The government of Pedro Sánchez plans to exhume 25,000 victims of the pro-Franco regime

The government of Pedro Sánchez, staying in La Moncloa after the legislative elections of April 28, intends to exhume 25,000 bodies of victims of the dictatorship of Francisco Franco.

Impellers of the task admit that perhaps it would be possible to identify only between 5,000 and 7,000 people among the 25,000 bodies, as it appears in reports commissioned by the government and advanced by L & # 39; s independent.

The work would be directed by a general council of historical memory, in which fifty experts would intervene and last at least five years.

With about 100,000 civilians Republicans buried in mbad graves, Spain is the second country in the world, after Cambodia, with others missing.

According to the study done by the coroner Francisco Etxeberria, most of the bodies are buried in "clandestine places": "Mbad graves in gutters, clearings, mountains, wells, mines and sinkholes".

The repression was "generalized throughout the Spanish geography, reaching the civilian population of both bades and all ages," added Etxeberria. In addition, 80 years after the end of the civil war (1936-1939) "there is still no official investigation to date to prove or validate these results."

Since 2000, historical memory badociations have carried out exhumations throughout the country. "intervening in 740 mbad graves and recovering more than 9000 skeletons"as indicated in the study.

According to the report, "with official state intervention, about 20,000 to 25,000 people could be recovered and it might be possible to identify between 5,000 and 7,000 people".

According to the agency ANSA, experts warn of the high degree of deterioration of burials and the difficulty of locating graves in the absence of an updated map at the national level.

Existing maps have been compiled by regional governments or private organizations. The United Nations has called Spain "a central database designed to promote transparency, accuracy and certainty regarding missing persons". Individual and statistical data are needed, especially to clarify and distinguish victims of enforced disappearances and enforced disappearances. "