Regarding the attack against Cyprus Indymedia by the para-state apparatus

by: Efylakas Editorial Team
Συντακτική Ομάδα «Εμπροσθοφύλακας»
efylakas@gmail.com

Regarding the attack against Cyprus Indymedia by the para-state apparatus
11 January 2011

Dear members of the International Indymedia Network,

We are sending this letter on behalf of the Efylakas.com editorial team, because we believe that the accusations against Cyprus Indymedia are false and slanderous, on behalf of people who are in a suspiciously cozy relationship with the oppressive Christofias state.

The editors of Cyprus Indymedia have been harassed the last years by the state apparatus, the secret services and the police, and lately, increasingly, by the para-state apparatus of the Stalinist ruling party AKEL. Such organizations, under the "anti-racist" and "anti-fascist" banners, have criminalized every form of democratic dissent against AKEL, a Stalinist political party, that among others:

- Has collaborated with the occupational Turkish puppet government of Mehmet Ali Talat, an ex-volunteer solider of the fascist TMT, and recently with the far-right Turkish politician Dervish Eroglu.
- By collaborating with the puppet "political" leaders of the Turkish military occupation forces, AKEL has effectively denied thousands of indigenous Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot refugees to return to their indigenous homeland.
- Haravgi newspaper, the mouthpiece of the ruling party, passionately supports, to this day, the massacre of the 22,000 Polish POWs by Stalin and the NKVD - AKEL, and all the peripheral para-state groups that strengthen it, support a racist federal "solution" to the Cyprus problem, a constitutional regime akin to the South African Apartheid, where the northern part of Cyprus will have (by law) to be permanently Turkish, and the South will have (by law) to be permanently Greek.
- "Intellectuals" close to AKEL have openly called for an alliance between AKEL and neoliberal, capitalist forces in order to impose a federal Apartheid regime upon the Cypriots, both Greek and Turkish. In fact, back in 2004, such groups received funding by USAID and UNOPS.

Such para-state organizations are lying, by saying, for example, groups such as 'Epalxi' are racist and fascist, when in fact such groups are: - Grassroots student movements that oppose an Apartheid solution to the Cyprus problem - Are active supporters of further democratization of the state - Frequently bring to the attention of the press and the people the Stalinist behavior of the state, and members of such grassroots groups have been arrested by the Police for leafleting, chanting slogans, and so forth

AKEL's government, the same Christofias's government that these "anti-racist" and "anti-fascist" groups support, is the only government in Cyprus that had a blogger arrested for criticizing the government. Xenis Xenofontos, a young activist lawyer and a Socialist, had his house invaded at 6:30am on the 6th of May 2010 by policemen, had his computers confiscated, and the state attempted to prosecute him on a false pretext.

Supporters of such groups, instead of supporting the socialist activist they openly supported the Stalinist actions of the state and the police which included prior eavesdropping and spying on Xenofontos's communications!

It also has to be noted that since Demetris Christofias took over the Presidency, such "anti-fascist" and "anti-racist" groups have multiplied, and are usually led by the same small group of people, all connected in some way or another with AKEL. AKEL's supporters effectively use the labels "anti-fascist" and "anti-state" to name their groups, in order for the activists outside of Cyprus to be confused and as such to be below the radar of scrutiny by people such as you.

Please do take into consideration all of the above. The Cyprus Indymedia has been a victim of harassment by the state apparatus for years, on the contrary with the accusers of it that recently have been participating in violent rallies and demonstrations funded by two Ministries of the state and the state-sponsored "Youth Organization of Cyprus".

Thank you for your time.

Best regards,

Efylakas Editorial Team
http://www.efylakas.com

From the IMC-Europe Archives:
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-europe/2011-January/0111-p3.html

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Αγαπητοί συναγωνιστές του Κυπριακού Indymedia,

Σας αποστέλλουμε αντίγραφο της επιστολής που στείλαμε στο ευρωπαϊκό Indymedia, σχετικά με τις επιθέσεις που δέχεστε από τις παρακομματικές και παρακρατικές δυνάμεις του ΑΚΕΛ.

Το δημοκρατικό έλλειμα επί Χριστόφια έχει μεγαλώσει δραματικά, και δυστυχώς κανένας δεν διαμαρτύρεται, κυρίως η ηγεσία του ΔΗΣΥ (το αντίθετο, πρόσφατα ο ΔΗΣΥ, σε σύμπνοια με το ΑΚΕΛ, επιτέθηκε κατά των διαφωνούντων με την ρατσιστική ΔΔΟ), πράγμα που σημαίνει πως σύντομα όλοι οι δημοκράτες θα βρισκόμαστε στο στόχαστρο.

Καλή δύναμη και εμείς είμαστε στο πλευρό σας!

Εκ μέρους της
Συντακτικής Ομάδας 'Εμπροσθοφύλακας'
http://www.efylakas.com

From the IMC Cyprus Archives:
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-cyprus/2011-January/0111-zv.html

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Related:

Another Collective Response by Cyprus IndyMedia to New Accusations
http://cyprusindymedia.blogspot.com/2011/01/another-collective-response-by-cyprus.html

Cyprus IndyMedia Collective Responds to Accusations from Athens and Patra IndyMedia
http://cyprusindymedia.blogspot.com/2011/01/cyprus-indymedia-collective-responds-to.html