Poison Gas in Warfare – Series
This GN-STAT report describes select examples of the usage of poison gas in warfare. The full report can be downloaded below.
There report covers
- Mustard Gas in WWI
- Spain’s chemical weapons use in Morocco
- Poison gas in Italy’s war against the former Abyssinia
- Chlorine gas in the so-called Dersim massacre
- Chemical warfare agents in the Sino-Japanese war
- Gaddafi’s production of poison gas in Libya
- Mass murder of Kurds in Iraq in 1988 using toxic weapons
- Poison gas in the Syrian civil war
- Poison gas beyond use in war against political opponents
The first part of the series is also available to download below separately and deals with the use of German-made poisonous gas in Spain’s colonial war against the Rifians (berber) people of Morocco in the 1920s.
Artwork by Haubi Haubner
Pictured above: Abd El-Karim (1882/3 – 1963), president of the Rif Republic and a leader of the rebellion of the Rifian people against the Spanish colonization of Morrocco/the Rif Republic.
08.1 Chemical Weapons in Spain’s War in Morrocco
(1921-1927)
On 27 November 1912, a Franco-Spanish treaty granted Spain the north of Morocco on the Mediterranean with the Rif Mountains as a protectorate. When the Spanish military attempted to take increasing possession of this area from 1921 onwards, the Berber resistance began under the leadership of Abd-el-Krim. At the Battle of Annual on 22 July 1921, over 13,000 Spanish soldiers died fighting against the Rifkabyles, who were waging guerrilla warfare. Abd-el-Krim founded the Islamic Rif Republic in northern Morocco in 1923.
Spain now used chemical warfare agents, especially poison gas, on a massive scale against the population of the Rif. Spain had imported the poison gas from Germany.
By Jürgen Neitzert – original in German
Download the full version or summaries in multiple languages below.
Graphic: Public Domain, WikimediaCommons
