Spain rules Franco regime illegal in new memory law apnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from apnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
MADRID (AP) Spain’s lower house of parliament has approved a new historical memory law that declares illegal the regime of former dictator Gen. Francisco Franco and makes the central government responsible for the recovery of the bodies of tens of thousands of people missing from the Spanish Civil War and the dictatorship.
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During the Spanish Civil War and Franco's dictatorship, tens of thousands of people were forcibly disappeared. For decades, few people knew this and no one talked about it. Then, one man started to dig into his past to find his missing grandfather. What he discovered allowed him to break his own silence, and the silence of an entire country.