The Divided Island brings the ‘Cyprus problem’ back into focus, revealing untold stories and unravelling the intrica | dG1faEt5ZFJmc2p0NVk
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00:00There was no difference at all, we were all siblings.
00:17We used to share things together, it was a really nice feeling, we were very close.
00:23We were going to join Cyprus with Chris.
00:27These words would be like a cold shower for the Turkish people.
00:35Suddenly the division started coming.
00:39We started getting logos and either divide the island or we will all die.
00:49Unless the present flames are quenched, and quenched quickly, they will spread.
00:56Fanned by these hot fires of fear.
01:00If that happens, our deliberations will not be an inquiry, they will be an autopsy.
01:07Every 20th July I mourn my brother and those that they lost their life for Cyprus.
01:16I think that people that have committed atrocities on both sides need to be held to account.
01:20I think that's fundamentally important to me.
01:23The British role in the Cyprus issue has a lot to answer for.
01:29Generational trauma is real and profound in so many ways and on so many levels.
01:38When you're talking about frozen conflict, frozen means that it can melt anytime as well.
01:43The fact that we are not dying at the moment is something that we are lucky about,
01:50but it should not make us forget in an area surrounded by fire and tears and blood,
01:58should remind us that this is a very dangerous situation.
02:04The Republic of Cyprus educational system promotes a nationalistic outlook to it.
02:10So it is as if it kind of prepares people to join a land.
02:16Key message that we would like to give is that we should not stay silent in the face of extremism.
02:24It's not a dishonouring of your ancestors that were lost,
02:27it is the greatest honouring of their loss to not allow one more drop of blood to be spilled.
02:35Unless it is self-defence, war is suicide.