Eastern Massacre
In 1152, Count Raymond II was assassinated by the Hashashin. He was the first recorded non-Muslim victim of the sect and his death had serious repercussions:
The immediate reaction to Raymond's murder exposed a latent racism in the Franks, who massacred the eastern indigenous population of Tripoli regardless of their religion
The savage killings in the wake of Raymond's death did nothing to quell tensions between the Christian and Muslim populations in Tripoli.
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