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Tue, 06 Jun 2006
Placing a bomb under an Afrika columnist's car.
A pissing contest has been going on in north Cyprus. Afrika newspaper, rightly so, has complained about what has happened and how, just like all the other cases of political bombings in north Cyprus, the latest event did not receive enough attention from the authorities (including the Turkish military/embassy/government). How it is being swept under the rug etc etc. It has become a pissing contest though. Pseudo-progressive (hey, I can use that silly term too!) columnists, associations tried to make excuses to diminish the importance of the event. Others who are pseudo-nationalist (there we go again with that term, heh heh!) turned on their usual "they must have planted the bomb themselves" rhetoric. During that time, ofcourse, Afrika forgotten the initial issue which was about freedom of press, basic human rights and concern for one's life simply for speaking out and picked up one more of its "coffe-shop debates" and begun attempting to start a fight. I am pasting the latest installment in the attachment as it was translated by RoC PIO. As usual, their translation is bordering absurdity if not utterly absurd.
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RoC on the same story.
Read my previous post and compare. It is a common manevour to say that "it is a sensitive issue, therefore ....", those people are sensitive precisely because those in power did *not* take necessary action!
GOVERNMENT MISSING ISSUE
The Cypriot Government has every good political will to fully investigate and bring an end to the humanitarian issue of the missing persons, Government Spokesman George Lillikas has said.
Replying to a question as regards statements by the Turkish Cypriot side that the remains of four Turkish Cypriot missing persons since 1963 64 intercommunal clashes have been located at a tourist resort in the government control areas of the island, the spokesman said that ``this is not an issue to doubt or to discuss if the remains belong to four people or not because this is something to be found from the DNA examinations that will be conducted.
He noted that the position of the Government is that both sides must make every effort with the best possible will to investigate all these cases of the missing and stressed that this is a clear humanitarian issue.
Since there is a certain work being done outside the political sphere we consider that it is of utmost importance to encourage and provide fully our services and assistance, instead of moving to a discussion that could cause misunderstandings, he added.
Replying to another question he noted that the issue of the missing persons is an extremely sensitive one, and that every time there is a story in the news the relatives of the missing feel more pain.
Therefore, he concluded, it is better to give to the relatives information that have to do with their specific case instead of generally creating high expectations.
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Remains of more missing Cypriots found?
The shameful history of Cyprus still continues. It really should not have taken ~40 years to locate the remains of missing person's. Both sides have been dragging their feet. Playing the blame game. Turkish Cypriot side has been the guilty party specially since it was hiding behind Turkey's military occupation in north. But this, unfortunately, does not rid RoC from its share of the blame. A humanitarian issue should have been handled as such instead of turning it into a pissing-contest. See attached article.
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