Hudswell wrote: ↑Wed Nov 21, 2018 9:23 am
It's interesting WHL, you constantly make comments in regard to my "preference" for all things UK and the defence of it, in any circumstances, but you refuse to hear anything detrimental about Cyprus. The EOKA campaign was a murdeous campaign of terror against its own citizens, of both ethnic groups, against families of British Service Personnel and against service personnel. They targetted and murdered women, they attacked children, they intimidated, they used schoolchildren to spread ther propaganda and attack infrastructure. They pitted family against family and for what? Independance...no Cyprus would have got that anyway, for enosis, swopping one colonial rule for another, now that's pathetic. If proven, then I hope justice is done, and any acts of torture are acknowledged and apologised for, but I don't think that will be enough because this is all about the money, nothing more. I am sure the relatives of Mrs Catherine Cutliffe, a forces wife, shot dead and her daughter wounded whilst buying a wedding dress would appriciate an apology from the EOKA "veterans" and the Cypriot Government. Perhaps something you could throw into the conversation when talking to your Cypriot " friends", their token expat.. And you wonder why EOKA terrorists were sometimes treated as they were? I know you are not a great fan of history or facts but you should really get yours straight..that's pathetic.
Yet another Pathetic response from you, you clearly don't read my replies, In every post ive made on the Cyprus problem , I have said that every side in the conflict has Blood on its Hands, they all did Evil things, yes including the British, unlike you , I have an open mind, I call Torture ,,,,Torture, not the laughable ''Robust Questioning'' you like to use... so no moral lectures from you...and you really are clueless when it comes to Cyprus History, you just stated Quote ''
Independance...no Cyprus would have got that anyway,''
You really should learn some History..... For Britain, Cyprus was a Mediterranean stronghold it had not the slightest intention of relinquishing. Indeed, upgrading its strategic role as soon as British garrisons in the Canal Zone were judged insufficiently secure, the High Command in the Middle East was transferred to the island in 1954. A year later, the colonial secretary – now Conservative – told the Commons that possessions like Cyprus could never expect self-determination...said Lennox-Boyd, the colonial secretary,... So carry on Pontificating, like some later day Pathe news reporter.
