Eines der wahrsten Dinge, die ich seit einiger Zeit gesehen habe

Chronologically Ireland should be first

Then India followed by Isreal 🙂

The methods were not exactly the same in all cases.

In the case of Cyprus, after WWII and the establishment of the UN and the principle of Decolonization, we expect that Britain would show some respect to the Cypriot people and allow us to determine our own future with a referendum for the union of Cyprus with Greece, which is what the vast majority of Cypriots wanted.

Instead of that, the British told us that Cyprus could never be decolonized because it was strategically too important for the British empire.

As a result of that statement the Cypriot people revolted against the British. Britain could of course put down our revolution by brute force (the difference in power between Cypriots and the British empire was vast) but they didn’t want to do that, since they were trying to project an image of the „good guys“ who defeated the evil Nazis and who would defend the world (along with the Americans) from the evil communists.

So instead of fighting us directly, they hired Turkish Cypriots as policemen and soldiers in order to fight against our revolutionaries. They also involved Turkey in Cyprus, by coming up with the idea of partitioning Cyprus (the Turks were surprised but also delighted with the unexpected British gift). So Turkey propagandized partition to the TCs via newspapers and radio broadcasts and enticed them to turn against Greek Cypriots. Soon after the TCs were attacking not just the Greek Cypriot revolutionaries but also Greek Cypriot civilians, burning down Greek Cypriot shops and homes and committing the first massacre since the end of Ottoman rule. Greek Cypriots responded in kind, and in this way the British managed to turn a revolution against them into a civil war, and themselves from evil Colonizers to the good „peacemakers“ and „mediators“.

They then blackmailed our leadership (with the thread of partition and civil war) to accept a divisive and dysfunctional foreign made constitution, with foreign armies, foreign bases (essentially parts of Cyprus which remained under Britain), foreign judges of the supreme court and super-privileges to the TC minority at the expense of the majority of the population, and in this way ensuring that Cyprus will always have bigger internal problems and we will never be in a strong enough position to demand an end of their colonial rule over parts of our island.

This is why the British, even after 1974, are hell bend in not allowing a proper solution to the Cyprus problem. They want any change to the status quo to be replaced with yet another dysfunctional and problematic arrangement which will maintain the internal conflict in Cyprus (such as the Annan plan) in order to ensure that we will never get to the point that we can push their bases out of Cyprus.