Confessions of former EOKA member:

Littlenige



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Message Posted:
09/07/2008 16:10

Turkish Cypriots raped, killed





67-year-old Andreas Dimitriu says men in a Turkish Cypriot village were killed and women were raped by Greek Cypriot soldiers and members of his underground group three decades ago



A former member of a Greek Cypriot underground group defending the unification of the island with Greece has confessed in remarks to the media that the group, along with Greek Cypriot soldiers, had raped women and killed men of a Turkish Cypriot village during a campaign of attacks on the Turkish population of Cyprus three decades ago.



The group, the National Organization of Cypriot Fighters (EOKA), launched attacks on Turkish Cypriots during the 1960s and early 1970s in a violent campaign aimed at enosis, or unification of Cyprus with Greece. Andreas Dimitriu, a 67 year-old Greek Cypriot who was a member of EOKA-B, an offshoot of EOKA, during the period of ethnic violence on the island, confessed in a media interview that he had helped to gather men of the Turkish Cypriot village of Tohni (Taşkent) in a coffee house.



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The men were later taken away by EOKA-B members entering the village, and all but one male Turkish Cypriot had been killed, Dimitriu told Greek Cypriot newspaper Alithia on Sunday.



He, however, said that he was unaware that the Turkish Cypriot men were to be killed and that he learned their fate a few days afterward.



Turkish Cypriot women of the village were then raped by Greek Cypriot soldiers seeking revenge on Turkish Cypriots, he also said.



“Such things were happening at that time. What did we do that was different from what was going on all over Cyprus?” he asked.



The confessions came after a Turkish Cypriot woman who had survived the Greek Cypriot violence in Taşkent village identified Dimitriu during an earlier interview with the same newspaper as the person who had taken away her father.



Her father was among those killed by EOKA-B members in the village.



Dimitriu said he had thought the men rounded up in the village's coffee house would be held captive in order to get some Greek Cypriots held by Turkish Cypriots released and said that he had no idea that these men were to be killed.



“We were given the instruction to round up all the men capable of fighting to be used for the exchange of Greek Cypriot captives. We did whatever we did together with the legal forces of the state,” Dimitriu said.





Source : http://www.cyprus-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=18750&sid=8c9f5b4b4e5cd493e4bef13dffad01c4

brian24001


Joined: 23/03/2008
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Message Posted:
09/07/2008 17:17

Isn't that a little similar to what was reported from the former Yugoslavia?