Spanish Civil War bodies exhumed

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Source: BBC News

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Spanish Civil War bodies exhumed

By Danny Wood
BBC News, Madrid

Seven bodies have been removed from Spanish Civil War graves in the first court-ordered exhumation.

The remains were transferred from two mass graves in the cemetery of Santa Marta village to a medical lab for official identification.

Archaeologists recovered the remains, belonging to men executed by supporters of Gen Francisco Franco in 1936.

This could be the first of thousands of official exhumations that have been the focus of a lengthy legal wrangle.

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Last October, High Court Judge Baltasar Garzon announced that mass exhumations could begin - including the grave where poet Federico Garcia Lorca is thought to be buried.

Judge Garzon named Gen Franco and more than 30 members of his regime as instigators of alleged crimes against humanity.

But the public prosecutor argued that these crimes could not be examined, because of Spain's Amnesty Law that prevents any criminal investigation into the Franco years.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8098443.stm

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Opus Dei was founded in Franco's Spain. Franco supported Hitler and Mussolini.

[Selatius]

1. It was Hitler who supported Franco. He gave Franco modern weapons, including the ME 109 fighter.

The Massacre at Guernica was the result of indiscriminate bombing by ME 109s against the city. Civilians died with the rest of the resistance there.

[burrowowl]

2. K&R

Long the Lincoln Brigade and damn John Paul II for canonizing the scumbag founder of Opus Dei!
John XXIII didn't trust Opus Dei and he was right not to.

[aquart]

3. There are so few of the Lincoln Brigade left.

But I was there for their 40th reunion and they filled the ballroom of the Statler Hilton that night.