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We are all prisoners
of knowledge. To know how Cyprus was betrayed, and to have studied the
record of that betrayal, is to make oneself unhappy and to spoil, perhaps
for ever, one's pleasure for visiting one of the word's most enchanting
islands. Nothing will ever restore the looted treasures, the bereaved
families, the plundered villages and the groves and hillsides scalded with
napalm. Nor will anything mitigate the record of the callous and crude
politicians who regarded Cyprus as something on which to scribble their
inane and conceited designs. But fatalism would be the worst betrayal of
all. The acceptance, the legitimization of what was done - those things must
be repudiated. Such a refusal has a value beyond Cyprus in showing that
acquiescence in injustice is not 'realism'. Once the injustice has been set
down and described, and called by its right name, acquiescence in it becomes
impossible. That is why one writes about Cyprus in sorrow but more - much
more - in anger."
Christopher Hitchens, "Hostage in History: Cyprus", Washington, May 1997.
Below we list a few
examples of the organized,
systematic, and state
sponsored terrorism effort by the Turkish State
to fully destroy and vanish every sign of Greek Orthodox Christianity from
the occupied areas of Cyprus, with a long-term goal to change the ancient
history of Cyprus that will pave the way for total capture of Cyprus in the
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