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named him ambassador 'as a gesture of goodwill towards the
Spanish State'. He lived quietly at the Moroccan Embassy in Madrid until 1970, when he returned to Morocco having been named Minister of State. In November that year, he was promoted to the rank of Field Marshal. He held the post of Minister
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wrote that among the
Spanish Republican prisoners were two young militia women that Mizzian personally interrogated, after which he handed them over to his men. When Whitaker expressed his concern about the fate of the girls he "attended horrified in helpless anger" when Meziane stated that the two
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Moroccan government until March 1975, when he fell gravely ill and was flown to Madrid to be treated. He died at the Air Force Hospital in Madrid in May that year, and his remains were later flown back to Morocco for burial in his home country.
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in
October 1938, taking 19 fortified enemy positions, killing 1,500 republican troops and taking 1,000 prisoners. Shortly thereafter El Mizzian moved on with his troops to spearhead the
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troops were not random, but were part of a calculated plan of the
Francoist military machine to allow these shock troops to spread fear among Republicans in order to demoralize them.
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on 27 September 1936, Mizzian went with his troops to the military hospital and killed over 200 wounded
Republican militia men in their beds, allegedly as a revenge for the
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following his father's death. After graduating as a junior officer
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and is the only person to have ever held that title in the
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El Ghadiri, Mustapha (2005). "Meziane (the Marshal-)". In
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Perpetrators of political repression in Francoist Spain
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