Wednesday, 18 July 2007

Ghost of Franco Haunts Spain as Families Open Civil War-Era Mass Graves

(Bloomberg) -- Next to a mass grave in Malaga,
Spain, Juliana Sanchez watches an archeologist scrape dirt from a
broken skull and wonders if this might be her father.

``I can't leave,'' she says of the site, where investigators
found the remains of children and babies among 220 bodies crammed
into a pit by fascist dictator Francisco Franco's death squads.
``I'm too anxious to know if some paper, some trace could be
found to show that one of them is my father.''


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