Paphos Life

Devil wrote: ↑Sat Sep 30, 2017 7:11 pm

Royal wrote: ↑Sat Sep 30, 2017 6:32 pm

He has named the restaurant as 'The Cabin Beach' in Lapta. Do you or anyone else know without question (or strictly as a fact, as WHL has asserted) that this particular property was stolen from a GC?

Practically, the whole of Lapithos was Greek-Cypriot before 1974, although there was Turkish rule in the Ottoman period, but the land was ceded in 1878, with the expansion of the community inland. It had 6 Greek Orthodox parishes, each with its own priest. There were a few Turkish-Cypriots subjugated by the Greek Cypriots; it is unlikely they were landowners. I cannot be more than 99% sure that the restaurant was on stolen Greek-Cypriot property, but the whole village was essentially Greek-Cypriot.

1974:

The piratical invading warships moored off Kerynia, opposite from Lapithos. They murdered, raped, took prisoners and displaced the Lapithiotes all over Cyprus. Since then the bleeding soil of Lapithos has not bloomed any scenting lemon blossom … Ninety-one murdered and missing Lapithiotes are begging for vindication. The blood of the deceased makes the soil moan. The voices of the murdered and missing persons will not let anyone live in peace on the Land of Lapithos unless the rightful owners of this land are allowed back. Unless Justice and Freedom prevails.

http://www.lapithos.org.cy/default.aspx?articleID=2857