Word: kokkina
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Dates: during 1964-1964
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...dire appeals from the blockaded Turkish Cypriots in the coastal village of Kokkina insisted that they were near starvation. As women and children huddled in caves, their gaunt menfolk stood guard in the trenches. Then last week, down the road from Nicosia came trucks loaded with nine tons of food donated by the very man who had ordered the blockade, Archbishop Makarios, President of Cyprus...
...cursed. One shouted, "We are Turks, and we will die before we accept food from Makarios!" Another grumbled that the food was probably poisoned. The convoy commander, a young Finnish lieutenant of the U.N. peacekeeping force, was appalled. "Your attitude is inhuman," he said. "There are starving babies in Kokkina." A Turk replied, "The whole blockade is inhuman. We don't want Makarios to make propaganda by giving us food. We will leave it on the road or throw it into...
Peace was indeed wonderful, but at week's end it had not much reduced suspicion and racial hatred on Cyprus. Now food was pouring in from the Red Crescent and the U.N., and there was enough to eat even at Kokkina. But the nine tons of food sent by Makarios lay untouched beside the road, slowly spoiling in the hot sun. On one crate, an infuriated Turkish Cypriot had scrawled, "Don't play politics with our stomachs...
...peace-keeping force took a few aggressive steps. U.N. posts, manned by Swedish troops, were set up between the lines of the Turkish Cypriot defenders of Kokkina and the Greek Cypriot besiegers on the mountainside. Canadian, Finnish and Danish U.N. troops, moving forward with the bayonet, dismantled Turkish Cypriot gun positions that menaced a U.N. headquarters near Nicosia...
...midsummer heat and sentries dozed over their Bren guns in sandbagged positions on the high ridges. But the quiet was deceptive, openly characterized by U.N. Commander Thimayya as "only a breather." Without much success, he was frantically trying to get U.N. troop units sandwiched between the opposing sides at Kokkina as a way to prevent another outbreak. At the same time, he appealed to U.N. headquarters for more troops, arguing that his 6,000 men were not enough to keep the peace; but no one was volunteering. Meanwhile, the careless smokers lingered at the powder keg. Declared Thimayya at week...