Nicosia - The Cyprus government announced yesterday that the identities of eight people had been established from bodies exhumed since June during excavations at two cemeteries on the outskirts of the capital, writes Michael Jansen.
The bodies were buried in multiple graves during the 1974 coup mounted against President Makarios by the Greek junta and the subsequent Turkish invasion. Three of those identified were civilians who died of natural causes, and four were soldiers who died of wounds sustained during the coup and invasion.