BARBARIANS / 1974
Sun reporter Iain Walker sends a shock report from #Cyprus
on the Turkish invaders Image
NICOSIA, SUNDAY

‘My fiance and six men were shot dead. The Turkish soldiers laughed at me and then I was raped.
GREEK CYPRIOT GIRL AGED 20

‘The Turkish soldiers cut off my father’s hands and legs. Then they shot him while I watched.
GREEK CYPRIOT WOMAN AGED 32
‘They shot the men.
My friend’s wife said ‘Why should I live without my husband?’
A soldier shot her in the head.
GREEK CYPRIOT FARMER AGED 51

A HORRIFYING story of atrocities by the Turkish invaders of Cyprus emerged today.
It was told by weeping Greek Cypriot villagers rescued by United Nations soldiers.

THEY TOLD of barbaric rape at gunpoint … and threats of instant execution if they struggled.

THEY TOLD of watching their loved ones tortured and shot.
The villagers are from Trimithi, Karmi and Ayios Georhios, three farming communities west of the holiday town of Kyrenia, directly in the path of the Turkish Army.

Sheltered
They had been trapped since the fighting began two weeks ago and were only evacuated to Nicosia by the UN
.. on Saturday.
And today at a Nicosia orphanage they told me their tales – simply and without any prompting.

A 20-year old girl in a pretty yellow and white dress sat under a painting of Jesus tending his flock as she described how she was raped.
She had been visiting her fiance who worked in a hotel near Kyrenia when the Turks attacked. For the first 24 hours she sheltered with other villagers in a stable until they were discovered by Turkish soldiers. She then watched as her fiance and six other men were shot dead in..
.. in cold blood – only a few minutes after they had been promised that they would not be harmed.

She said: »After the shooting, a Turkish soldier grabbed me and pulled me into a ditch. I struggled and tried to escape but he pushed me to the ground.
He tore at my clothes and they were ripped up to my waist. Then he started undressing himself

Baby
«Another Turkish soldier who was watching us had a nine-month-old baby in his arms and, trying to save myself, I shouted that the baby was mine

»But they laughed at me and threw
threw the baby to the ground. I was then raped and I fainted soon after.

»When I came to my senses I saw 15 other soldiers standing round watching. The first soldier was taking off my watch and engagement ring. Others were going to rape me – when one of them objected
For, while the peace talks went on, Turkish soldiers were killing terrorising innocent civilians The behaviour of these troops will shock the world
As they are in #Cyprus in the name of #Turkey, that nation must immediately take action against the animals that wear its uniform.. Image
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