Cypriot onslaught on them. The following example of the people who are to benefit from the certificates in question may be helpful in evaluating the situation. On 20 June 1977, 7he Times of London reported the following: ··of the 45 widows who live in Voni. a former Greek village now called Taskent that snuggles on the hot mountainside north-east of Nicosia. few really believe that their husbands-and in some cases their brothers or sons as well-could still be alive. On 14 August 1974. their menfolk. 73 of them in all. were taken from the southern Cypriot village of Tokhni by soldiers of the Greek Cyp­ riot National Guard and imprisoned in a local school. Next day-while. the Turkish army was storming across northern Cyprus-the men were loaded into two buses under Greek mili­ tary escort and driven away. Their wives have not seen them since. '"There are no memorials to thnse missing Turkish Cypriots. although the village of Voni is in itself a kind of sad monument to them. The survivors of Tokhni were transplanted at their own wish to Voni in 1975. and almost every house contains a widow or an orphan or a mother without sons:· The above-mentioned case is only one of the examples of Greek barbarism inflicted upon the Turkish c1m1munity that. fur 11 years. from 1963 to 1974. was a virtual hostage in Greek hands. denied every human right, including those of life. work and communi­ cation. Road blocks prevented them from escaping and coming to the north but, in spite of thi:i. these people trekked their way by the thousands to the north over the mountains. facing death and arrest. humiliation and ,1ssault in order to reach the freedom and security denied to them for 11 years. Thus. 65.(K)0 Turkish Cypriots 
**Analysis**
The text appears to be a historical account of the treatment of Turkish Cypriots by the Greek Cypriot National Guard during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974. The text describes the abduction of Turkish Cypriots from the village of Tokhni and their subsequent disappearance. The text also mentions the widespread suffering and human rights violations inflicted upon the Turkish Cypriot community by the Greek Cypriot authorities.

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