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The University of Alicante Sub-Saharan Africa Women Researchers Programme Application Deadline: February 28th, 2023

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

The Leader Newspaper Alicante exhumation finds evidence of stolen baby The excavation work in grave X at the Municipal Cemetery of Alicante, which is searching for the remains of civilians executed during the Spanish Civil War, has discovered a possible case of a stolen baby, after finding tiny wooden box, prepared for individual burial containing a quantity of stones, without there being any human remains. The coffin is 12 centimetres high and would correspond to the burial of ...

The Leader Newspaper Civil war bomb shelters found in Novelda Novelda council is seeking a grant to carry out documentation on the 13 Civil War bomb shelters that have been found in the town. Last week the mayor, Fran Martínez, met by video conference with the Autonomous Secretary for Cooperation and Democratic Quality, Toñi Serna, and Iñaki Pérez Rico, General Director of Democratic Quality, where different topics were including grants from the Generalitat for work on the r...

The Leader Newspaper No success in search for Orihuela’s Franco graves   The work in the Orihuela cemetery, to locate the remains of the 17 people shot dead by Francoists a few months after the close of the Spanish Civil War, has ended. However, the Ministry is yet to decide whether to continue with the search for bodies using other techniques. Even though all the testimonies and explorations pointed to the same location, nothing has been found. Investigators are now to ...

The Leader Newspaper Albatera: from Francoist concentration camp to Visitor Centre The archaeological investigation finds human remains and the campsite, but does not locate any mass graves. Hunger, disease, torture and executions characterised the Francoist concentration camp in San Isidro close to Albatera, where 20,000 Republican prisoners were interned for almost seven months, between 6 April 1939 and 27 October of that year, many of them having previously occupied important...