Last chance for Cyprus

According to this times article current crucial talks with a possible referendum in both halves of the divided Cyprus could be the Islands last chance before, well, before the World ignores it again.

Without a deal soon, Cyprus will again let the best chance for a fresh start slip through its fingers. The world will then turn its back on such blinkered foolishness.

As a kid I daydreamed of going back to my fathers country to claim back the land that was stolen from us.

I would turn up there and, while ignoring the wails of the invaders, I'd demolish the hotels and other buildings that they would have put up on our orchards; the orchards that my father worked so hard to acquire and maintain.

Needless to say this was an impossible dream. There are no hotels. The invaders have done nothing with the land since the got off their boats and started shooting the place up.

Maybe one day I will be able to return there. I hardly remember it because I was so young when it was taken but I did visit it often in my early carefree years.

The only mementoes we have are a few faded photographs, some old land titles and a fist full of ignored UN resolutions.

Posted by John at March 29, 2004 02:22 PM | TrackBack