The exchange acknowledges killings by Greek insurgents without treating the violence as equal in scale. Ottoman institutions - police, records, law, and open coercive power - made systematic retaliation possible. A state could identify, reach, and punish far more people than a dispersed independence movement. The distinction is therefore about capacity and magnitude, not a claim that violence occurred on only one side.
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State capacity magnified violence in the Greek revolt
A discussion of atrocities distinguishes violence on both sides from the Ottoman state's much greater capacity for organized retaliation.