Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 7:03 pm
Ethnic cleansing is an act of cleansing a place of a particular ethnicity. That is what you are promoting now Zan. You are promoting to cleanse the north of Cyprus of an ethnicity that has been present there for 3,500 years.
What happend in the past is exactly THAT, the past...right now though, the north of Cyprus is being ethnically cleansed of its indegenous peoples.
WE could also argue that GC were the subject of ethnic cleansing back in the sixties, from TC groups like the TMT, who would also create violance in order to prove their ideology of partition. We have both suffered. REAL ethnic cleansing did not occur in Cyprus until 1974, as both communities roughly lost the same amount of lives during the previous decade. The inter-communal violance is NOT 'ethnic cleansing' and you are only banding that term about because it has paints a particular picture which makes you comfertable about promting the islands division.
Right now though, it is people like you and the nationalist Turkish ideology who is promoting ethnic cleansing.
What happend in the past is exactly THAT, the past...right now though, the north of Cyprus is being ethnically cleansed of its indegenous peoples.
WE could also argue that GC were the subject of ethnic cleansing back in the sixties, from TC groups like the TMT, who would also create violance in order to prove their ideology of partition. We have both suffered. REAL ethnic cleansing did not occur in Cyprus until 1974, as both communities roughly lost the same amount of lives during the previous decade. The inter-communal violance is NOT 'ethnic cleansing' and you are only banding that term about because it has paints a particular picture which makes you comfertable about promting the islands division.
Right now though, it is people like you and the nationalist Turkish ideology who is promoting ethnic cleansing.