Genocide of Muslims in Greece

Compiled By: Syed Ali Shahbaz
On September 23, 1821 AD, the massacre of Tripolitsa occurred in Greece, during which Greek Christians mercilessly killed 30,000 Muslim men, women and children, as well as the small Jewish minority. So bloodcurdling was the genocide that for three days, the Greeks slaughtered Turks including women and children during the revolt in the Ottoman Province of Yunanistan.
Within a few years all traces of four centuries of Turkish rule of Greece were obliterated through barbaric crimes by the Christians who destroyed mosques, converted many into churches and massacred or expelled ethnic Greek Muslims.
British historian of the Greek Revolt, W. Alison Phillips, has noted: \"…the other atrocities of Greeks paled before the awful scenes which followed the storming of Tripolitsa. For three days the miserable inhabitants were given over to lust and cruelty of a mob of savages. Neither gender nor age was spared. Women and children were tortured before being put to death. So great was the slaughter that from the gate to the citadel the hoofs of horses never touched the ground. At the end of two days, the wretched remnants of the Musalmans were deliberately collected, to the number of some two thousand souls, of every age and sex, but principally women and children, were led out to a ravine in the neighboring mountains and there butchered like cattle.\"
Another historian William St. Clair writes about the genocide of Muslims in Greece: \"Their arms and legs were cut off and they were slowly roasted over fires. Pregnant women were cut open, their heads cut off, and dogs\' heads stuck between their legs. From Friday to Sunday the air was filled with the sound of screams... One Greek boasted that he personally killed ninety people. The Jewish colony was systematically tortured... For weeks afterwards starving Turkish children running helplessly about the ruins were being cut down and shot at by exultant Greeks.\"