Tag: mass graves
Two-thirds of mass graves containing Franco era victims have been exhumed in Spain’s Valencia region
TWO-THIRDS of identified mass graves in the Valencian Community containing executed victims during General Franco's regime have been exhumed.
Figures published on a new regional...
Dozens of Spanish Civil War victims found in mass graves in northern Spain
THE grim task of exhuming, identifying and reburying dozens of victims of the Spanish Civil War has started after two mass graves were found.
Archaeologists...
Never forgotten: Exhumations to finally close chapter on civil war tragedy in Spain’s Granada
THE remains of over 300 people executed without trial then tossed into mass graves are to finally be exhumed.
The victims from Granada include teachers,...
A NATION DIVIDED: Spain’s bloody past is still causing divisions today
IMAGINE if, rather than losing the Second World War and committing suicide in Berlin, Adolf Hitler had successfully invaded the British Isles and ruled...
Valencian government moves to exhume 500 mass graves scattered across the Community following the Spanish Civil War
A YOUNG girl shot and killed for holding a pamphlet in Dolores, a professor dispatched without prior trial in Alicante - these are the...
Andalucia to look for missing victims of Franco
Local government to step up search for estimated 60,000 missing bodies in southern Spain