Leo Papadopoulos

“Ethel Thompson[17] gives further testimony to the heartless abuse of small children being exiled: «During my stay in Amison (Samsunta), in early July 1921, the surrounding Greek villages were burnt down and the residents were displaced, including women and children... On approaching, we saw 300 children inside a circle formed by 20 gendarmes, who were hitting them with their swords. One mother who rushed in to save her child suffered the same fate and was thrown out. The children bent down to the ground or raised their little arms in order to avoid the blows. We couldn’t stand any more.» Turks, oh, you Turks, how can you sleep peacefully at night?”
― Theodora Ioannidou, The Holocaust of the Pontian Greeks: Still an open wound