Deputy Chairman of United Democrat (EDI) party and the former
spokesman of Greek Cypriot Administration, Michalis Papapetru
declared that he was trained by some governmental and
non-governmental organizations that gave military training before
1963 with the purpose of putting the Akritas Plan into force and
massacring the Turkish Cypriots.
As it is written in the liberal Politis newspaper of South Cyprus
“Governmental and non-governmental organizations – including me
myself – have given military training to some trainees in order to
put the Akritas plan into force and murder the Turkish Cypriots”
said Papapetru in his confession and underlined that the burden and
the responsibility of the inspections are on the Greek Cypriot
Administration, speaking at a TV program together with the deputy of
the Greens George Perkidis.
According to the newspaper, Perkidis said that the Greek Cypriot
Government should have the responsibility of scrutinizing under what
conditions the left-winged Greek Cypriots murdered and also the
violence applied to Turkish Cypriots afterwards. The daily read:
“At this point Michailis Papapetru said publicly that before 1963
governmental and non-governmental elements including Papapetru
himself with the intention of putting the Akritas Plan into force
and killing Turkish Cypriots, gave military training to his
community. Without appropriating Perkidis’ language who offered the
starting cast of the incident should hear a case, Papapetru said
these are not the subjects for now.”
This news bulletin is taken from Cyprus Times newspaper.
