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Nearly 200 Franco-era victims found in mass graves
• Remains of 185 men and women killed by Franco-era forces found in Valladolid • Forensic team says additional mass graves may…
‘Franquista’ generals Mola, Sanjurjo to be exhumed
• Pamplona to remove remains of 1936 military coup plotters from monument • Move by city government gets backing from regional parliament…
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Franco victims denied justice, says Baltasar Garzón
• Ex-judge, human-rights lawyer says Spain’s courts hostile to Franco victims • Garzón says Supreme Court part of efforts to silence dictatorship’s…
Madrid panel wants Franco-era honors rescinded
• Commission targets 8 individuals, 5 groups associated with Franco regime • Falange, JONS and military to lose ‘Medal of Honour’, ‘Favourite…
Socialists seek compensation for Nazi camp victims
• Catalan Socialists propose to reform Spain’s 2007 Historical Memory Law • Measure would pay 135,000 euros each to German camp victims…
Battle of Ebro monolith to get makeover in Tortosa
• Local citizens vote to ‘recontextualise’, rather than remove monument • Dictator’s ‘Mayor in Perpetuity’ honor revoked by vote of municipal council…
Catalans move to rescind Franco-era court martials
• Legislation introduced to anul verdicts against regime’s political opponents • 100,000 court martials, more than 4,400 executions in Catalonia under Franco…
Excavation team begins Spain’s first court-ordered exhumation of Franco-era mass grave in Guadalajara
• Timoteo Mendieta believed buried at a 1939 mass gravesite in Guadalajara • It took an Argentine court order and the cooperation…
Madrid plan to drop Franquista street names stalls, lawsuit threat against towns with Franco-era names
• Towns with names honoring Franco & Nationalist generals come under fire • The ill-timed release of a short-list of Madrid streets…