Anarchist suicide bombers - Spanish Civil War
Jul 26 2007
Quite a salacious thread title... may be good for google searches.
But randomly looking through the net I found this article from Time magazine about the civil war which mentions two anarchists who blew themselves up to take a fascist outpost
I can't even imagine that type of dedication/bravery/i don't know what it would take to do something like that. So here it is for reference. I'm going to stick in the library as well.
Quote:
The Bakunin battalion made up entirely of dockworkers from Barcelona, broke into Huesca at nine in the morning, but was checked for four hours by 26 machine-guns installed on a church roof and belfry, which vomited livid death into the front ranks of the Popular Frontists as they entered the main square. Shortly after noon two Anarchists, Amadeo Salvan and Fernández Ubarri, loaded themselves with sacks of dynamite weighing 40 lbs. each, and made a dash for the church, each with a split fuse held in one hand and a lighted cigaret in the other. Fernandez Ubarri was hit, for he was seen to fall twice; nevertheless he crawled up to the church wall. Half a minute later both charges went off with a sharp crack, tearing the two volunteers limb from limb. This was immediately followed by a dull, heavy roar as one wall of the church collapsed inward in a tornado of dust and pulverized masonry, bringing the roof partly down. Some of the defenders were miraculously unhurt, but all those living were captured.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,847809,00.html?iid=chix-sphere
Jul 27 2007
#2
i always thought the answer was tamils, as in rajiv ghandi
Jul 27 2007
#3
if only suicide bombings were relegated to taking out fascist military outposts afterwards, huh!
Jul 27 2007
#4
Actually, if you count the Bible as a credidle historical source, the first suicide attack was carried out be Samson against the philistines.
Jul 28 2007
#5
... and if you don't, then suicide attacks was respected, if not appreciated, by the authors of the book of Judges (which is AFAICR are supposed to have worked in the late 1st temple period; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentary_hypothesis ). Probably there are some similar myths in other religions canons.
Jul 29 2007
#6
Well, fair play to 'em. Some artist type should make a statue called "The Unknown Anarchist." A memorial, like.
Mm, I'd heard about this before, mostly in the context of random trivia questions of "Who invented suicide bombing?" and then everyone gasps in surprise as the answer is revealed not to be "terrorist muslims" or "irish nationalists" but anarchists.
Good to see a little more detail