“the two so-called motherlands in fact invaded both” –Christofias’ denial
>> of
>> Turkey’s crimes at the Brookings Institution, September 27, 2010
>> Washington
>> DC USA
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> As George Santayana famously said, “Those who cannot remember the past
>> are
>> condemned to repeat it.” For the Greek people, this means repeating
>> Catastrophe. Therefore, if you are a member of the Greek community, which
>> has been subjected to genocidal attacks for over 600 years, the rational
>> thing is to expect another such attack and prepare for it, the better to
>> mount an effective self-defense and, ideally, to prevent the next mass
>> killing altogether. You should study the past and remember it, so that
>> you
>> can recognize the signs that herald a new genocide and identify them when
>> they recur.
>>
>>
>>
>> An example of what I mean is that most Greek-Americans are unable to
>> recognize the signs indicating that their own leaders are taking them
>> down
>> the path to destruction, just as Greek leaders did the same prior to and
>> during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974. Don't misunderstand me: it
>> was the Turks who were killing the Greek-Cypriots, and this was obviously
>> not the fault of the Greek people or of its leaders. But equally obvious,
>> the Greek leadership prior to and during the Turkish invasion of 1974 had
>> an
>> obligation to defend the Greek people of Cyprus and it must be held
>> accountable for how it reacted before the threat of the Greek-Cypriot
>> people’s
>> killing and uprooting from half of the island.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> However, to re-write history entirely and falsely claim that Greece or
>> ‘the
>> motherland’ of Cyprus (meaning Greece) invaded Cyprus in 1974 is not
>> merely
>> engaging in false historical revisionism, even revisionism could claim to
>> point to a modicum of fact to supports its thesis, however skewed. To
>> claim
>> that Greece, ‘the motherland’, or collectively the Greek people, invaded
>> Cyprus is to engage in ‘negationism’ –the outright denial of historic
>> crimes. Same famous examples include Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
>> who denied Nazi crimes inflicted on the Jews of Europe by staging a
>> Holocaust Denial conference in Tehran in December 2006, and the President
>> of
>> the Republic of Cyprus Demetris Christofias in September 27, 2010, who
>> denied Turkish crimes inflicted on the Greeks of Cyprus by his acrid “two
>> so-called motherlands in fact invaded both” speech at the Brookings
>> Institution in Washington DC.
>>
>>
>>
>> The atrocities inflicted on the Greek-Cypriots in 1974 by the
>> Turkish-military-invasion, with the aid of Turkish ‘Cypriots’ were
>> inflicted
>> against mostly the elderly, women, children and even the disabled. It was
>> a
>> full scale land-sea-air invasion re-enforced with the illegal use of
>> American-made fighter Jets and Bell helicopters similar to those used in
>> Viet-Nam, (prior to that in August 1964 Turkish Air Force bombarded
>> Tylleria
>> with Napalm bombs dropped on Greek-Cypriot civilians with 35 or so dead
>> and
>> over 300 injured some with scars to this very day on their bodies) Turkey
>> remains the last country to have used this on people after Vietnam.
>>
>>
>>
>> Crimes against women were also denied, the rapes of 800 Greek-Cypriot
>> women
>> of all ages, the targeting of women showed the genocidal intent of
>> Turkey.
>> As such, in no way, can the Turkish invasion be ‘equated’ to whatever
>> (real
>> or imaginary) involvement the Greek government or its government leaders
>> had
>> in Cyprus—living testament is the 200,000 Greek-Cypriot refugees who
>> since
>> July 20, 1974 are denied their inalienable rights to their own homeland
>> by
>> the brute force of 43,000 Turkish troops and over 160, 000 illegal
>> Turkish
>> settlers.
>>
>> of
>> Turkey’s crimes at the Brookings Institution, September 27, 2010
>> Washington
>> DC USA
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> As George Santayana famously said, “Those who cannot remember the past
>> are
>> condemned to repeat it.” For the Greek people, this means repeating
>> Catastrophe. Therefore, if you are a member of the Greek community, which
>> has been subjected to genocidal attacks for over 600 years, the rational
>> thing is to expect another such attack and prepare for it, the better to
>> mount an effective self-defense and, ideally, to prevent the next mass
>> killing altogether. You should study the past and remember it, so that
>> you
>> can recognize the signs that herald a new genocide and identify them when
>> they recur.
>>
>>
>>
>> An example of what I mean is that most Greek-Americans are unable to
>> recognize the signs indicating that their own leaders are taking them
>> down
>> the path to destruction, just as Greek leaders did the same prior to and
>> during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974. Don't misunderstand me: it
>> was the Turks who were killing the Greek-Cypriots, and this was obviously
>> not the fault of the Greek people or of its leaders. But equally obvious,
>> the Greek leadership prior to and during the Turkish invasion of 1974 had
>> an
>> obligation to defend the Greek people of Cyprus and it must be held
>> accountable for how it reacted before the threat of the Greek-Cypriot
>> people’s
>> killing and uprooting from half of the island.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> However, to re-write history entirely and falsely claim that Greece or
>> ‘the
>> motherland’ of Cyprus (meaning Greece) invaded Cyprus in 1974 is not
>> merely
>> engaging in false historical revisionism, even revisionism could claim to
>> point to a modicum of fact to supports its thesis, however skewed. To
>> claim
>> that Greece, ‘the motherland’, or collectively the Greek people, invaded
>> Cyprus is to engage in ‘negationism’ –the outright denial of historic
>> crimes. Same famous examples include Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
>> who denied Nazi crimes inflicted on the Jews of Europe by staging a
>> Holocaust Denial conference in Tehran in December 2006, and the President
>> of
>> the Republic of Cyprus Demetris Christofias in September 27, 2010, who
>> denied Turkish crimes inflicted on the Greeks of Cyprus by his acrid “two
>> so-called motherlands in fact invaded both” speech at the Brookings
>> Institution in Washington DC.
>>
>>
>>
>> The atrocities inflicted on the Greek-Cypriots in 1974 by the
>> Turkish-military-invasion, with the aid of Turkish ‘Cypriots’ were
>> inflicted
>> against mostly the elderly, women, children and even the disabled. It was
>> a
>> full scale land-sea-air invasion re-enforced with the illegal use of
>> American-made fighter Jets and Bell helicopters similar to those used in
>> Viet-Nam, (prior to that in August 1964 Turkish Air Force bombarded
>> Tylleria
>> with Napalm bombs dropped on Greek-Cypriot civilians with 35 or so dead
>> and
>> over 300 injured some with scars to this very day on their bodies) Turkey
>> remains the last country to have used this on people after Vietnam.
>>
>>
>>
>> Crimes against women were also denied, the rapes of 800 Greek-Cypriot
>> women
>> of all ages, the targeting of women showed the genocidal intent of
>> Turkey.
>> As such, in no way, can the Turkish invasion be ‘equated’ to whatever
>> (real
>> or imaginary) involvement the Greek government or its government leaders
>> had
>> in Cyprus—living testament is the 200,000 Greek-Cypriot refugees who
>> since
>> July 20, 1974 are denied their inalienable rights to their own homeland
>> by
>> the brute force of 43,000 Turkish troops and over 160, 000 illegal
>> Turkish
>> settlers.
>>
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