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politics2 years ago•1 min saved

Spain Commences Exhumation of Civil War and Franco Victims

Forensic experts have begun the exhumation of 128 victims of Francisco Franco's forces buried anonymously in a mausoleum in Spain. The remains will be matched with DNA of surviving relatives. The exhumations are the first for victims under Spain's historical memory laws aimed at making reparations to Franco's victims and changing the way the dictatorship is viewed in Spain. The work is expected to take weeks, if not months, and will almost certainly not be finished before the July 23 elections that could see the right-wing Popular Party ousting the Socialist-led leftist coalition government.

via Newser|

#exhumations #francisco-franco #historical-memory-law

politics2 years ago•4 min saved

Spain to remove fascist party founder's remains from basilica.

The remains of José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falangist party, will be exhumed from the Valley of the Fallen mausoleum outside Madrid and reburied in a cemetery in the Spanish capital. The move follows the introduction of the Historical Memory law, which aims to bring justice, reparation, and dignity to the victims of the Spanish civil war and subsequent dictatorship. The basilica, partly built by political prisoners used as forced labor, is dedicated to the memory of all those killed on both sides in the 1936-39 conflict, but only two of the graves beneath the basilica’s 150-meter-high cross were ever marked: those of Franco and of Primo de Rivera.

via The Guardian|

#exhumation #fascism #franco