Forensic scientists began exhuming the bodies of 128 victims of the Spanish Civil War from the former mausoleum of General Francisco Franco near Madrid, the government said
The exhumation, which is being carried out as an election campaign heats up, is the first involving people whose bodies were moved from other parts of Spain after the 1936-1939 war and reburied without their families' consent in a monument built by Franco in the Valley of Cuelgamuros, formerly known as Valley of the Fallen.
"It's justice for all those families who have asked for the remains of their loved ones to be recovered," Felix Bolanos, the minister in charge of overseeing exhumations, said on RTVE. "By the way it's families from both sides. I think it is pure humanity". The process of identifying the remains could take weeks or months, meaning the results will probably be published after the election.
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