Cypriot intercommunal violence - Bloody Christmas
Time: Saturday Dec 21, 1963
Place: Cyprus
Details: An armed conflict was triggered after December 21, 1963, a period remembered by Turkish Cypriots as Bloody Christmas, when a Greek Cypriot policemen that had been called to help deal with a taxi driver refusing officers already on the scene access to check the identification documents of his customers, took out his gun upon arrival and shot and killed the taxi driver and his partner.
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