Nationalism, Militarism and Masculinity in Post-Conflict Cyprus by Stratis Andreas Efthymiou

Author:Stratis Andreas Efthymiou
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9783030147020
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

The Explosion of the Naval Base in Mari

The issue of the highly militarized ‘nation-in-arms’ committed to defending the GC community, investing money, time and trust in the army, was a boiling cauldron which imploded when the naval base in Mari exploded on 11 July 2011. 3 The incident occurred when 98 containers of explosives that had been stored for some time in the sun on the naval base self-detonated.

As a result of the explosion, 12 Cypriot soldiers, officers and civilians were killed and 62 people were wounded. It was the worst peacetime military accident ever recorded in Cyprus and ranked as the fifth-largest non-nuclear human-induced explosion in history. The political leadership faced thousands of Cypriots protesting and demanding the President’s resignation. Pantelides (2011) wrote the following in an article in the Cyprus Mail:The public, which has been able to forget numerous scandals in the past, has been demanding justice ever since the blast. It would appear that the Mari tragedy has exposed a deeply flawed system where we place people in power only to have them deny that their position comes with responsibility.

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