BenIreland published Operation Tosca: Remembering a time when the bullets flew

Bullet holes pepper the side of most of the buildings you see on a standard patrol of Cyprus's Green Line: remnants of a war that remains politically unfinished.The last victim of live gunfire – a Cypriot hunter unattached to either side – lost his life in 2004.But tension is still high on an everyday patrol, when members of Midlands regiment the Mercians make their way across various parts of the 192km "buffer zone" between the Greeks and Turks."There are three types of..