This year marks the 100th anniversary of one of the most terrible and bloodiest colonial crimes in history — one which still has not been recognised nor whose people have ever been compensated for. We are talking about Spain's chemical campaign over the Moroccan Rif (a mountain region in the country's north-east) which it once colonised, and which lasted from 1923 to 1927.
After a rebellion led by Riffian leader Abdelkrim Al-Khattabi concluded in an overwhelming victory for the Amazigh ...
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Bianca Carrera is a freelance writer and analyst specialising in the Middle Eastern and North Africa, environmental matters, and migration at Sciences Po Paris. She has written for The New Arab, Al Jazeera, Oxfam Intermón, elDiario.es, and others.