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"Soon a stench began to hang over the towns in the Peloponnese, emitting from the rotting headless corpses of the Muslims; pariah dogs and vultures were devouring the bodies; the water-wells were polluted and the plague began to raise its ugly head." ##TripoliGenocide1821🩸 
All over the place emaciated and half-naked young Muslim girls and boys were groaning.Meanwhile the Greeks of Navarino were relating with pride the terrible massacres that had taken place there.
E.V.Byern:Bilder aus Griechenland und der Levant,Berlin 1833
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E.V.Byern:Bilder aus Griechenland und der Levant,Berlin 1833
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One of them was boasting that he had killed eighteen Turks; another one was relating how he had stabbed to death nine women and children in their beds. These merciless killers were, with pride, showing to the European volunteers,
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The Turkish Genocide of the Greeks in the Peloponnese begins...
When the Metropolitan began to return to Patras, together with the other bishops, they were accompanied by an ever-growing rabble of people armed with scythes, clubs and slings.
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When the Metropolitan began to return to Patras, together with the other bishops, they were accompanied by an ever-growing rabble of people armed with scythes, clubs and slings.
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The bishops and priests, wherever they went, exhorted their parishioners to exterminnate "the infidel Muslims". Brigand klepths and guards of remote places known as armatoli came down from the mountains and began to ravage Turkish settlements.
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Control soon passed out of the hands of the leaders, and the whole country was overrun by bands of armed hooligans, killing and murdering.
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