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|17-18 men taken as prisoners of war to Sinta and shot there. Other villagers were deported in two buses and shot on the way back from the police headquarters in Nicosia. Total number of missing from the village is given as 83-84.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Uludağ|first1=Sevgül|author-link1=Sevgül Uludağ|title=The story of Assia (Pasakoy) and Afanya (Gazikoy)|url=http://www.stwing.upenn.edu/~durduran/hamambocu/authors/svg/svg9_2_2008.html|publisher=Hamamböcüleri Journal}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=European Parliament resolution on mass graves of the missing persons of Ashia at Ornithi village in the occupied part of Cyprus (2015/2551(RSP))|url=http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=MOTION&reference=B8-2015-0156&language=EN|publisher=European Parliament|access-date=23 April 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Protest for the missing of Assia|url=http://cyprus-mail.com/2014/12/10/protest-for-the-missing-of-assia/|publisher=Cyprus Mail|access-date=23 April 2015|date=10 December 2014}}</ref> |17-18 men taken as prisoners of war to Sinta and shot there. Other villagers were deported in two buses and shot on the way back from the police headquarters in Nicosia. Total number of missing from the village is given as 83-84. Part of ].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Uludağ|first1=Sevgül|author-link1=Sevgül Uludağ|title=The story of Assia (Pasakoy) and Afanya (Gazikoy)|url=http://www.stwing.upenn.edu/~durduran/hamambocu/authors/svg/svg9_2_2008.html|publisher=Hamamböcüleri Journal}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=European Parliament resolution on mass graves of the missing persons of Ashia at Ornithi village in the occupied part of Cyprus (2015/2551(RSP))|url=http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=MOTION&reference=B8-2015-0156&language=EN|publisher=European Parliament|access-date=23 April 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Protest for the missing of Assia|url=http://cyprus-mail.com/2014/12/10/protest-for-the-missing-of-assia/|publisher=Cyprus Mail|access-date=23 April 2015|date=10 December 2014}}</ref>
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|Massacre in Eptakomi<ref>{{Cite web |date=2008-04-15 |title=Angelique Chrisafis on finding her uncle's remains from Cyprus' 1974 ethinic killing |url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/apr/15/cyprus |access-date=2022-02-27 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}</ref> |Massacre in Eptakomi<ref>{{Cite web |date=2008-04-15 |title=Angelique Chrisafis on finding her uncle's remains from Cyprus' 1974 ethinic killing |url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/apr/15/cyprus |access-date=2022-02-27 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}</ref>
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This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (May 2011)

The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Cyprus:

Name Date Location Deaths Perpetrators Notes
Jewish massacre of Greeks 117 CE mainly Salamis 240,000 Jewish rebels After the revolt had been fully defeated, laws were created forbidding any Jews to live on the island.
Massacre in Lefkara 1570 Lefkara 400 Venetian army against Cypriots of village
Massacre in Nicosia September 9, 1570 Nicosia 20,000 Ottoman army The city was looted following its fall to Ottomans, the figure is an estimation of deaths.
9 July Massacre of Greek-Cypriots July 9, 1821 Nicosia 486 Ottoman army Hundreds of prominent Greek-Cypriots including Archbishop Kyprianos were executed by the Ottoman Turks during the Massacres of the Greek War of Independence.
Geunyeli Massacre of Greek-Cypriots June 12, 1958 Geunyeli 8 Turkish Cypriot Civilians On June 12, 1958, eight Greek-Cypriots were killed by Turkish Cypriot locals, near the village of Geunyeli, after having been ordered to walk back to their village of Kondemenos. Part of Cypriot intercommunal violence
Massacre in Famagusta May 12, 1964 Famagusta 17 Greek Cypriot militia The event happened as an act of revenge for the killing of 2 Cypriot soldiers and 1 police in city at 11 May.
Massacre in Akrotiri and Dhekelia May 13, 1964 Akrotiri and Dhekelia 11 Greek Cypriot police forces and civilians The event happened as an act of revenge for the killing of 2 Cypriot soldiers and 1 police in Famagusta at 11 May.
Massacre in Alaminos July 20, 1974 Alaminos 13 or 14 Greek Cypriot militia 183 Turkish Cypriots and 350 Greek Cypriots used to live in town before massacre
Massacre in Sysklipos August 3, 1974 Sysklipos 14 Turkish Cypriot militia and Turkish army 14 Greek Cypriots were killed in a house and buried in a mass grave on August 3, and those who remained at the village disappeared on August 26, they are still missing. Part of Turkish invasion of Cyprus
Maratha, Santalaris and Aloda massacre August 14, 1974 Maratha, Santalaris and Aloda 126 EOKA B Almost all Turkish Cypriot inhabitants of the villages were killed and their bodies battered.
Tochni massacre August 14, 1974 Tochni 84 EOKA B EOKA B took 85 hostages from the village of Tochni and the nearby village of Zygi, mainly men and minor boys from the age of 13, to the village of Palodia for execution with automatic guns. One of them managed to escape.
Massacre in Prastio August 16, 1974 Prastio, Famagusta 8 Turkish army Execution of eight civilians taken prisoner by Turkish soldiers. Part of Turkish invasion of Cyprus.
Massacres of the people of Asha August, 1974 Asha and Sinta 83-84 Turkish army 17-18 men taken as prisoners of war to Sinta and shot there. Other villagers were deported in two buses and shot on the way back from the police headquarters in Nicosia. Total number of missing from the village is given as 83-84. Part of Turkish invasion of Cyprus.
Massacre in Eptakomi August, 1974 Eptakomi 12 Turkish army and militias 12 Greek Cypriots found in a mass grave executed with their hands tied. Part of Turkish invasion of Cyprus.
Massacre in Angolemi August, 1974 Angolemi 5 Greek Cypriot militia A family of three (father, mother and teenage daughter) and two men killed

Notes

  1. This estimate comes from the Roman historian Cassius Dio.

References

  1. JewishEncyclopedia.com - CYPRUS, Dio Cassius, lxviii. 32
  2. Hill, George (2010), Luke, Harry (ed.), "The Church under the Turks (1571–1878)", A History of Cyprus, Cambridge University Press, pp. 305–400, doi:10.1017/cbo9780511751738.011, ISBN 978-0-511-75173-8, retrieved 2020-03-25
  3. "A History of Cyprus. By Sir George Hill. Volumes II and III. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 1948. Pp. xl, 496; vi, 497–1198. $23.50 per set.)". The American Historical Review. July 1949. doi:10.1086/ahr/54.4.865. ISSN 1937-5239.
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  7. The Outbreak of Communal Strife, 1958 Archived November 13, 2012, at the Wayback Machine The Guardian, London.
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  10. sabah, daily (2018-08-08). "'Kill 10 Turks for each slain Greek,' Greek Cypriot forces told amid pre-division violence". Daily Sabah. Retrieved 2020-06-05.
  11. Documents Officiels, United Nations Security Council, p. 82: "Alaminos village has already been in the news because a massacre of 13 Turkish Cypriots was discovered there"
  12. Impact: International Fortnightly, Volumes 4-6: Fourteen Turkish Cypriots were murdered at the village of Alaminos on 20 July.
  13. Massacre of Turks alleged (St. Petersburg Times, 29 July 1974)
  14. Uludağ, Sevgül. Stories from Agios Vasilios, Shilloura and Sysklipos… (published in Politis newspaper on 10 February 2013).
  15. ^ Paul Sant Cassia, Bodies of Evidence: Burial, Memory, and the Recovery of Missing Persons in Cyprus, Berghahn Books, 2007, ISBN 978-1-84545-228-5, Massacre&f=false p. 61.
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  21. Gisela Welz,European Products: Making and Unmaking Heritage in Cyprus, Berghahn Books, 2015, ISBN 9781782388234 p. 53
  22. lobbyforcyprus (2017-08-14). "The terrible secrets of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus". Lobby for Cyprus blog. Retrieved 2020-06-11.
  23. Uludağ, Sevgül. "The story of Assia (Pasakoy) and Afanya (Gazikoy)". Hamamböcüleri Journal.
  24. "European Parliament resolution on mass graves of the missing persons of Ashia at Ornithi village in the occupied part of Cyprus (2015/2551(RSP))". European Parliament. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
  25. "Protest for the missing of Assia". Cyprus Mail. 10 December 2014. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
  26. "Angelique Chrisafis on finding her uncle's remains from Cyprus' 1974 ethinic killing". the Guardian. 2008-04-15. Retrieved 2022-02-27.
  27. Records: Volume 1, Part 1-Volume 3, Part 1, UNESCO, p. 319
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