Tuesday, 25 March 2008

The Government approved the first law in Spain on mass graves


The government of Catalonia today approved a bill pioneer in Spain, aimed at promoting and upgrading of the promoting mass graves of the Civil War and Francoism so they do not fall into oblivion, as announced by Minister of Interior and in Institutional Relations, Joan Saura.

The law defines the exhumation cases with "evidence" or "documentary evidence" and only provides for the possibility of opening a pit if so requested by the relatives of the disappeared, or a nonprofit institution dedicated to the recovery of historical memory.

To authorize the exhumation of a mass grave, the request must be supported by an advisory committee made up of professionals from prestigious institutions, representatives of associations municipality or different departments in the Catalan Barcelona hotels government.

Joan Saura has explained that currently there are some 179 mass graves in Catalunya of which are located in a hundred municipal cemeteries.

The vast majority of graves gather the remains of soldiers who died during the Civil War and it is estimated that between ten and fifteen graves "are" civilian personnel shot, "according to the minister clarified that has stressed in this respect the differences between Catalonia Barcelona hotels and the rest of Spain hotels.

The bill will be passed after the summer and aims to recognize the dignity of missing persons regardless of their ideological choices, or personal conscience that made them victims of repression.

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