Your final comments on the readers’ page (Sunday Mail August 29) that our establishment is comfortable with the status quo and failure is a win-win situation, must have been copied straight out of a Turkish paper dedicated to propaganda.
It does not follow with the Mail’s previous warnings that we are losing our rights due to delays in a reaching a solution.
The prime example is Israel, which has used delays to establish settlements in areas that were due to be returned had a peace deal been achieved.
Mr Loucas Charalambous comments that we were offered the return of Famagusta 32 years ago for nothing, sounds very clever. As to his motives, why should Turkey negotiate if they can wait for the EU and their Courts to give them all the human rights at our expense?
After the Second World War, most believed that barbaric actions like ethnic cleansing, occupation, colonisation, human rights violation and intrusions, were impossible in our 20th Century and in Western civilised society.
And so the reasonable beliefs of the Cypriots to wait, expecting pending justice was logical.
It is also naive to believe that an early settlement would have generated a violent future. That’s why these 36 years of waiting were predetermined to condition the new – and what’s left of the old – to accept that without a powerful support, the stark reality is ‘justice is a pipe dream’.
Our redeeming factor is that there is no longer a cold war with Russia, which was the dominating reason for the pre-planned division by America and Britain, because they feared another Cuba in the very volatile Middle East.
Turkey, of course being the willing benefactor of the conspiracy, will agree to none of the requests – if any – of America or Britain that as the cause is no longer valid she should take less share of the booty then what was agreed.
In fact Turkey’s 36-year-old smooth occupation has made them greedy for more. Without the US and UK’s ‘advisory’ whisper in Mr Erdogan’s ears, an eternity of injustice awaits us.
One final point, the ‘readers page’ is for us and should not to be used for your opinion. This reminds me of my wife with whom I agreed on a vegetable patch for my use but after digging it up ready, has taken one third for her flowers.
M Winters
Nicosia
