Word: maratha
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Turks' hard-lining stand was bolstered by the discovery of a mass grave at the village of Maratha in eastern Cyprus, with 84 crumbling corpses; the village's population had been only 93. As Village Shepherd Kemal Mustafa described it, Greek gunmen entered Maratha Aug. 14, herded away elderly men, women and children and shot them. The number of victims was confirmed by Swedish United Nations officers. Greek authorities rather unconvincingly said that the corpses might be Greek Cypriots instead of Turkish-a suggestion that the Turks angrily denounced as an "added insult to our grief." Later...
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