Book contents
- The Long Search for Peace
- The Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post–Cold War Operations
- The Long Search for Peace
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Maps
- Preface
- Glossary
- Part 1 Actor and observer
- Part 2 New ambitions
- 16 The new internationalists
- 17 A ‘lop-sided’ umpire
- 18 Snow Goose and the Milk Run
- 19 An island divided
- 20 Desert sortie
- 21 On the Golan
- 22 Witnesses to civil war
- 23 Fumbling the political football
- 24 The tribe that lost its head
- 25 Into Africa
- 26 A dangerous but crucial mission
- 27 The healing touch
- 28 ‘The only show in town’
- Part 3 Carrying on
- Conclusion
- Book part
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
19 - An island divided
Austcivpol in Cyprus, 1974–76
from Part 2 - New ambitions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 September 2019
- The Long Search for Peace
- The Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post–Cold War Operations
- The Long Search for Peace
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Maps
- Preface
- Glossary
- Part 1 Actor and observer
- Part 2 New ambitions
- 16 The new internationalists
- 17 A ‘lop-sided’ umpire
- 18 Snow Goose and the Milk Run
- 19 An island divided
- 20 Desert sortie
- 21 On the Golan
- 22 Witnesses to civil war
- 23 Fumbling the political football
- 24 The tribe that lost its head
- 25 Into Africa
- 26 A dangerous but crucial mission
- 27 The healing touch
- 28 ‘The only show in town’
- Part 3 Carrying on
- Conclusion
- Book part
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
Summary
Life was rather quiet for the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (Unficyp) in early 1974. The high levels of intercommunal violence that defined its establishment a decade earlier had largely receded to a relatively peaceful coexistence between Greek and Turkish Cypriots. Part of Unficyp’s civilian police component since 1964, the Australian civilian police – known as Austcivpol – with its headquarters in Limassol, smaller substations at Ktima and Polis, and men attached to Unficyp headquarters in Nicosia, had settled into a daily routine of village patrols and liaising with local police in the Limassol Zone, their south-western portion of the island.
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- The Long Search for PeaceObserver Missions and Beyond, 1947–2006, pp. 482 - 504Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019