Word: sampson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...peasants, Nikos Giorgiades adopted Sampson as his surname because he thought it expressed the strength an underground fighter ought to have. A British intelligence officer who has long known him said harshly...
...Sampson is a thug and killer, pure and simple." British authorities believe that he was responsible for 26 killings in his fight against British rule, but he was never convicted of murder...
Sadistic Reputation. One senior British official recalls that after a terrorist killing, Sampson would frequently be "the first reporter on the scene. The reason, of course, was that he himself had committed the murders. He would hide behind a narrow turning in a Nicosia side street, wait for his victim to pass, and then blow the man's head off or shatter his back. He would toss his gun to a small boy, who would disappear into the bowels of the earth. Sampson would then run away and reappear several minutes later clutching his reporter's notebook." Although...
...Sampson, in his single public appearance as President before the Turkish invasion, met foreign newsmen in Nicosia to charge Makarios with torturing Cypriots and display some of the archbishop's weapons and "victims...
...President also insisted to the Turks-who well remembered the days when his gang used to attack them with provocations-that "the Turkish community is in no danger at all." Cypriot Turks were unconvinced by his assertion. Rauf Denktas, leader of the Turkish community on Cyprus, refused to recognize Sampson's takeover of power and openly called on Turkey and Britain to oppose...