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The coup d'état and dictatorship of Gen. Francisco Franco (1936-1975) left a trail of deaths throughout Spain, currently being one of the countries with the highest number of disappeared people in the world. Former Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon estimates that 114,226 missing persons, in the 1936-1951 period, could be in mass graves around the country. All of them killed during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and also after the end of the armed conflict.
In 2000, after six decades of forced silence, a group of archaeologists and forensics opened a mass grave for the first time, using scientific methods for the exhumation and identification of bone remains, in the small village of Priaranza del Bierzo, north of Spain. Several associations have emerged since that date, which are financed mainly by their members and private donations, to carry out these exhumation tasks, allowing children and grandchildren to find their relatives.
At the moment, none of the Spanish governments, which have been in power after the death of dictator Francisco Franco (1975), have created a Truth Commission. According to the renowned Spanish forensic anthropologist, Paco Etxeberria, only about 9,000 victims of Francoism have been recovered until 2020.
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WORK IN PROGRESS
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The coup d'état and dictatorship of Gen. Francisco Franco (1936-1975) left a trail of deaths throughout Spain, currently being one of the countries with the highest number of disappeared people in the world. Former Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon estimates that 114,226 missing persons, in the 1936-1951 period, could be in mass graves around the country. All of them killed during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and also after the end of the armed conflict.
In 2000, after six decades of forced silence, a group of archaeologists and forensics opened a mass grave for the first time, using scientific methods for the exhumation and identification of bone remains, in the small village of Priaranza del Bierzo, north of Spain. Several associations have emerged since that date, which are financed mainly by their members and private donations, to carry out these exhumation tasks, allowing children and grandchildren to find their relatives.
At the moment, none of the Spanish governments, which have been in power after the death of dictator Francisco Franco (1975), have created a Truth Commission. According to the renowned Spanish forensic anthropologist, Paco Etxeberria, only about 9,000 victims of Francoism have been recovered until 2020.
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WORK IN PROGRESS