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Article: Civil War wounds are far from healed; Nation confronts legacy of Franco, killings
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- October 29, 2009
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For more than 70 years, the foothills of Spain's Sierra Nevada
mountains have contained the country's darkest memories. Francisco
Galadi intimately knows: Fascists executed his grandfather during
the nation's Civil War, dumping his body in one of many mass graves
that cover this serene landscape overlooking the city of Granada.
For years, Galadi has sought to give his grandfather, a
bullfighter and anarchist, a proper burial. But he is believed to be
in the same grave as Spain's most acclaimed 20th century poet,
Federico Garcia Lorca, whose family has long opposed opening the
grave.
On Wednesday, however, under pressure from human rights activists
and with the acquiescence of Garcia Lorca's ...