HISTORY OF CHIOS MASSACRE BY GREEKS
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HISTORY OF CHIOS MASSACRE
One of history's most tragic and comprehensive acts of genocide takes place on
the island of Chios in 1821. The Greek Rebellion begins in 1821. During the
Massacres, around 30,000 islanders are hanged, butchered, starved or tortured
to death. Untold thousands more are raped, deported and enslaved. The Greek
word katastrofi – also meaning 'destruction' and 'ruin' – is usually used to
describe these events. The island itself is devastated and the few survivors
disperse throughout Europe in what is now known as the Chios Diaspora.
The insurrection that led to Greek Rebellion was mounting throughout what was
soon to become the new state of Greece. But the relatively large and fabulously
prosperous island of Chios, lying just off the Turkish coast, was a prize the
Ottomans could under no circumstances afford to lose. Chios and its Greek
population was arguably the richest shipping and trading centre in the eastern
Mediterranean. For 2000 years its merchants and ship-owners had dominated trade
and diplomacy throughout the Black Sea, the Aegean and the Mediterranean. Wisely,
the Ottomans had allowed Chios unique and almost complete control over its own
affairs. Chian trade and the curious fact that the immensely valuable 'mastic'
plant was harvested only in Chios, were of great value to the Sultan. The
cosmopolitan Chians were also in any case very prominent in Constantinople.
Chios Map
A museum in SPETSE island bears the name of Lady Bouboulina, who was one of the
leading persons in the Greek Rebellion. The museum has distributed a booklet
telling how Greeks massacred 30,000 Turks in Tripoli on 11th September 1821. In
the globalizing world, It should be the duty of Human Rights defenders to put
that massacre of 30,000 innocent Turks onto agenda.
On the 11th September 1821 Tripoli, which is the capital of Peloponnese and thus
the headquarters of the Turkish pasha ruling the area, fell to the surrounding
Greek forces. The fall of the city was followed by a massacre that went on for
three days and nights. Thirty thousand dead filled streets and lanes, and the
blood flowed in rivers.
Bouboulina, Laskarina (1771 - 1825)
She was the daughter of a sea captain from the island of Spetses. She married
twice and had six children. Widowed for a second time at the age of 50, when the
Greek Rebellion broke out, Bouboulina devoted her life and wealth to its purpose.
She had four ships equipped for the war and maintained a small land army. She
herself took part in the naval blockade of Naupila, provoking many towns controlled
by the Turks. In Tripoli, after a terrible massacre, she was the first to enter the
besieged town on horseback. She used to ride in the countryside provoking armed
resistance. She died from a stray bullet during an argument with a relative over
a family vendetta.
Bouboulina attacking the fortress o Nafplion. Old oil-painting.
Roman
faulty nutter belongs to a turkish fascistic propaganda gang that spreads
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His turkish propaganda is based on fascistic Kemalist revisionism. The
articles he posts are mostly made up by "historians" paid by the turkish
fascistic state. They represent turkey's known habit of distorting
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