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Timeline: Spain
1936-39 - Spanish Civil War: more than 350,000 Spaniards killed.
March 1939: Spanish Civil War ends: Madrid falls to Francisco Franco's Nationalists.
Republicans are executed, jailed or exiled.
Spanish Civil War veterans look back, March 2006
This year is the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War in which
500,000 people died. About 1,000 people from Ireland fought in Spain, both for and
against General Franco.
Civil War legacy divides Spain, July 2006
Spain is marking 70 years since the start of the Civil War.
Poet's death still troubles Spain, August 2006
The murder of the poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca by nationalists on 19 August
1936 remains one of Spain's open wounds.
Spanish judge to probe Franco era, October 2008
Tales of the last survivors, June 2009
They have borne witness to extraordinary events that changed the course of history.
But as eight British people are honoured by Spain for fighting in the country's civil war,
how do last survivors help us understand the past?
Spanish Civil War bodies exhumed
The bodies were removed in the presence of relatives
Seven bodies have been removed from Spanish Civil War graves in the first court-
ordered exhumation. The remains were transferred from two mass graves in the
cemetery of Santa Marta village to a medical lab for official identification.
Archaeologists recovered the remains, belonging to men executed by supporters of
Gen Francisco Franco in 1936. This could be the first of thousands of official exhumations
that have been the focus of a lengthy legal wrangle.
Judge Garzon
The matter of exhumations is still controversial in Spain 70 years after the Civil War.
Previously, exhumations were done by volunteers with no official help. These seven
bodies were officially exhumed in the presence of relatives over five days.
Historians says tens of thousands of victims of the Civil War and the repression under
Gen Franco that followed still lie unidentified in mass graves around the country. Last
October, High Court Judge Baltasar Garzon announced that mass exhumations could
begin - including the grave where poet Federico Garcia Lorca is thought to be buried.
Judge Garzon named Gen Franco and more than 30 members of his regime as instigators
of alleged crimes against humanity. But the public prosecutor argued that these crimes
could not be examined, because of Spain's Amnesty Law that prevents any criminal
investigation into the Franco years.
Judge Garzon pulled out of his inquiry and transferred the responsibility for any future
exhumations to local courts.
1936-39 - Spanish Civil War: more than 350,000 Spaniards killed.
March 1939: Spanish Civil War ends: Madrid falls to Francisco Franco's Nationalists.
Republicans are executed, jailed or exiled.
Spanish Civil War veterans look back, March 2006
This year is the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War in which
500,000 people died. About 1,000 people from Ireland fought in Spain, both for and
against General Franco.
Civil War legacy divides Spain, July 2006
Spain is marking 70 years since the start of the Civil War.
Poet's death still troubles Spain, August 2006
The murder of the poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca by nationalists on 19 August
1936 remains one of Spain's open wounds.
Spanish judge to probe Franco era, October 2008
Tales of the last survivors, June 2009
They have borne witness to extraordinary events that changed the course of history.
But as eight British people are honoured by Spain for fighting in the country's civil war,
how do last survivors help us understand the past?
Spanish Civil War bodies exhumed
The bodies were removed in the presence of relatives
Seven bodies have been removed from Spanish Civil War graves in the first court-
ordered exhumation. The remains were transferred from two mass graves in the
cemetery of Santa Marta village to a medical lab for official identification.
Archaeologists recovered the remains, belonging to men executed by supporters of
Gen Francisco Franco in 1936. This could be the first of thousands of official exhumations
that have been the focus of a lengthy legal wrangle.
Judge Garzon
The matter of exhumations is still controversial in Spain 70 years after the Civil War.
Previously, exhumations were done by volunteers with no official help. These seven
bodies were officially exhumed in the presence of relatives over five days.
Historians says tens of thousands of victims of the Civil War and the repression under
Gen Franco that followed still lie unidentified in mass graves around the country. Last
October, High Court Judge Baltasar Garzon announced that mass exhumations could
begin - including the grave where poet Federico Garcia Lorca is thought to be buried.
Judge Garzon named Gen Franco and more than 30 members of his regime as instigators
of alleged crimes against humanity. But the public prosecutor argued that these crimes
could not be examined, because of Spain's Amnesty Law that prevents any criminal
investigation into the Franco years.
Judge Garzon pulled out of his inquiry and transferred the responsibility for any future
exhumations to local courts.
