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MISSING TURKISH CYPRIOTS FROM ALEMINYO

In order to eliminate the realities of the Missing Persons issue, the Greek Cypriot Administration has engaged in a new initiative. On 20 July 1974, in the village of Aleminyo in Larnaca, 13 Turkish Cypriots were taken from their homes by Greek Cypriots to an unknown area, and in order to cover up the brutal murder of these 13 Turkish Cypriots the Greek Cypriot Administration is trying to distort the reports on Missing Persons.

According to information received from eye witnesses, the Committee for Missing Persons has reports verifying that on 20 July 1974, under the leadership of Greek Colonel Vassilos Panayopoulos, Turkish Cypriots were taken from their homes by a unit of 400 men from the Greek Cypriot National Guard, and after being detained for three days and three nights at the Greek Cypriot primary school, the women and children were set free, and the 13 Turkish Cypriot men in question were taken to an unknown location by bus.

Steering the American group of experts known as the "Physicians for Human Rights", which has been appointed by the Greek Cypriot Administration to do DNA and identity tests on their own missing, to carry out exhumations at Aleminyo during the month of Ramazan and on the eve of Bayram, which is an important time for the Moslems, has led to some suspicion. The results of the exhumations revealed that the 13 missing Turkish Cypriots in question were buried in the mass graves pointed out by Greek Cypriot villagers, who had buried our Martyrs. On the eve of Bayram the families of the missing have experienced a new tragedy. Additionally, while it was necessary for Turkish Cypriot member Rüstem Tatar from the Missing Persons Committee to be informed of the issue beforehand, this was not the case, and Mr Tatar was unable to observe the exhumation, where the atrocity took place.

It is evident that the Greek Cypriot Administration, who is preparing to become an EU member, by creating scenarios to conceal the fact that they violated human rights on the island and committed merciless murders, is trying to distort the situation of the missing persons. Essentially, UN documents in question have been prepared according to information given by Greek Cypriot eye witnesses and according to this the unarmed persons in question were shot by a firing squad and buried in the mass graves. During the same dates, two more people from the village of Aleminyo were also shot and murdered by a firing squad, and to get rid of any evidence the Greek Cypriots burned one of the bodies. It is evident that as a result of the Greek Cypriot Administration’s initiatives, reference in the Annan Plan prepared by the UN on Cyprus to the issue of Missing Persons was prepared with the aim of reducing the number of missing Turkish Cypriots.

However, it will not be possible for the Greek Cypriots to make fraudulent alterations to international documents that have been prepared with statements from eye witnesses. War correspondent Peter Arnet, who became famous during the Gulf War, during that time, was a correspondent for the Associated Press in Cyprus and this is how he reported this incident to world public opinion:

"The village of Aleminyo was in the news because of the murders, three weeks ago, of 13 Turkish Cypriots from that village. The results of an investigation carried out by the United Nations revealed that 13 people were killed by a firing squad".

PHOTOGRAPHS OF SOME OF THE MISSING TURKISH CYPRIOTS FROM ALEMINYO

     

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