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Historians estimate that about 114,000 people lie in mass graves scattered across Spain massacred by supporters of Franco during or after the civil war.

TWO-THIRDS of identified mass graves in the Valencian Community containing executed victims during General Franco's regime have been exhumed. Figures

Madrid, Dec 30 (EFE).- Spain’s left-wing coalition government has said it will withdraw police decorations awarded to officers who were involved in state repression under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. Interior minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska’s decision is based on the new Law of Democratic Memory, which came into force in October, the ministry said. General Francisco …

Almost five decades after the death of Spain's right-wing dictator Francisco Franco, the country is making a fresh attempt to offer justice to his victims. A new Democratic Memory law, which came into…

AROUND a hundred people could be fined following a Madrid gathering on Sunday commemorating the anniversary of the 1975 death of dictator General

‘Democratic Memory Laws’ bring some relief to families of General Franco’s victims, but much needs to be done, they say.

Official events focussing attention on fascist war criminals like Queipo are bound up with the imperialist powers’ drive to a new world war and police-state rule at home.

THE REMAINS of a Franco-era general were removed from the Macarena basilica in Seville last night, an exhumation that was carried out as part of the

Spain on Monday celebrated for the first time a day "in memory of and in homage to the victims of the military coup, the war, and the dictatorship" established by the new Democratic Memory Law. The law came into force in recent days. © ANSA

Spain has 'paid a high price for freedom' and should 'never take it for granted,' says Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez - Anadolu Agency