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Project by the Council of Ciudad Real in collaboration with the International Center for Memory and Human Rights of the UNED, CIEMEDH, to census the graves and recover the bodies.

Francisco Etxeberría. Entrevista El País. 18/05/2017

Interview with Francisco Etxeberría.  By Inigo Domínguez. 

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Germán Labrador. Proyecto Brandaris. 08/05/2017

“Una imagina la cultura como sede de la realidad. La otra cree que la cultura confirma o representa una realidad que está más allá.”

Interview with German Labrador. By Paul Beas Marin and Jairo Pulpillo Lopez.

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Francisco Ferrándiz. Russian TV. 11/05/2017

Interview with Francisco Ferrándiz on the proposal in the Congress to exhume the remains of Francisco Franco of Valle de los Caídos

Francisco Ferrándiz. BBC World Service. 09/05/2017.

Cathedral of the Fallen

“Giles Tremlett takes us into the fierce battles being fought over The Valle de los Caidos, an enormous memorial to Spain’s civil war dead constructed by the dictator Francisco Franco. For some a greatmonument, for others a war crime, it has become a flashpoint for spiritual and political conflict.

The Valley of the Fallen is a giant cemetery, made visible by a basilica larger than St. Peters in Rome, carved into a mountain. Most striking of all is the free standing granite cross which at 150 metres is the tallest in the world. The visual association of Franco and Catholicism at the valley is stark, not least because of the giant cross; but it reflects the long held and close association between the two. The church supported Franco openly during the civil war, which lasted from 1936 until 1939.

In the aftermath of Franco’s death in 1975, Spain transitioned from dictatorship to democracy; but one aspect of the transition was silence over the issues of Francoist persecution and brutality. Today, the battle over how Franco and the Civil War should be remembered is one of the most significant religious and political conflicts in Spain; at the valley of the fallen, and the working church buried deep within it, they collide”. (BBC World Service)

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Francisco Ferrándiz and Francisco Exteberria. cadenaser.com. 09/05/2017. Hora 25

“El abandono del Valle de los Caídos”

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More info: Los huesos olvidados del Valle de los Caídos 

 

Objetivo: Exhumar a Franco EITB

Equipo de redacción – TV EITB
March 30, 2017

The program investigates the difficulties  of families to recover the bodies of their relatives from the Valle de los Caídos.

 

Documentary “España, la memoria enterrada”

“On July 18, 1936, a coup d’état provoked the Spanish Civil War, followed by Francisco Franco’s dictatorship. Decades later, historians and victims denounce that Spain is the second country in the world with the largest number of disappeared people, and that there is no state policy facing the debts of the past. To the point that, while families ask for truth and reparation, it is the Argentinian justice that currently investigates Francoism’s crimes.”

With Francisco Ferrándiz y Francisco Etxeberria.

“What Remains” directed by Lee Douglas reviewed in El Diagonal

Journalist Jose Durán Rodríguez from the Madrid-based newspaper El Diagonal reviews the documentary “What Remains” and its premiere at Traficantes de Sueños. The film was produced and directed by project member Lee Douglas and doctoral candidate Jorge Moreno Andrés (UNED).

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Francisco Ferrándiz. sapiens.org. 03/06/2016. “Gathering the Genetic Testimony of Spain’s Civil War Dead”

New research by anthropologists and forensic scientists is bringing hope to the relatives of war victims while challenging Spain’s “pact of forgetting”.

In a waist-high trench alongside Spain’s national Highway 1, a dozen volunteers wearing rubber gloves brush tan clay from crumbling human bones. Their knees rest on foam cushions, and a white tent shades them from the summer sun. It’s July 2011—a full 75 summers after Spain erupted in the Civil War that put the bones of 59 civilians in the ground here…

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