La historia en breve

On October 31, 2007, the Congress of Deputies of Spain approved the Law on Historical Memory, "by which recognize and extend rights and establishing measures for those who suffered persecution or violence during the Civil War and Dictatorship" . Among other provisions, the law stipulates that the State Aid to the location, identification and possible exhumation of victims of repression under Franco, "thereby implicitly acknowledging that in Spain, seventy years after the civil war, thousands of dead bodies are still buried at mass graves and ditches.