Spain to begin exhumation of 128 Civil War victims from burial complex – media
Madrid, SpainReuters Forensic scientists will on Monday begin the exhumation of 128 victims of the Spanish Civil War from a vast burial complex near Madrid, El Pais newspaper reported. It will be the first exhumation of its kind involving people whose bodies were moved from elsewhere after the 1936-1939 war and reburied without their families’ […]
Spain to exhume fascist movement founder’s body from Madrid mausoleum
Madrid, Spain Reuters Spain on Monday will dig up the body of Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the fascist Falange movement that supported the Francoist regime, and remove it from a mausoleum carved into a mountainside near Madrid. Primo de Rivera’s exhumation, which follows the 2019 removal of the remains of dictator Francisco […]
ESSAY: EXHUMATION OF FRANCO’S REMAINS IS A CHANCE FOR SPAIN TO REST IN PEACE
In an article first published on The Conversation, UK academic FEDERICO LÓPEZ-TERRA provides some context for this week’s exumation and reburial of the remains of Spanish dicatator Francisco Franco…