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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Menelaos Hadjicostis

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Canadian veterans remember how they eased tensions as un peacekeepers in ethnically split cyprus - Caught on Camera

Cyprus Canada UN Peacekeepers - (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

It was the first time that Canadian U.N. peacekeeper Michelle Angela Hamelin said she came up against the raw emotion of a people so exasperated with their country’s predicament.

Seared in her memory from her eight-month tour of duty on the ethnically divided Cyprus in 1986 was the fury of Greek Cypriot protesters demonstrating against the first-ever visit by a Turkish head of government to the island’s breakaway Turkish Cypriot north.

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