Spain sets aside 665,000 euros to pay for exhumations at "Valley of the Fallen" memorial

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Source: Reuters

MADRID (Reuters) - The Spanish government approved on Tuesday a 665,000 euro ($780,000) fund for the exhumation of graves at "The Valley of the Fallen", where 30,000 victims of the Spanish Civil War and General Francisco Franco's dictatorship lie buried.

The left-wing coalition government promised state-funded exhumation of the bodies of victims of war and the dictatorship to help families bury their relatives in civilian cemeteries alongside their loved ones.

Those buried in the crypts and ossuaries at the Franco-era site include many from the losing Republican side whose bodies were moved there during Franco's rule without permission of their families. Some of those families have spent decades calling for the right to exhume remains from the site.

Government spokeswoman Maria Jesus Montero said the government had so far received more than 60 exhumation requests from relatives for the site.

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1. So glad

They are doing this. Too bad they cannot exhume the bodies of those executed in roadside ditches, as was the famous poet, Federico García Lorca. Lorca was executed because he was Gay.

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2. About time

I love Lorca's poems.

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3. These are crimes by a fascist dictatorship supported by Nazi Germany that must be

exposed.