Exile
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As a consequence, he was exiled to the island of Réunion (a French territory in the Indian Ocean) from 1926 to 1947, where he was "given a comfortable estate and generous annual subsidiary". In 1947, Abd el-Krim was given permission to live in the south of France, after being released for health concerns, he however succeeded in gaining asylum in Egypt instead, where he presided over the Liberation Committee for the Maghreb, and where he died in 1963, just after seeing his hopes of a Maghreb independent of colonial powers completed by the independence of Algeria.
Abdelkrim went as a prisoner of war, asking that civilians be spared. The colonial powers refused so that such an uprising would be punished. In 1926 aircraft fitted with mustard gas bombed whole villages, making Moroccan Rif among the first populations of civilians gassed heavily in history, alongside the Iraqi Kurds gassed by the British. It is estimated that there were over 150 000 deaths during the calendar years 1925-1926.
The Association of Human Rights of the Mediterranean states that eight cases of laryngeal cancer in ten are located in Morocco in the Rif province. An international report establishes a causal relationship between the spread of this deadly disease and mustard (mustard gas) used by the Spanish colonial forces for the suppression of resistance in the Rif from 1923. More than 150,000 people had been subjected to the direct use of mustard gas by the French army and the Spanish army, mainly in the area of Nador. So 92,254 people have been identified by the health services of deaths by cause of the indirect effect of the use of mustard gas. Today, 90% of the population of the village of Tiguergourt "in Morocco, continue to die because of this disease. Moroccan NGOs have appealed to the United Nations to establish responsibility for the use of gas against civilian populations, the responsibilities have been established for war crimes and crimes against humanity against Lyautey), Pétain, and Primo de Rivera.
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“No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.”
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“Ha, banishment? Be merciful, say “death”;
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“The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is just as complex, often ambivalent, and in general it is understood completely only when it is broken: by exile or emigration in the case of one’s country, by retirement in the case of a trade or profession.”
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