THE MOST important document there is about the Cyprus problem is the
‘Akritas’ plan. It is incontrovertible testimony as to how the
Cyprus problem was created in the form it has had for the last 42
years. Nobody should be allowed to talk about the Cyprus problem if
he has not read the ‘Akritas’ plan.
Of course, most Greek Cypriots are completely in the dark about the
history of their country’s troubles, something which constantly
pushes them into making new mistakes. I would bet my life that among
the hundreds of clueless and uneducated characters who appear in the
media every day as journalists – supposedly to inform the public –
you will not find 10 who would have read this document, which is the
key to understanding the Cyprus problem. This bitter truth alone
explains why we Greek Cypriots are rooted to a primitive level of
politics.
In reality, the Cyprus problem was brought into being by this
idiotic and nationally catastrophic plan. A plan, which, in Demetris
Christofias’ phraseology, would have been describe as treasonous. It
is a glowing monument of political stupidity and irresponsibility.
The very same man who had signed the Treaty of Establishment for
this state and his ministers, as soon as this state came into being,
began plotting its dissolution. And for this purpose they set up an
illegal organisation. Only in the minds of a Makarios, a
Papadopoulos, a Yiorkadjis, a Kyprianou and a Lyssarides could such
paranoid politics have found fertile ground.
The gist of this insane plan is included in the following few lines:
Stage 1: Create of the impression among international public
opinion, that the Cyprus issue had not been solved correctly and
condemn of the Treaty of Guarantee, “the first target of our
attack”.
Stage 2: Seek amendment of negative elements of the agreements by
all means. “We can even justify unilateral action.”
Stage 3: “Following the above action, the Treaty of Guarantee (right
of interventions) is rendered legally and substantively
unenforceable”.
Stage 4: “With Cyprus freed (from the treaties of Alliance and
Guarantee) the people would be enabled to express and implement
their desire.”
Stage 5: “Lawful confrontation by the forces of the state (police
and friendly military troops) of any intervention from within or
from outside because then we would be completely independent.”
This plan was not put together by people who had escaped from a
mental hospital, as some may think. Its writers made it obvious that
they knew very well they were playing with fire. The only parts of
the document which are written in block capitals are those informing
the recipients that leaking of it was tantamount to “high treason”
and urging members of the organisation of their obligation to
“destroy by fire”, once it had been read. They were obviously
concerned that the Turks might have got wind of it.
This was the great plan, with which Mr Papadopoulos – the deputy
chief of Akritas – and his fellow-fighters destroyed the Cyprus
Republic, which, as he discovered 40 years later, by his own
admission, was a “blessed solution”, even better than joining the EU.
The achievement of Papadopoulos’ and his organisation’s national
activities was truly impressive.
Within a few days, they had created the enclave between Nicosia and
Kyrenia, in which they compressed a large number of the Turkish
Cypriots. They laid the foundations of partition. Ten years later,
the enclave was used by the Turkish invasion force as a bridgehead
for its landing in Cyprus and, expanded by the troops, it evolved in
the ‘Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus’.
And now that readers know who had written, in Greek, the pro-Turkish
Akritas plan, they should – to use Papadopoulos’ immortal words –
“judge for themselves if this helped the Hellenism of Cyprus or our
case…”
This article is taken from Cyprus Mail newspaper.
(26.04.2005)
