A Spanish minister said he would use poison gas 'with true joy' against indigenous peoples.
This episode of Cauldron's 'War A to Z' series covers Abd el-Krim, the Rifian guerrilla leader who inflicted a shocking defeat on the Spanish army at the Battle of Annual in 1921. It details his decades-long fight against Spanish and French colonial forces in Morocco, the brutal tactics used by both sides including poison gas, and how this conflict contributed to the fall of the Spanish monarchy and the rise of Franco.
