New advances in peace scholarship (as in: Himler's advance to Moscow, etc.)

There are now important developments in online conflict resolution and peace scholarship.

Indeed, at the disposal of the discerning conflict resolution scholar there is today an online array of tools, which make the mass production of scholarship on how best to cover up the turkish foreign military occupation of Kypros even more easy. For instance:

http://writing-program.uchicago.edu/toys/randomsentence/write-sentence.htm

In this way, the discerning scholar doesn't have to confine himself solely on bombs and tomahawks, new narratives and airfighters, but he may spice up his text with some jucy academic phrases.

Although long free from shame and from the duty to think, scholarship on Kypros was still restrained by the necessity to be typed. With these new online tools, conflict resolution scholars and scholars of anti-nationalism will now only have to insert a few keywords, then receive the outcome on their screens and copy it from there to their articles.

It did not became possible to reach any refugee associations, from Kypros or elsewhere, for comments. But that shouldn't be a problem, because refugees are neither articles or books. No bibliography ever contains people, their emotions and their lives.

We own it to this website for alerting us to these latest developments in online conflict resolution and peace scholarship.

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No, NO!! No, nationalists! Call them..., "Dementia Cypria"!!

Dr. Zinon Stavrinidis has an article on the internet, with title:

Dementia Cypria: On the social psychological environment of the intercommunal negotiations, 25 July 2009
http://www.inter-security-forum.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=77:dementia-cypria-on-the-social-psychological-environment-of-the-intercommunal-negotiations&catid=51:regional-security&Itemid=168

Well, then, if Mr. Stavrinidis finds it allright and appropriate to misrepresent the reality of the Turkish military occupation, we may as well judge it worthwhile to deal with his article.  It is, indeed, a characteristic example of the way that the Kypros problem is misrepresented, the victim, rather than the invader himself, is found under accusation, and is then sent to the gulag of psychiatry.

So..., Mr. Stavrinidis's article is highly misleading, because it represents the facts of the current situation as a point of view of "the two sides".

That there is a foreign military occupation in Kypros, it is a fact.  It cannot be aprroached as the view of this or that.

That the people of Kypros have been forced to abandon their homes, and are prevented from returning, is not a point of view.

It is indeed a fact that many Greeks and many Turkish Cypriots have a different perception of what has happened in the last 50 years.  This different perception is also expressed in the intercommunal talks.  But the existence of a difference of opinion, does not negate and does not wipe out elementary principles and ways with which we perceive social and political events.

Obviously, there was a difference of opinion between the black people of South Africa and the racist regime.  Does that justify an approach that says, this side is saying these and these, this other side is saying these other things?  Are we really ready to approach the struggle against South Africa apparthide as a difference of perceptions and opinions?

I am guessing that no, we are absolutely not willing to approach apparthide as a difference of perceptions.

We can produce a rather long list of political conflicts where, although there are indeed, and understandably, and unavoidably, two sides with different opinions and policies, we are nevertheless totally unwilling to take this difference as the major characteristic, much more and the cause of the conflict, and to perceive these conflicts as a difference in perception and opinion.

Human beings are not machines or stones, and so conflicts do shape the psychology of the people.  But this is a secondary consequence, and in no way can it be regarded as the cause of the situation.

These things being like that, why is the problems caused by the Turkish military occupation approached as a difference in perceptions?  Obviously enough, what such an approach does is simply to cover up the Turkish military occupation, and silently to introduce two sides.  And indeed, two sides on an equal footing.  No international law, no human rights, no justice.  Just two quarelling sides, obviously both nationalists, and which we are now told that they may even fall in the glorious domain of psychology.

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Attila --being a comment on the Greek columns of the President's fireplace in the White House

Following the anti-colonial national liberation struggle of 1955-59 in Kypros, Brittish colonialism managed to impose the Zurich and London agreements. Instead of our beloved Enosis, in reality an ancient Greek goddess, the people of Kypros found that our island was declared into an independent republic. Among others, the Zurich aggreements mixed the Neo-Scythians in the affairs of Cyprus, naming Turkey a guarantor and giving her the right to intervene.

In 1974, just like the toothed wheels of a clock, there was a junta in Athena, and the Neo-Scythians were a quarantor power. The toothed wheels moved, and there was a coup by the Greek junta against President Makarios. "Ah, don't worry, we'll fix things", said the Neo-Scythians. Never intending to let such a chance go by, Turkey invaded Cyprus on 20 July 1974, and on the pretext to restore constitution. Nevertheless, the nominal president was saved and returned back to Cyprus since December 1974, but the Turkish occupation army is still here.

According to the customs of the military, Turkey gave a name to their military operation.

What was the name of the Turkish invasion in Cyprus?

turkish poster from July 1974, depicting the invasion of Turkey in Kypros (Chypre)

The name was 'Attila'. It was called the Attila Peace Operation.

More years passed by, and with them even more blood and water, sweat and tears, and electrons, flowed in the appropriate streams of human affairs.

In yet one more incident among the so many incidents of human history, a group of our soldiers were yesterday continuing their military training. As a consequence of the years having passed by, our National Guard replaced the First World War riffles, usually referred as Martini no. 4,

source: http://www.mindspring.com/%7Ermgill/britkit/weapons/no4.html

with which our people faced the Turkish invasion, and is now using modern enough weapons. So, our soldiers were actually training on a French anti-tank missile. Alas, an accident happened, and 18 of our youth were injured. One of them was immediately airlifted to Tel Aviv, in Palestine.

According to the customs of the military, the French anti-tank missile had a name.

What was the name of the missile?

The name was 'Attila'. It was called the Attila anti-tank missile.

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