Spain: Garzón receives today 130.137 names of victims of Franco's repression

Judge Garzón is presented today with a list of 130.137 victims of the civil war and the following repression. Collaborators to this project have used the form of the UN Working Group against Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances to collect information about the victims and their disappearances.

Federico García Lorca

According to the Spanish newspaper El Pais today, 22nd of September 2008 families and associations for the recovery of the historical memory will personally hand judge Garzón a list of names of victims of torture, executed, and buried in unmarked graves. This list of people who primarely were disappeared, comprehends 130.137 names.

Many people have worked to build this list not only family members of the victims, but also high school teachers, history university professors and many volunteers. Their method of work has been based on collecting information about the disappeared person and the circumstances of the disappearances using the UNWGEID form.

Please read the original article in Spanish here.

Further, the exhumation of poet Federico Garcia Lorca will take place as soon as the order has been given. Garcia Lorca was one of the first victims of the Spanish civil war, brutally killed after being taken by a Nationalist militia together with three other victims.

Read further about this exhumation here