[MGSA-L] Members of European Parliament and priests taken prisoners, then released by the occupation authority in Ammochostos

[Lampros F. Kallenos]

In an act of extreme provocation, a total of 9 people have 
been taken prisoners of war by the occupation authority, in 
Ammochostos.

These are MEP Eleni Theocharous, Polish MEPs Yaroslav Valesa 
(son of Valesa of Solidarnosk fame) and Artour Zasasta, and 
Bulgarian MEP Maria Nevesleva (spelling pending). Also, 
bishop Porfyrios (perhaps the representative of the Church 
of Kypros in Brusells?) and father Savvas who works on 
matters of cultural heritage.

There are also an employee of EP, ex MEP Matsakis, and 
member of Refugee Movenment Loizos Afxentiou.

Speaking to a journalist of RIK, MEP Theocharous said that 
the team went to the occupied area to inspect the state of 
churches in Rizokarpaso (a vilage in the peninsula of 
Karpasia) and Mesaoria, the plane between Lefkosia and 
Ammochostos.

The following news report, in Greek, mistakenly uses the 
term "arrests", normally used with reference to a police and 
the legal order of a state. But the acts of an occupation 
authority, itself based on a foreign occupation army and 
condemned as illegal by the UN and EU, cannot be described 
as arrests.

http://www.defencenet.gr/defence/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18219&Itemid=87

http://tinyurl.com/6c98klw


As of this moment, there is no information for an academic 
conference that will examine this extreme act, where members 
of European Parliament are taken prisoners --a moment in 
this conflict of nationalisms in Kypros, better understood 
in the frame of nationalism and fanaticism characterizing 
all Unwashed that have yet to realize the unnecessary 
character of wars, invasions and their sacrifices.



Late last night, RIK tv news had a video with Eleni 
Theocharous, apparently set free. Mrs. Theocharous has said 
that the occupation authorities set free the two Polish 
members of EP. But they refused to leave untill all the 
others were also set free.

Mrs. Theocharous also said that in favor of their release 
there was also intervention by some Turkish Cypriots. These 
Turkish Cypriots were actually members of the occupation 
authorities, presenting themselves as "members of parliament".



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Λάμπρος Φ. Καλλένος
Ιδάλιον, Λευκωσία
Κύπρος
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