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This is part of Svgul Uludag's article in Alithia newspaper:

With arrogance, the Turkish Cypriot member of the Missing Persons Committee blames the Greek Cypriot member of `intransigence`!… How dare they want the bones back! The famous Missing Persons Committee, working since 1981 has not yet `discovered` the bones so well-hidden…
An architect friend visits me to tell me what he knows:
`Why couldn’t INFORCE find anything?` I ask him…
`But don’t you know? The bones are there! But they are digging the wrong place!`
`Why?`
`Because the bones are under a military hospital, this is what I heard…`
`The hospital is also there?`
`Yes! In the same area! But they are digging for nothing!`
`How do you know this?`
`Because people remember when the hospital was being built that it was built over the bones…`
INFORCE has not bothered to contact the civil society. They are just taking their money and `doing their job` like civil servants.
`So where shall we dig?`
`Ah! Here… Only here…`
`Fine, let’s do it!`
They do not issue a statement or ask for information… Even before they pack and go, they don’t. Why should they? They got paid, right? And money is more important than actually finding the bones. They are in the same power game: Their job was to dig and didn’t they dig? Of course they did. If they were digging the wrong place, this wasn’t the fault of INFORCE was it?
Another young man in his 30s wants to meet me with a woman my age to talk about Yialoussa and Komikebir…
`We are developing a project for making our area more beautiful… But we don’t know if the Turkish side will decide to give back the bones or not… We are waiting to see… Because our project will be built over the bones of about 100 Greek Cypriots missing from the Karpaz area we think… From Yialloussa, Komikebir and other villages… They are buried in our project area… So we are waiting what the officials will do…`
People call AFRIKA newspaper and speak, provided that their names are not disclosed… One of them tells the newspaper that in the middle of Nicosia, behind the Halkin Sesi newspaper - which is known as `Tekke Bahchesi` - there is a mass grave of Greek Cypriots. That during the war, truck loads of dead bodies were brought to be buried there and they separated the Greek Cypriots from Turkish Cypriots and were ordered to bury them in a well… Now there is a car park there and underneath lays this mass grave…
Others also speak to talk about Assia, Sinda and other places where they know – because they have witnessed the burial – where Greek Cypriot missing are buried… Again provided their names are not disclosed… Everyone knows something, has witnessed something, has heard something. But there is no political will to resolve the issue and on the contrary they would be punished if they speak up openly, with their names. So people whisper these over the phone or at meetings arranged secretly because they are afraid but what they know, they want to say and are trying to find a way to say it, without putting their lives and the lives of their loved ones in danger…
If the UN or INFORCE were really sincere about the whole thing, they would issue a statement and ask for information from the people. Instead of `digging blindly` why not call on the people to say what they know?
If the UN was really sincere about solving the issue it would issue a statement and say `Tell us what you know! And we would guarantee your safety, your life! Nothing will happen to you if you speak!`
But no! Who can `guarantee` the safety of people if they decide to speak? All the military-beurocratic structures of the regime built over the last 50 years to `control` the Turkish Cypriot community are there. Nothing has been dismantled. Everything works well even though there are sometimes some pressure by the community for more freedom, more democracy, more transparency… When it is about to get out of control, the regime does something (like the opening of the checkpoints in 2003) to ease the heat of the crowds. But the puppet show in the north continues for everyone to watch and in the whole philosophy of this show is `to pretend`… To pretend that you are doing something, to pretend that it is always `the enemy who is intransigent`, to pretend that you have `democracy` and `freedom`… We even have elections to prove that we have `democracy`, right?
As if by irony, as INFORCE packs up to leave, an antique grave is discovered in the Karpaz area… A 3 thousand year old grave with three persons buried in it… And lots of antiquities from the Geometric Times… Vases, jars for the wine, glasses, plates… They were digging for water pipes and there! The grave was safe and sound after 3 thousand years, carved out of stone… The 3 thousand year old bones came to the light, without names, without identity even if they did not ask for it. The regime can allow the `discovery` of 3 thousand year old graves but bones buried 30 years ago do not have `permission` to come to the surface… Perhaps their `discovery` will not be done by INFORCE but by the families of the missing persons from both sides if they decide to work together… That is, if they dare to bring down the game of `pretense`…

(*) Article published in the ALITHIA newspaper on the 16th of January, 2005.

Read everything you can by this author, it is worth reading.

[denizaksulu]

This is part of Svgul Uludag's article in Alithia newspaper:

With arrogance, the Turkish Cypriot member of the Missing Persons Committee blames the Greek Cypriot member of `intransigence`!… How dare they want the bones back! The famous Missing Persons Committee, working since 1981 has not yet `discovered` the bones so well-hidden…
An architect friend visits me to tell me what he knows:
`Why couldn’t INFORCE find anything?` I ask him…
`But don’t you know? The bones are there! But they are digging the wrong place!`
`Why?`
`Because the bones are under a military hospital, this is what I heard…`
`The hospital is also there?`
`Yes! In the same area! But they are digging for nothing!`
`How do you know this?`
`Because people remember when the hospital was being built that it was built over the bones…`
INFORCE has not bothered to contact the civil society. They are just taking their money and `doing their job` like civil servants.
`So where shall we dig?`
`Ah! Here… Only here…`
`Fine, let’s do it!`
They do not issue a statement or ask for information… Even before they pack and go, they don’t. Why should they? They got paid, right? And money is more important than actually finding the bones. They are in the same power game: Their job was to dig and didn’t they dig? Of course they did. If they were digging the wrong place, this wasn’t the fault of INFORCE was it?
Another young man in his 30s wants to meet me with a woman my age to talk about Yialoussa and Komikebir…
`We are developing a project for making our area more beautiful… But we don’t know if the Turkish side will decide to give back the bones or not… We are waiting to see… Because our project will be built over the bones of about 100 Greek Cypriots missing from the Karpaz area we think… From Yialloussa, Komikebir and other villages… They are buried in our project area… So we are waiting what the officials will do…`
People call AFRIKA newspaper and speak, provided that their names are not disclosed… One of them tells the newspaper that in the middle of Nicosia, behind the Halkin Sesi newspaper - which is known as `Tekke Bahchesi` - there is a mass grave of Greek Cypriots. That during the war, truck loads of dead bodies were brought to be buried there and they separated the Greek Cypriots from Turkish Cypriots and were ordered to bury them in a well… Now there is a car park there and underneath lays this mass grave…
Others also speak to talk about Assia, Sinda and other places where they know – because they have witnessed the burial – where Greek Cypriot missing are buried… Again provided their names are not disclosed… Everyone knows something, has witnessed something, has heard something. But there is no political will to resolve the issue and on the contrary they would be punished if they speak up openly, with their names. So people whisper these over the phone or at meetings arranged secretly because they are afraid but what they know, they want to say and are trying to find a way to say it, without putting their lives and the lives of their loved ones in danger…
If the UN or INFORCE were really sincere about the whole thing, they would issue a statement and ask for information from the people. Instead of `digging blindly` why not call on the people to say what they know?
If the UN was really sincere about solving the issue it would issue a statement and say `Tell us what you know! And we would guarantee your safety, your life! Nothing will happen to you if you speak!`
But no! Who can `guarantee` the safety of people if they decide to speak? All the military-beurocratic structures of the regime built over the last 50 years to `control` the Turkish Cypriot community are there. Nothing has been dismantled. Everything works well even though there are sometimes some pressure by the community for more freedom, more democracy, more transparency… When it is about to get out of control, the regime does something (like the opening of the checkpoints in 2003) to ease the heat of the crowds. But the puppet show in the north continues for everyone to watch and in the whole philosophy of this show is `to pretend`… To pretend that you are doing something, to pretend that it is always `the enemy who is intransigent`, to pretend that you have `democracy` and `freedom`… We even have elections to prove that we have `democracy`, right?
As if by irony, as INFORCE packs up to leave, an antique grave is discovered in the Karpaz area… A 3 thousand year old grave with three persons buried in it… And lots of antiquities from the Geometric Times… Vases, jars for the wine, glasses, plates… They were digging for water pipes and there! The grave was safe and sound after 3 thousand years, carved out of stone… The 3 thousand year old bones came to the light, without names, without identity even if they did not ask for it. The regime can allow the `discovery` of 3 thousand year old graves but bones buried 30 years ago do not have `permission` to come to the surface… Perhaps their `discovery` will not be done by INFORCE but by the families of the missing persons from both sides if they decide to work together… That is, if they dare to bring down the game of `pretense`…

(*) Article published in the ALITHIA newspaper on the 16th of January, 2005.

Read everything you can by this author, it is worth reading.

Shocking!

[halil]

most of the forum members were wondering about missing perones in Cyprus.Here is the another article from writer Sevgul Uludag.

Yeraltı Notları, 28 Eylül 2006

Sevgül Uludağ



Missing since June 1964, Major Macey’s case is still a `mystery`…Buried in Konedra? (*)


Sevgul Uludag


Major Ted Macey, a professional English soldier called `The Lone Wolf` was barely 46 years old when he went `missing` in Cyprus.

He had served in Greece during the Second World War, learning there to speak very good Turkish and Greek. He could also speak Italian and Spanish. After the Second World War, between 1947-1950 he had served as a liason between the Greek army and the British based in Selonica (Selanik). He had some medals from that time given by the Greek government. In 1956, Macey had become a major…

In 1964, he was serving in Cyprus as a liason between the United Nations and Dr. Fazil Küçük, the Vice-President of the Republic of Cyprus. There was another person serving as liason between Archbishop Makarios, the President of the Republic and the UN.

On the 11th of May, 1964, after the killing of the son of Pantelis, who was the chief of police of Famagusta, many Turkish Cypriots went missing… He had been given the task to search for the Turkish Cypriot missing – around 32 on that day but it would go up to around 70-80 in the following days – who were taken as prisoners and were thought that they were kept alive.

Many people liked Major Macey and many Turkish Cypriots remember him as someone who helped them in difficult times…

In February 1964, the two sides had taken some hostages… The small village called Gaziveran, next to Xero (Gemikonagi) had taken 75 Greek Cypriot hostages. The UN negotiated so that the hostages would be freed by both sides. General Young, in charge of the UNFICYP at the time, convinced Dr. Küçük to let the hostages go and convinced the Greek Cypriots to do the same. But there was a problem: There was no contact between Nicosia and Gaziveran. Ted Macey, volunteered to go on a mission to Gaziveran and convince them to let the hostages go. He would do that in the name of Dr. Küçük. This was a dangerous mission but he managed to have the hostages exchanged…

This was not the only case where Macey served on `dangerous missions`. He had served again in March 1964, during another hostage crisis in Paphos. Ulus Irkad, barely a child at the time, remembers him very well…

`I saw Major Macey on the 8th of March 1964… On the 7th of March, 1964 – it was a Saturday – hundreds of Greek Cypriots were taken as prisoners and brought to the Turkish section of Paphos called Mutallo. On that same day 7 Greek Cypriots were killed in the market. It smelled of a provocation, the whole event. Perhaps the main aim was to force Turkey to intervene, despite the UN Security Council decision of 4th of March, 1964…`

Greek Cypriots had retaliated, killing 14 Turkish Cypriot youngsters and fighting pushed Turkish Cypriots to their enclaves.

`I remember seeing Major Macey on the 8th of March 1964, in front of the coffee shop of Yusuf Dayi in Mutallo. He was in charge of the operation of freeing the Greek Cypriot hostages. I was barely 7 years old at the time. Macey was not only taking photos of the hostages but our photos as well. My father Huseyin Irkad, who was the only English teacher in the area was also there. Macey was speaking to us both in Turkish and English. I know that he knew my father from before since my father would serve as translator.

Later I remember Macey in our house – he was coming for lunch and he really liked the Cypriot style meat and potatoes in the oven. On one of those visits, he had brought us a hockey stick as a gift… At the time we did not know what hockey was but kept this gift until 1974… Macey liked kids and distributed sweets and chocolates to us. Maybe because of this, children of the area would call out `Hello, chocolate!` to all the British soldiers they saw afterwards!

I remember Macey helping to serve food rations to Paphos… When we heard that he was killed, it was like losing a member of our own family…`

Others from Famagusta area also remember Macey, helping to serve food rations to the walled city, during those days of conflict.

But such help brought about the reaction of the extreme nationalists… Some Greek Cypriot nationalist newspapers began a campaign against him, claiming that he was `spying` for Turkish Cypriots.

Major Ted Macey went to Galatya (Mehmetchik) looking for the missing Turkish Cypriots on the 7th of June 1964. He was there with his chauffeur Platt. He left the village at 15.15 and was never seen again…

Vartan Malyan, an Armenian Cypriot, was working at Dhkelia at the time… When one of his Turkish Cypriot friends went missing, he began searching for him. Malyan, a human rights activist for the last five decades, was also looking for Macey… He found a Greek Cypriot, who might have been involved in such acts. The guy said `If you give me 3 thousand pounds, I will bring you the uniform of Macey and will show you where he is buried…`

Malyan went back to the bases and informed the British officials of this. That there might be a lead to this. The British refused to give any money. Malyan thinks that this was a lost opportunity. The guy later showed him a burial site – a well – on the old Nicosia-Limassol road, claimed that this was a place where they had buried some Turkish Cypriots. `This guy who knew something about the Turkish Cypriot missing and about Macey, later moved to Australia…`

I wrote all of this in the newspaper Yeniduzen, publishing a detailed interview with Vartan Malyan, as well as memories of Ulus Irkad, about Major Macey… I found various websites with information about Macey and published the information in the paper in my long series called `Cyprus: The Untold Stories`… But there was nothing new coming…

Just as I was losing hope, one night, during a wedding, one of my cousins came up to me:

`I read what you wrote about Macey… Don’t you know that he is buried in Konedra?`

`What?!…`

`Don’t you know he was shot in the coffee shop in Konedra that day and he was buried on the side of the road going from Konedra to Tirmen?`

`What are you talking about?`

`But my dear cousin, everyone knows this, except you!`

`Tell me! Tell me!`

`They were sitting in the coffee shop. Major Macey was also there… There were around 20 people in the coffee shop. A shooting team of the Turkish Cypriot underground came and shot him in front of everyone. They buried him just outside Konedra, on the road to Tirmen… They also buried his car…`

`But why?`

`In those times they considered him a `spy`!`

`But some Greek Cypriots also considered him a `spy`!`

Members of three families from Konedra (Gonendere), a small village in the Messaoria, was involved in the killing and some of them are not alive today… When you speak to people from Konedra, they confirm that this incident was true but they are still afraid to speak up since some of the killers from the shooting team of the underground organization, as well as those who gave the order to kill are still alive today… Some

I call on the Cyprus Missing Persons Committee to make enquiries about what happened in Konedra and find out where Major Macey is buried… As far as I know from the websites created by Macey’s friends, his family was not given back his bones… After 42 years since the time Ted Macey is missing, doesn’t this country owe his family at least his bones, to be taken back to England and buried properly? Don’t we all need to know, what actually happened in the past?…


(*) Article published in the weekly CYPRUS TODAY on the 23rd of September, 2006


copyleft (c) 2001-05 hamamboculeri.org

[iceman]

most of the forum members were wondering about missing perones in Cyprus.Here is the another article from writer Sevgul Uludag.

Yeraltı Notları, 28 Eylül 2006

Sevgül Uludağ



Missing since June 1964, Major Macey’s case is still a `mystery`…Buried in Konedra? (*)


Sevgul Uludag


Major Ted Macey, a professional English soldier called `The Lone Wolf` was barely 46 years old when he went `missing` in Cyprus.

He had served in Greece during the Second World War, learning there to speak very good Turkish and Greek. He could also speak Italian and Spanish. After the Second World War, between 1947-1950 he had served as a liason between the Greek army and the British based in Selonica (Selanik). He had some medals from that time given by the Greek government. In 1956, Macey had become a major…

In 1964, he was serving in Cyprus as a liason between the United Nations and Dr. Fazil Küçük, the Vice-President of the Republic of Cyprus. There was another person serving as liason between Archbishop Makarios, the President of the Republic and the UN.

On the 11th of May, 1964, after the killing of the son of Pantelis, who was the chief of police of Famagusta, many Turkish Cypriots went missing… He had been given the task to search for the Turkish Cypriot missing – around 32 on that day but it would go up to around 70-80 in the following days – who were taken as prisoners and were thought that they were kept alive.

Many people liked Major Macey and many Turkish Cypriots remember him as someone who helped them in difficult times…

In February 1964, the two sides had taken some hostages… The small village called Gaziveran, next to Xero (Gemikonagi) had taken 75 Greek Cypriot hostages. The UN negotiated so that the hostages would be freed by both sides. General Young, in charge of the UNFICYP at the time, convinced Dr. Küçük to let the hostages go and convinced the Greek Cypriots to do the same. But there was a problem: There was no contact between Nicosia and Gaziveran. Ted Macey, volunteered to go on a mission to Gaziveran and convince them to let the hostages go. He would do that in the name of Dr. Küçük. This was a dangerous mission but he managed to have the hostages exchanged…

This was not the only case where Macey served on `dangerous missions`. He had served again in March 1964, during another hostage crisis in Paphos. Ulus Irkad, barely a child at the time, remembers him very well…

`I saw Major Macey on the 8th of March 1964… On the 7th of March, 1964 – it was a Saturday – hundreds of Greek Cypriots were taken as prisoners and brought to the Turkish section of Paphos called Mutallo. On that same day 7 Greek Cypriots were killed in the market. It smelled of a provocation, the whole event. Perhaps the main aim was to force Turkey to intervene, despite the UN Security Council decision of 4th of March, 1964…`

Greek Cypriots had retaliated, killing 14 Turkish Cypriot youngsters and fighting pushed Turkish Cypriots to their enclaves.

`I remember seeing Major Macey on the 8th of March 1964, in front of the coffee shop of Yusuf Dayi in Mutallo. He was in charge of the operation of freeing the Greek Cypriot hostages. I was barely 7 years old at the time. Macey was not only taking photos of the hostages but our photos as well. My father Huseyin Irkad, who was the only English teacher in the area was also there. Macey was speaking to us both in Turkish and English. I know that he knew my father from before since my father would serve as translator.

Later I remember Macey in our house – he was coming for lunch and he really liked the Cypriot style meat and potatoes in the oven. On one of those visits, he had brought us a hockey stick as a gift… At the time we did not know what hockey was but kept this gift until 1974… Macey liked kids and distributed sweets and chocolates to us. Maybe because of this, children of the area would call out `Hello, chocolate!` to all the British soldiers they saw afterwards!

I remember Macey helping to serve food rations to Paphos… When we heard that he was killed, it was like losing a member of our own family…`

Others from Famagusta area also remember Macey, helping to serve food rations to the walled city, during those days of conflict.

But such help brought about the reaction of the extreme nationalists… Some Greek Cypriot nationalist newspapers began a campaign against him, claiming that he was `spying` for Turkish Cypriots.

Major Ted Macey went to Galatya (Mehmetchik) looking for the missing Turkish Cypriots on the 7th of June 1964. He was there with his chauffeur Platt. He left the village at 15.15 and was never seen again…

Vartan Malyan, an Armenian Cypriot, was working at Dhkelia at the time… When one of his Turkish Cypriot friends went missing, he began searching for him. Malyan, a human rights activist for the last five decades, was also looking for Macey… He found a Greek Cypriot, who might have been involved in such acts. The guy said `If you give me 3 thousand pounds, I will bring you the uniform of Macey and will show you where he is buried…`

Malyan went back to the bases and informed the British officials of this. That there might be a lead to this. The British refused to give any money. Malyan thinks that this was a lost opportunity. The guy later showed him a burial site – a well – on the old Nicosia-Limassol road, claimed that this was a place where they had buried some Turkish Cypriots. `This guy who knew something about the Turkish Cypriot missing and about Macey, later moved to Australia…`

I wrote all of this in the newspaper Yeniduzen, publishing a detailed interview with Vartan Malyan, as well as memories of Ulus Irkad, about Major Macey… I found various websites with information about Macey and published the information in the paper in my long series called `Cyprus: The Untold Stories`… But there was nothing new coming…

Just as I was losing hope, one night, during a wedding, one of my cousins came up to me:

`I read what you wrote about Macey… Don’t you know that he is buried in Konedra?`

`What?!…`

`Don’t you know he was shot in the coffee shop in Konedra that day and he was buried on the side of the road going from Konedra to Tirmen?`

`What are you talking about?`

`But my dear cousin, everyone knows this, except you!`

`Tell me! Tell me!`

`They were sitting in the coffee shop. Major Macey was also there… There were around 20 people in the coffee shop. A shooting team of the Turkish Cypriot underground came and shot him in front of everyone. They buried him just outside Konedra, on the road to Tirmen… They also buried his car…`

`But why?`

`In those times they considered him a `spy`!`

`But some Greek Cypriots also considered him a `spy`!`

Members of three families from Konedra (Gonendere), a small village in the Messaoria, was involved in the killing and some of them are not alive today… When you speak to people from Konedra, they confirm that this incident was true but they are still afraid to speak up since some of the killers from the shooting team of the underground organization, as well as those who gave the order to kill are still alive today… Some

I call on the Cyprus Missing Persons Committee to make enquiries about what happened in Konedra and find out where Major Macey is buried… As far as I know from the websites created by Macey’s friends, his family was not given back his bones… After 42 years since the time Ted Macey is missing, doesn’t this country owe his family at least his bones, to be taken back to England and buried properly? Don’t we all need to know, what actually happened in the past?…


(*) Article published in the weekly CYPRUS TODAY on the 23rd of September, 2006


copyleft (c) 2001-05 hamamboculeri.org

This happens to be the case on BOTH sides and is the main reason we have not had any solution on the island for a long time...
Some of these murderers are still alive and in very strong positions on their part of the island...they are untouchable.

[denizaksulu]

most of the forum members were wondering about missing perones in Cyprus.Here is the another article from writer Sevgul Uludag.

Yeraltı Notları, 28 Eylül 2006

Sevgül Uludağ



Missing since June 1964, Major Macey’s case is still a `mystery`…Buried in Konedra? (*)


Sevgul Uludag


Major Ted Macey, a professional English soldier called `The Lone Wolf` was barely 46 years old when he went `missing` in Cyprus.

He had served in Greece during the Second World War, learning there to speak very good Turkish and Greek. He could also speak Italian and Spanish. After the Second World War, between 1947-1950 he had served as a liason between the Greek army and the British based in Selonica (Selanik). He had some medals from that time given by the Greek government. In 1956, Macey had become a major…

In 1964, he was serving in Cyprus as a liason between the United Nations and Dr. Fazil Küçük, the Vice-President of the Republic of Cyprus. There was another person serving as liason between Archbishop Makarios, the President of the Republic and the UN.

On the 11th of May, 1964, after the killing of the son of Pantelis, who was the chief of police of Famagusta, many Turkish Cypriots went missing… He had been given the task to search for the Turkish Cypriot missing – around 32 on that day but it would go up to around 70-80 in the following days – who were taken as prisoners and were thought that they were kept alive.

Many people liked Major Macey and many Turkish Cypriots remember him as someone who helped them in difficult times…

In February 1964, the two sides had taken some hostages… The small village called Gaziveran, next to Xero (Gemikonagi) had taken 75 Greek Cypriot hostages. The UN negotiated so that the hostages would be freed by both sides. General Young, in charge of the UNFICYP at the time, convinced Dr. Küçük to let the hostages go and convinced the Greek Cypriots to do the same. But there was a problem: There was no contact between Nicosia and Gaziveran. Ted Macey, volunteered to go on a mission to Gaziveran and convince them to let the hostages go. He would do that in the name of Dr. Küçük. This was a dangerous mission but he managed to have the hostages exchanged…

This was not the only case where Macey served on `dangerous missions`. He had served again in March 1964, during another hostage crisis in Paphos. Ulus Irkad, barely a child at the time, remembers him very well…

`I saw Major Macey on the 8th of March 1964… On the 7th of March, 1964 – it was a Saturday – hundreds of Greek Cypriots were taken as prisoners and brought to the Turkish section of Paphos called Mutallo. On that same day 7 Greek Cypriots were killed in the market. It smelled of a provocation, the whole event. Perhaps the main aim was to force Turkey to intervene, despite the UN Security Council decision of 4th of March, 1964…`

Greek Cypriots had retaliated, killing 14 Turkish Cypriot youngsters and fighting pushed Turkish Cypriots to their enclaves.

`I remember seeing Major Macey on the 8th of March 1964, in front of the coffee shop of Yusuf Dayi in Mutallo. He was in charge of the operation of freeing the Greek Cypriot hostages. I was barely 7 years old at the time. Macey was not only taking photos of the hostages but our photos as well. My father Huseyin Irkad, who was the only English teacher in the area was also there. Macey was speaking to us both in Turkish and English. I know that he knew my father from before since my father would serve as translator.

Later I remember Macey in our house – he was coming for lunch and he really liked the Cypriot style meat and potatoes in the oven. On one of those visits, he had brought us a hockey stick as a gift… At the time we did not know what hockey was but kept this gift until 1974… Macey liked kids and distributed sweets and chocolates to us. Maybe because of this, children of the area would call out `Hello, chocolate!` to all the British soldiers they saw afterwards!

I remember Macey helping to serve food rations to Paphos… When we heard that he was killed, it was like losing a member of our own family…`

Others from Famagusta area also remember Macey, helping to serve food rations to the walled city, during those days of conflict.

But such help brought about the reaction of the extreme nationalists… Some Greek Cypriot nationalist newspapers began a campaign against him, claiming that he was `spying` for Turkish Cypriots.

Major Ted Macey went to Galatya (Mehmetchik) looking for the missing Turkish Cypriots on the 7th of June 1964. He was there with his chauffeur Platt. He left the village at 15.15 and was never seen again…

Vartan Malyan, an Armenian Cypriot, was working at Dhkelia at the time… When one of his Turkish Cypriot friends went missing, he began searching for him. Malyan, a human rights activist for the last five decades, was also looking for Macey… He found a Greek Cypriot, who might have been involved in such acts. The guy said `If you give me 3 thousand pounds, I will bring you the uniform of Macey and will show you where he is buried…`

Malyan went back to the bases and informed the British officials of this. That there might be a lead to this. The British refused to give any money. Malyan thinks that this was a lost opportunity. The guy later showed him a burial site – a well – on the old Nicosia-Limassol road, claimed that this was a place where they had buried some Turkish Cypriots. `This guy who knew something about the Turkish Cypriot missing and about Macey, later moved to Australia…`

I wrote all of this in the newspaper Yeniduzen, publishing a detailed interview with Vartan Malyan, as well as memories of Ulus Irkad, about Major Macey… I found various websites with information about Macey and published the information in the paper in my long series called `Cyprus: The Untold Stories`… But there was nothing new coming…

Just as I was losing hope, one night, during a wedding, one of my cousins came up to me:

`I read what you wrote about Macey… Don’t you know that he is buried in Konedra?`

`What?!…`

`Don’t you know he was shot in the coffee shop in Konedra that day and he was buried on the side of the road going from Konedra to Tirmen?`

`What are you talking about?`

`But my dear cousin, everyone knows this, except you!`

`Tell me! Tell me!`

`They were sitting in the coffee shop. Major Macey was also there… There were around 20 people in the coffee shop. A shooting team of the Turkish Cypriot underground came and shot him in front of everyone. They buried him just outside Konedra, on the road to Tirmen… They also buried his car…`

`But why?`

`In those times they considered him a `spy`!`

`But some Greek Cypriots also considered him a `spy`!`

Members of three families from Konedra (Gonendere), a small village in the Messaoria, was involved in the killing and some of them are not alive today… When you speak to people from Konedra, they confirm that this incident was true but they are still afraid to speak up since some of the killers from the shooting team of the underground organization, as well as those who gave the order to kill are still alive today… Some

I call on the Cyprus Missing Persons Committee to make enquiries about what happened in Konedra and find out where Major Macey is buried… As far as I know from the websites created by Macey’s friends, his family was not given back his bones… After 42 years since the time Ted Macey is missing, doesn’t this country owe his family at least his bones, to be taken back to England and buried properly? Don’t we all need to know, what actually happened in the past?…


(*) Article published in the weekly CYPRUS TODAY on the 23rd of September, 2006


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This happens to be the case on BOTH sides and is the main reason we have not had any solution on the island for a long time...
Some of these murderers are still alive and in very strong positions on their part of the island...they are untouchable.

Thats why both leaderships are afraid of any sort of unification. They know the day of judgement awaits them. Cyprus divided and for what.!!To protect the wrong doers.

[T_C]

I bet Papadope is one of them!

[denizaksulu]

[quote="T_C"]I bet Papadope is one of them! [/quote]


No doubt. Even other ex-presidents.