Thread by @turkic_facts

"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
#TripoliGenocide1821🩸

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,
#TripoliGenocide1821🩸

who had come to help the"Hellenic cause",the corpses of women whom they had raped, carved up and then thrown over the fortifications some time earlier.But these terrible scenes did not impress the volunteers; on the contrary, they shocked and disgusted them
#TripoliGenocide1821🩸

A German volunteer named Lieber describes how they felt hatred and disgust towards the GR rebels who were calling upon them to rape these women when they themselves had already sexually assaulted them

F. Lieber: Tagebuch meines Aufenthaltes in Griechenland
#TripoliGenocide1821🩸