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Maratha, Santalaris and Aloda massacre
Dead bodies of Turkish Cypriot civilians at Sandallar (Santalaris).Participants EOKA B Location Maratha, Santalaris, Aloda in Cyprus Date 14 August 1974 Result Death of 126 civilians Maratha, Santalaris and Aloda massacre (Turkish: Muratağa, Sandallar ve Atlılar katliamı), refers to the massacre[1][2][3][4][5] of Turkish Cypriots by EOKA B[4] on 14 August 1974[6] in the villages of Maratha, Santalaris and Aloda. 89 (or 84[7]) people from Maratha and Santalaris were killed, and a further 37 people were killed in the village of Aloda.[8] In total, 126[9] people were killed during the massacre.[6]
According to the 1960 census, the inhabitants of the three villages were almost entirely Turkish Cypriots.[10] 84 / 89 of the 207[11] people in Maratha and Santalaris were killed; however, according to some sources, a number of people escaped from the massacre, some people left the villages in the 1960-74 period and some people were not present in the villages when the inhabitants were massacred. Elderly people and children were also killed during the massacre.[7] Only three people were able to escape from the massacre in Aloda.[1] The inhabitants of the three villages were buried in mass graves by a bulldozer. The villagers of Maratha and Santalaris were buried in the same grave.[1]
The United Nations described the massacre as a crime against humanity, by saying "constituting a further crime against humanity committed by the Greek and Greek Cypriot gunmen."[12] The massacre was reported by international media, including The Guardian and The Times.[13]
See also
- List of massacres in Cyprus
References
- ^ a b c Oberling, Pierre. The road to Bellapais: the Turkish Cypriot exodus to northern Cyprus (1982), Social Science Monographs, p. 185
- ^ L'Événement du jeudi, Issues 543-547 (1995), S.A. L'Evénement du jeudi, p. 45 (French)
- ^ Documents officiels, United Nations: "Only three of the inhabitants of Atlilar (Aloa) survived this massacre. For the defenceless inhabitants of the villages of Murataga (Maratha) and Sandallar (Sandallaris)..."
- ^ a b Paul Sant Cassia, Bodies of Evidence: Burial, Memory, and the Recovery of Missing Persons in Cyprus, Berghahn Books, 2007, ISBN 9781845452285, p. 237.
- ^ Gilles de Rapper, Pierre Sintès. Nommer et classer dans les Balkans (2008), French School of Athens, p.263: "le massacre des villages turcs de Tochni (entre Larnaka et Limassol), Maratha, Santalaris et Aloda"
- ^ a b "Muratağa and Sandallar problem is being taken to the European Court of Human Rights" (in Turkish). BRT - Kıbrıs Postası. http://www.kibrispostasi.com/index.php/cat/35/news/28616/PageName/KIBRIS_HABERLERI. Retrieved 18 January 2011.
- ^ a b "CYPRUS: Ankara's Slow Nibble". Time. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,908688,00.html. Retrieved 19 January 2011.
- ^ Paul Sant Cassia, Bodies of Evidence: Burial, Memory, and the Recovery of Missing Persons in Cyprus, Berghahn Books, 2007, ISBN 9781845452285, p. 69.
- ^ List of Turkish Cypriot missing persons (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cyprus) Retrieved on July 18, 2011.
- ^ Map of Cyprus
- ^ ΚΥΠΡΟΣ - CYPRUS (612 villages, 9251,47 Km²)
- ^ UN monthly chronicle, Volume 11 (1974), United Nations, Office of Public Information, p. 98
- ^ Clement Henry Dodd, The political, social and economic development of Northern Cyprus (1993), Eothen Press, p. 101
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