Students in South Cyprus are systematically encouraged by Greek Cypriot authorities to take part in demonstrations against the TRNC along the borders. Schools officially close in order to allow children to participate and teachers along with officials typically make speeches which incite children to acts of violence and hatred. On many occasions teenager students have clashed with UNFICYP personnel inside the buffer-zone. They have chanted anti-Turkish slogans and thrown rocks etc. towards the North.

A recently published report on education in 1997 has revealed that: The primary aim of education in South Cyprus is to teach children not to forget the "occupation". One educational programme is entitled "I get to know, I do not forget, I struggle against the occupation".

The Greek Cypriot government's programme to remember the "invasion" is the primary objective in schools. The report states that:
"The programme formed the spine of militancy in schools and the route of the people of Cyprus for achieving its visions."

"The main target is to keep alive the memory of our land still under occupation, to foster and strengthen optimism, confidence and militancy for freedom and return to our fatherland."

Greek Cypriot authorities described the aim of the programme as educating children to "wake up and see Pentadactylos (mountain-range in Northern Cyprus) and not to forget about their villages in the occupied areas."

Some examples of text books used in Junior High Schools in South Cyprus which contain elements inciting enmity are given below:

"Cyprus Geography", Nicosia, 1991, Min. of Education Portrays Cyprus as an Hellenic island. Urges struggle to liberate the "occupied territories." There is no mention of the Turkish population on the island. One photograph depicts "enslaved youth" in 1974. Underneath it says "the population of Greeks has dropped following the Turkish occupation resulting in 5000 dead and 1619 missing." (p.24)

Pentadactylos is portrayed as a symbol of the "struggle to return home."

"It is our primary responsibility to struggle with determination and vigour in order to remove the danger threatening our Pentadactylos and other territories under occupation. Only then Pentadactylos will breathe freely and embrace its own folk." (p.42)

"Byzantine Period-Cyprus History", Nicosia, 1991, Min. of Education Designed to portray Cyprus as an Hellenistic island populated by Cypriots of Christian origin.