At Andarax castilian forces massacred 3000 prisoners and blew up a mosque sheltering refugees

Evidence

It was actually troops under the command of Luis de Beaumont, constable of Navarre on the other (eastern) front, who were involved in what became the most infamous incidents of the whole campaign: the slaughter of the 3,000 prisoners taken at Andarax and the blowing up of a nearby mosque with 600 refugees, women and children, inside. Although this all took place in Queen Isabella’s realms, Ferdinand’s reputation in the world at large suffered as well when the brutality of this campaign of repression became known. (An Arabic lament on the subject of the atrocities was to cause a considerable impact as far away as Istanbul.) — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 212

Categorization

• XREF: The mosque-burning of civilians echoes the Lindow Man material in ‘On Sacrifice’ and the cruelty patterns seen throughout the conquest; also connects to how atrocity stories travel through Arabic poetry into Ottoman public opinion, a propaganda dynamic worth noting.
• SEED: An essay angle: how atrocity narratives (the Arabic lament reaching Istanbul) functioned as pre-modern international news—the first long-range propaganda war over a massacre, centuries before modern media.