by Oracle » Thu Oct 02, 2008 9:16 pm
In another example from the great litany of Turkish atrocities ...
Wiki wrote:
Refugees from the fire (Smyrna, 1922)
Despite the fact that there were numerous ships from various Allied powers in the harbor of Smyrna, the vast majority of ships, citing "neutrality," did not pick up Greek and Armenian civilians who were forced to flee the fire and Turkish troops. Military bands played loud music to drown out the screams of those who were drowning in the harbor.
There were approximately 400,000 Greek and Armenian refugees from Smyrna and the surrounding area who received Red Cross aid immediately after the destruction of the city.
Other scholars give a different account of the events; they argue that the Turks first forbade foreign ships in the harbor to pick up the survivors, but, then, under pressure especially from Britain, France, and the United States, they allowed the rescuing of all the Christians except males 17 to 45 years old, whom they aimed to deport into the interior, which "was regarded as a short life sentence to slavery under brutal masters, ended by mysterious death".
A Japanese freighter dumped all of its cargo and filled itself to the brink with refugees, taking them to the Greek port of Pireaus and safety.
The captain of the Japanese freighter is surely a forgotten hero .... a brave and humanitarian person.
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by repulsewarrior » Fri Oct 03, 2008 4:14 am
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by Oracle » Mon Oct 06, 2008 6:03 pm
Lysi village in Mesaoria, Famagusta district, CYPRUS. Birth town of the legendary Gregoris Pieris Afxentiou, Anti-lieutenant of the Greek army, and second in command of the Cypriot Liberation Organisation E.O.K.A. that was fighting the British colonial power between 1955-1959, and helped to achieve independence in 1960.
In 1955 the British offered 5,000 English pounds for his capture. Afxentiou died heroically on the 3rd of March 1957, inside his hide-out near Macheras Greek Orthodox monastery on Macheras mountains, fighting against the British colonial Rule of Cyprus. He fought for more than 8 hours, single handed, against a regiment of British paratroopers that surrounded him after he was betrayed. The British, being unable to capture, or subdue him, and in view of mounting losses that they suffered, they threw petrol/gas inside the cave and burned him alive, only succeeding to prove once more that: "...from now on we will not say that Greeks fight like Heroes, but that Heroes fight like the Greeks..."!!!(BBC broadcast during WWII)
Source: Cyprus Directory.
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by repulsewarrior » Tue Oct 07, 2008 3:46 am
o' how i remember
my way to merika bay
overthe mountain durell
knew, and the black holes
still scarred those days.
i did not know his name
thank-you, mdme. O
my OP
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by denizaksulu » Tue Oct 07, 2008 10:01 am
Oracle wrote:
Lysi village in Mesaoria, Famagusta district, CYPRUS. Birth town of the legendary Gregoris Pieris Afxentiou, Anti-lieutenant of the Greek army, and second in command of the Cypriot Liberation Organisation E.O.K.A. that was fighting the British colonial power between 1955-1959, and helped to achieve independence in 1960.
In 1955 the British offered 5,000 English pounds for his capture. Afxentiou died heroically on the 3rd of March 1957, inside his hide-out near Macheras Greek Orthodox monastery on Macheras mountains, fighting against the British colonial Rule of Cyprus. He fought for more than 8 hours, single handed, against a regiment of British paratroopers that surrounded him after he was betrayed. The British, being unable to capture, or subdue him, and in view of mounting losses that they suffered, they threw petrol/gas inside the cave and burned him alive, only succeeding to prove once more that: "...from now on we will not say that Greeks fight like Heroes, but that Heroes fight like the Greeks..."!!!(BBC broadcast during WWII)
Source: Cyprus Directory.
Oracle, do you have anything on Karaolis. He was executed by the British, around 1955/6 if I am not wrong.
I was living in Kyrenia at the time and what I remembered was the eerie silence and the pealing of the churchbells intermitingly on the day of the execution.
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by Oracle » Tue Oct 07, 2008 12:24 pm
denizaksulu wrote:
Oracle, do you have anything on Karaolis. He was executed by the British, around 1955/6 if I am not wrong.
I was living in Kyrenia at the time and what I remembered was the eerie silence and the pealing of the churchbells intermitingly on the day of the execution.
How were you made aware of why the church-bells rang Deniz? That would be interesting if you could recall that "genesis" which upped the stakes for the struggle.
Briefly Michalis Karaolis joined the struggle against the British by blowing up one of their Tax Offices (where he had worked) on a Sunday to avoid casualties.
After going underground as a wanted man, he was caught by some Turkish Cypriot policemen who handed him over to the British.
Symbolic, huh?
Then he became "martyred" as being amongst the first (along with Andreas Dimitriou) to be executed by the British (by hanging) May 10th 1956, which sparked anti-British Sentiment and riots, even in Greece.
The result of that execution is bloody history ... and here is an archived excerpt from Kathimerini which speaks volumes ....
http://www.cyprus-forum.com/cyprus20008-150.html
UNTIL TODAY......IN THIS FORUM...YOU CAN SEE THE PEOPLE ARE SCREW HARD TO THOSE WORKED WITH BRITISH COLONIAL.........
UNTIL NOW.....PEOPLE ARE STILL SCREWING HARD AND CONDEMNING THOSE WORKED WITH BRITISH COLONIAL ADNINISTRATION......
THESE ARE FACTS...THOSE WORKED WITH COLONIAL ADMINISTRATION ARE BETRAYING ALL, ARE BETRAYING THE WHOLE INDEPENDENCE FIGHTERS.....ARE TRAITORS, PENGKHIANAT, TRUE AFCTS ARE TRUE FACTS....
SEE NOW, IN INDIA...............THOSE WORKED WITH BRITISH ADMINISTRATIONS ARE DOGGIES....RUNNING DOGS AND PENGKHIANAT BANGSA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!FACTS OF THE FACTS!!!!!!!!
This war went on for 300 years.
The British Raj started in India in 1850. Religious beliefs were tampered and gave rise to a rebellion. And the great war of independence began. India took a long time to gain Independence, people were confused as what to use as a weapon to fight against the British – violence or non – violence. Conflict of ideologies led to different paths but produced great individuals. Great leaders. Great revolutionaries. Real heroes.
Mangal Pandey
born – 19th july 1827
died – 8th april 1857 (hanged)
famous for – being the first rebel who instigated the 1857 war of independence.
reason for rebellion – rebellion against cartridges introduced by the british which were greased with the fat of cow, sacred to the hindus.
organisation – 34th Regiment of the bengal native infantry.
why is he so awesome: didn’t give a fuck about anybody. lived life on his own terms. was ready to give up his life for a cause he thought was worth dying for.
quote – “anything for my bharat (india)”.
Rani Laxmibai
born – 19th nov 1828
died – 17th june 1858 (in battle)
famous for – being one of the leading figures in the first war of independence.
reason for rebellion – siege of jhansi by the british.
organisation – queen of jhansi.
why is she so awesome – the coolest queen ever who went to war. fought against the british to save cities from being sieged. fought bravely in battle till her last breath. her courage cannot be measured. hats off my lady.
quote – “won’t give up my jhansi”
Lokmanya Tilak
born – 23rd july 1856
died – 1st aug 1920
famous for – lashing out at the british government fearlessly. he was the strongest advocate of self-rule.
reason for rebellion – fed up of the british imperialism.
organisation – indian national congress.
why is he so awesome – he had the guts to speak his mind against the british when his fellow moderate activists shaked in their boots. went to prison a couple of times. supported revolutionaries and was an extremist to the core. his writings encouraged the chapekar brothers to kill rand.
quote – “swaraj (self-rule) is my birth right and i shall have it”.
Chapekar brothers
died – (damodar hari chapekar) 18th april 1898 (hanged)
(vasudev hari chapekar) 8th may 1899 (hanged)
(balkrishna hari chapekar) 12th may 1899 (hanged)
famous for – killing officer rand and other police informants with the help of fellow revolutionaries, mahadev vinayak ranade and khando vishnu sathe.
reason for rebellion – tyrannical methods were applied by mr. rand when he was entrusted the job of handling the plauge problem in pune in 1896-97. also european soldiers had abused the people and their religious sentiments by breaking idols of hindu deities.
why are they so awesome: shot asshole rand who was responsible for more than 2000 deaths in pune. also shot police informants. even in those days showed the world that revenge in the purest emotion.
sadly very few people remember these daredevil revolutionaries today.
Lala Lajpatrai
born – 28th jan 1865
died – 17th nov 1928 (injuries sustained in a lathi charge)
famous for – leading a procession to demonstrate against the simon commission. he continued to protest amidst a lathi charge. succumbed to his injuries later.
reason for rebellion – fucked up simon commission.
organisation – indian national congress.
why is he so awesome – even at the age of 63 led young revolutionaries like bhagat singh and co. to protest against the british government. the simon commission needed to be opposed and he took the initiative. people often called him ‘the lion of punjab’, which he truly was in the true sense of the term.
quote – “every blow aimed at me is a nail in the coffin of british imperialism”.
Veer Savarkar
born – 28th may 1883
died – 26th feb 1966 (self-termination)
famous for – participating in the indian independence movement. promoted hindutva. also spent 10 years in jail at andaman nicobar islands under inhuman conditions.
reason for rebellion – firm believer of the fact that india belongs to indians (hindus).
organisation – abhinav bharat, india house, hindu-mahasabha.
why is he so awesome - escaped from his cell on a ship through a porthole and dived into the water, swimming a long distance to the shore. under inhuman conditions at andaman and nicobar jail lived like a fighter and refused to give up. wrote songs on the walls of the dark, dingy cell. an inspiration to all of us.
quote – “o great sea, my heart aches for the motherland”.
please read this -
savarkar was a national and political ‘non-entity’ in independent India by the time he died and thereafter. after his death, since savarkar was championing militarization, some thought that it would be fitting if his mortal remains were to be carried on a gun-carriage. a request to that effect was made to the then defence minister, y. b. chavan, who later on became deputy prime minister of india. but chavan turned down the proposal and not a single minister from the maharashtra cabinet showed up in the cremation ground to pay homage to savarkar. in delhi, the speaker of the parliament turned down a request that it pay homage to savarkar. in fact, after the independence of india, jawaharlal nehru had put forward a proposal to demolish the cellular jail in the andamans and build a hospital in its place. when y. b. chavan, as the home minister of india, went to the andamans, he was asked whether he would like to visit savarkar’s jail but he was not interested. also when morarji desai went as prime minister to the andamans, he too refused to visit savarkar’s cell.
savarkar was a great revolutionary who was never given his due by ass-licking congress politicians. may his soul rest in peace. desai, chavan and nehru were assholes who didn’t have the balls to run our nation. bloody mofos.
Bose
born – 23rd jan 1897
died – 18th aug 1945 (plane crash)
famous for – reorganising and leading the indian national army in world war II.
reason for rebellion – grant for complete independence.
organisation – indian national congress, indian national army, azad hind.
why is he so awesome – he was a self-acknowledged extremist to the core. he openly attacked congress’s idiotic policies. supported bhagat singh and was against his execution. during the outbreak of second world war, reorganised the indian army to fight against the british. gutsy but a forgotten hero.
quote – “give me blood and I will give you freedom”.
Madanlal Dhingra
born – 18th feb 1883
died – 17th aug 1909 (hanged)
famous for – killing british official curzon wyllie.
reason for rebellion – poor management of famine affected areas by wyllie during his reign.
organisation – india house.
why is he so awesome – was one of the first revolutionaries of the 20th century. killed a british official on his own turf. inspired lots of other revolutionaries like bhagat singh and azad in years to come.
quote – “poor in health and intellect, a son like myself has nothing else to offer to the mother but his own blood. and so I have sacrificed the same on her altar. the only lesson required in india at present is to learn how to die, and the only way to teach it is by dying ourselves. my only prayer to god is that I may be re-born of the same mother and I may re-die in the same sacred cause till the cause is successful. vande mataram”.
Khudiram Bose
born – 3rd dec 1889
died – 11th aug 1908 (hanged)
famous for – muzzafarpur killing where he threw bombs along with prafulla chaki on a carriage to assassinate kingsford, the calcutta presidency magistrate.
reason for rebellion – partition of bengal by the british.
why is he so awesome – was the youngest revolutionary at that particular time. a mere 18 yr old when he was hanged. still had immense patriotism which was instilled in him at a very young age. as a 16 yr old planted bombs near police stations and targeted government officials.
when the judge pronounced the death sentence for him, khudiram’s immediate and spontaneous response was to smile. the judge, surprised, asked khudiram whether he had understood the meaning of the sentence that was just pronounced. khudiram replied that he surely had. when the judge asked him again whether he had anything to say, in front of a packed audience, khudiram replied with same smile that if he could be given some time, he could teach the judge the skill of bomb-making. by then the judge was instructing the police to escort the boy out of the courtroom. the judge got pawned by an 18 yr old.
also went to the gallows smiling. what an inspiration. hats off.
quote - ”bandemataram”.
i would also like to mention that revolutionary prafulla chaki committed suicide after being cornered by the police. he was 20 yrs old.
Surya Sen
born – 22nd mar 1894
died – 12th jan 1934 (hanged in an unconscious state after being severely tortured for days )
famous for – raided chittagong armoury and succeeded in dislocating telephone and telegraph communications and disrupting the movement of the trains. total sixtyfive revolutionaries took part in the raid, which was undertaken in the name of the indian republican army, chittagong branch. after the successful raids, all the revolutionary groups gathered outside the police armoury where surya sen took a military salute, hoisted the national flag and proclaimed a provisional revolutionary government.
reason for rebellion – hatred against the british.
organisation – anushilan samiti.
why is he so awesome – surya sen was always in hiding, moving from one place to another. sometimes he used to take a job as a workman; sometimes he would take a job as a farmer, or milkman, or priest, houseworker or even as a pious muslim. this is how he used to avoid being captured.
after being captured was allegedly tortured for days (british executioners broke all his teeth with hammer and plucked all nails and broke all limbs and joints. he was dragged to the rope unconscious. after his death his dead body wasn’t given any funeral. the prison authority, it was found later, put his dead body in a metallic cage and dumped into the bay of bengal.
may his soul rest in peace for eternity. i bow to thee. hats off.
quote - ”death is knocking at my door. my mind is flying away towards infinity … this is the moment to myself to embrace death as the dearest of friends. in this happy, sacred and crucial moment, what am I leaving for you all? only one thing, my dream, a golden dream, the dream of a free india. dear friends, march ahead; never retrace your step. days of servitude are receding. freedom’s illuminating ray is visible over there. arise and never give way to despair. success is sure to come.” – from his last letter to his friends.
Pritilata Waddedar
born – 5th may 1911
died – 23rd september 1932
famous for - attack on the Pahartali European Club.
reason for rebellion – the club bore the notorious sign ‘Dogs and Indians not allowed’. enough said.
organisation – anushilan samiti.
why is she so awesome - committed suicide voluntarily, after being surrounded by the police to convey the message that women can, and have to, sacrifice their lives for securing the freedom of india from british colonial rule.
Ashfaqulla Khan
Roshan Singh
Ramprasad Bismil
Chandrashekhar Azad
Bhagat Singh
Shivram Rajguru
Sukhdev Thapar
Nathuram Godse
i salute these heroes and those others who have faded into oblivion. these were the real freedom fighters of india. a tribute to them. my blood boils when i see unworthy politicians conferred with undeserving respect and fame. our freedom fighters were the true heroes. REAL MEN.
india isn’t just about gandhi and nehru, about poverty and filth, about kama-sutra and bollywood, about violence and riots. its more than that. love, humanity, intelligence, sacrifice, loyalty, patriotism, self-respect, pride and courage are all the qualities which make a true indian. proud to be one. JAI HIND.
a message to all indians -
why are we so eager to put back our indianness. all we do is, ape the west. traditional day in colleges is like alien clothing day. people sneer at you if you wear a dhoti or a kurta. being patriotic for people is a waste of time. self-respect and principles are lying in the gutters. watching third grade bollywood romantic movies over patriotic ones like ‘khelein hum jee jaan se’ is more important. getting a hard on over a mere mention of some chutiya foreign university defines today’s youth. people are more interested in touring the swiss landscape than our own heavenly breathtaking leh-ladakh. shameless bollywood personalities throw halloween parties for each other. ‘assholes, diwali, dussehra ki party rakhna banned hai kya.’ christmas celebrations are grander than diwali. why? just because western culture follows it. is this what our freedom fighters died for? shame on us.
http://sidirock.wordpress.com/2009/07/10/heroes/
NEITHER THE COMMUNIST AND COLONIAL POLICEMEN ARE HEROES......
LEARN THESE FACTS!!!!!!!!!!!
don't praise them---communists are bad, and colonial policemen are bad, too!
both are not heroes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
both should be condemned...........it is bad to praise colonial doggies , too! it is a betraying and khianat act!!!!!!!!!!
condemn both!!!
