The Refugee Problem In Cyprus

Author : United States Congress
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333816049
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Humanitarian Problems on Cyprus, Vol. 2 written by United States Congress and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Humanitarian Problems on Cyprus, Vol. 2: Hearing Before the Subcommittee to Investigate Problems Connected With Refugees and Escapees of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Third Congress, Second Session; December 1, 1974 Regrettably, in these past 5 months little has changed on Cyprus. The Turkish occupation of at least 40 percent of the island continues. The economy deteriorates every day. And over people, both Turkish and Greek, remain refugees - driven from their lands and homes only a few miles away. For 5 months they have lived in fields, under trees, along the roadsides, in tents, in schools and churches - wherever they could find shelter and help. And today they shiver - idly in the winter cold - *still waiting the opportunity to return to their livelihoods and homes, and to their families and friends. The tragedy on Cyprus remains the same, but so do the issues in American policy toward ending the crisis. Our Government still persists in viewing the Turkish action on the island as simply a new reality to cope with. We still fail to condemn the invasion and occupa tion of an independent state. We still fail to acknowledge that the human tragedy on Cyprus was brought about with the illegal use of American supplied weapons. We still relegate to the sidelines a central issue for Cyprus - the return of refugees to their homes. And, as in so many other recent world problems with heavy American involvement, the administration is still asking for a little more time on Cyprus, in order to bring about its repeated assurances of early negotiations to achieve a political settlement. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.