turkish intervention.
The Greek Cypriot soldier Nikos Geneia's recollection of events in
July 1974, under the title "The Coup File - The Coup Through The Eyes
of a Greek Cypriot Reserve Officer" states that, as the Greek Cypriot
forces retreated before the advancing Turkish troops, what he saw at
Sandallar and Murataga was so horrible that he said he would never
forget it as long as he lived.
Geneia continued by saying that, EOKA B terrorists were digging mass
graves with bulldozers and burying the innocent elderly Turkish Cypriot
women and children who were brutally murdered, and how one of the EOKA
B terrorists later bragged to the passing soldiers, "we have done our
duty."
Another confession from a Greek Cypriot that could not live with
the burden of the atrocities committed by the Greeks in Cyprus.
Unfortunately nothing will change, despite of all the confessions, as
in the case of the missing in Cyprus, the lies of the Greek side will
continue and certain British MPs and EU politicians will continue to
support these liars.

[Panta Rhei]

Another episode in Mark Rivers', the hapless Turkish spammer's, life:

Mark Rivers Visits Libraries!

Librarians baffled by urine!

Librarians in the US have had to admit they are baffled by the case of the
urine-stained library books.

Hundreds of books at two libraries, just 13 miles apart in Cleveland, have
had to be thrown out.

Linda Yanko, manager of Geauga West Library, told the Plain Dealer: "I
can't even believe we're discussing something like this. It's appalling
and disgusting."

She said librarians had been finding new cases or urine-related vandalism
about once a month with the recent case coming just this week.

The problems at Aurora Memorial Library began more than two years ago, when
Mark Rivers immigrated from Turkey. Damaged books have been found
sporadically ever since.