Spain Commences Exhumation of 128 Civil War Victims from Franco Mausoleum.

Forensic scientists have started exhuming the remains of 128 victims of the Spanish Civil War from the mausoleum of General Francisco Franco near Madrid. The exhumation is the first involving people whose bodies were moved from other parts of Spain after the 1936-1939 war and reburied without their families' consent in a monument built by Franco in the Valley of Cuelgamuros. The move is likely to make Franco's four-decade dictatorship, which still divides Spanish society, a topic of passionate discussion as Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez seeks reelection.