Mora and Tripolitsa Massacres During Greek Independence

It was a place. The Greeks who started the revolt, swore not to leave a single person on the island and slaughtered the local population of Muslims and Jews.

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Forty thousand Turks of Morea were brutally massacred by the Greeks.

The survivors had taken refuge south of the city in the Ottoman fortress of Tripolitsa.

After enduring attacks by Greek bands for five months, when the fortress fell, the Greeks left not a single person behind, massacring 30,000 Muslims as well as tens of thousands of Jews.

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British historian Walter Allison Phillips, in his book The War of Greek Independence, wrote the following about the Morea massacre: "For three days, the city's inhabitants were left to the evil and whim of a savage mob.

No distinction was made between age or sex.

Women and children were tortured before being killed.

After the Greek victory in the city, the road sides were filled with corpses. Women and children among the Muslim crowds were slaughtered like cattle in the nearby mountains."

The historian and author, a senior researcher at the British Institute of Studies, William St. Clair, in The Greeks Might Still Be Free, drew on the memoirs of foreign officers who served in Tripolice to summarize the Morea massacre as follows.

"Captives suspected of hiding their money were tortured. Their arms and legs were cut off, and they were slowly roasted over a fire.

Pregnant women's bellies were cut open, their heads were cut off, and dog heads were shoved between their legs.

From Friday to Sunday, the air was filled with screams.

One Greek boasted that he had killed ninety people.

The Jewish community was systematically tortured.

Turkish children starved for weeks ran helplessly amid the ruins when they were thrown to the ground by Greeks.

Then they were shot. The water wells were filled with corpses. The genocide in Morea only ended when there were no other Turks left to kill."