We celebrate kicking them out April the 1st — originally they thought we were joking. But it's a much complex story than left-wing VS right-wing as most anti-British/anti-colonial Cypriot guerilla fighters where extreme right-wing.
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I would send you to the internet if I could but the "facts" out there are a biased re-telling of events (if not out and out lies).
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Thanks a lot for sharing and explaining this. Even more so given the emotional cost you mention.
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You're welcome. It's the least I can do as I, unlike many others sadly, have had a chance to escape the propaganda we were fed as children and teens.
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BTW above I don't mean G/C villages — it was a typo. It's T/C villages, of course.
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This is the organisation that he was a member of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EOKA_B
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@aeryn_thrace's question: the right-wingers wanted to united Cyprus with Greece (aka Enosis) and expunge the Muslim Cypriots (aka T/Cs).
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