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Spanish judge orders exhumation of Republicans from tomb of Gen Franco

The final resting place of Spanish dictator General Francisco Franco is to be opened and the remains of some of those who were killed by his fascist forces returned to their relatives.

The exhumation of eight bodies from the mass tomb has been ordered by Judge Baltasar Garzón, who last month launched a criminal investigation into the fate of tens of thousands of those who "disappeared" during the Spanish Civil War and ensuing dictatorship.

The Valley of the Fallen, a basilica with a 500 ft cross in the hills a few miles north of Madrid, serves as a mausoleum to the fascist dictator and a memorial to those who died fighting for his cause during the conflict of 1936-9.
Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)