“Catalan separatists out to appease Berber jugulators”

At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, thousands of mountain infantry- and artillerymen from various Catalan camps–Bruch Barracks (Barcelona), Sant Climent de Sescebes (Girona), etc–died on battlefields, and it is known that at least 2000 of these were murdered, jugulated and chopped up by Rif tribesmen.

In 1909 Catalan relief troops had their throats cut 10 km from Melilla [now a Spanish enclave in Morocco]. On July 22, 1921 General Silvestre’s column of 1000 soldiers was defeated in Izzumar and all had their throats cut by Rif troops. On July 25, Aráujo surrendered and all 650 soldiers were murdered and were jugulated in Igar by Rif troops. On July 28, General Navarro was surrounded and murdered by riffraff [sadly this is a false etymology; neither is street Arab what it seems, and the jury’s still out on the Arab street] in Mount Arruit barracks along with 2114 soldiers and 1100 civilians and nuns. In August of the same year the position held on Mount Arruit surrendered under the guarantee that the lives of the 3000 Spaniards would be respected, but when the fortress doors were opened, the Rifeños jugulated, murdered and chopped up more than 3000 Spaniards [evidently others had crept in for the party], raped all the women and nailed the corpses to the gates.

In the mid-20th century–in March 1949, to be specific–before Moroccan independence, the military authorities ordered that the victims of Mount Arruit be disinterred, and on August 5 troops of the 10th regiment of sappers began the exhumation of 2996 skulls (jugulated years before) and transferred them to 16 mass graves in Melilla cemetery, where today one can still see thousands of tombs with Catalan and Spanish names.

[We should not allow] the memory of thousands of Catalan and Spanish jugulated in Africa by Moroccan troops to be dishonoured now. All that ERC hopes to achieve with this type of proposal is to attract the future vote of the thousands of Berbers now living in Catalonia.

1639: The Catalans have taken a place called Pià [?], making war with such ferocity that they jugulated more than 500 French, not wishing to take a single prisoner.
1641: Otrosí says that in Igualada the Catalans jugulated 200 French.
1642: French and Catalans have sacked and burnt Tamarite de Litera and 30 other places with fury, jugulating without distinction men, women, children, priests and friars, demolishing churches without sparing sacred things with the strangest cruelty ever seen, even throwing infants into the rivers.