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The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Cyprus:
| Name | Date | Location | Deaths | Perpetrators | Notes |
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| Jewish massacre of Greeks.[1] | 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. |
| Ottoman massacre of Greeks in Nicosia.[2] | September 9, 1570 | Nicosia | 20,000 | Ottoman army | The number of casualties amounts to the whole city population at the time. |
| Ottoman massacre of Greeks in Famagusta [3] | August, 1571 | Famagusta | 6,000 | Ottoman army | |
| Ottoman Massacre of Greeks in Nicosia [4] | 1821 | mainly Nicosia | 470 | Ottoman Turks | |
| Massacre of Greeks in Kioneli[5] | June 12, 1958 | Kioneli | 8 | Turkish Cypriot militia | Greek Cypriots were massacred by militia in a cornfield near the village |
| Massacre in Agios Vasileios[6] | December 26, 1963 | Agios Vasileios | 21[7] | Greek Cypriot militia | Turkish Cypriots of the village were killed and buried in a mass grave |
| Massacre in Sysklipos[6] | 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 |
| Maratha, Santalaris and Aloda massacre | August 14, 1974 | Maratha, Santalaris and Aloda | 126 | Greek Cypriot militia | Almost all Turkish Cypriot inhabitants of the villages were killed and their bodies battered, see the relevant article |
| Tochni massacre[8] | August 14, 1974 | Tochni | 85 | Greek Cypriot militia | |
| Massacre in Sysklipos[6] | August 26, 1974 | Sysklipos | 21 | 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 |
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August, 1974 | Eptakomi | 12 | Turkish Cypriot militia and Turkish army | 12 Greek Cypriots found in a mass grave executed with their hands tied |
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August, 1974 | Asha, Cyprus | 70 | Turkish Cypriot militia and Turkish army | 70 Greek Cypriots found in a mass grave by UN (bullets in their skulls) |
References
- ^ JewishEncyclopedia.com - CYPRUS, Dio Cassius, lxviii. 32
- ^ US Library of Congress Federal Research Division,Library of Congress.
- ^ David S. T. Blackmore. Warfare on the Mediterranean in the Age of Sail: A History, 1571-1866. p. 56.
- ^ Alexander-Michael Hadjilyra. The Armenians of Cyprus. p. 14.
- ^ The Outbreak of Communal Strife, 1958 The Guardian, London.
- ^ a b c Uludağ, Sevgül. Stories from Agios Vasilios, Shilloura and Sysklipos… (published in Politis newspaper on 10 February 2013).
- ^ Purcell, Hugh Dominic. Cyprus, Praeger, 1969, p.327
- ^ 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.
