in the middle of the city. In the morning, the prisoners were brought in batches of five or six and made to stand facing the trench. One man would chop the head off so that it landed in the trench and another would push the headless body. This murderous frenzy continued throughout the day till it was time to light the evening lanterns, and it finally ended in a heap of seven hundred heads and bodies with blood flowing like a stream. The soldiers that participated in the siege divided the women and children among themselves. Rihana, a twenty-two-year-old woman, was the most beautiful. The
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