![Eighty years on, Spain may at last be able to confront the ghosts of civil war](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_tE-2Q9pd9qQG03sAj5j93J9LJytX-WWOk-OpmEgn1Sqjqabq2vmtYZBuQ-Drq7DTkONH0WTtAW3aTRbBw_sNrqTSntD47kiUaZptQnKTk2QR4pCR6tv8IEYH9S0dGxnb9rjL0wucemEf4FywmNwiWIT5y5P31KwFiMo_QRpS7HzBVFlzLHcR2lKCt7=s0-d)
Following the end of the Spanish civil war in 1939, the bodies of 1,700 Republicans –soldiers, civilians, people caught in the wrong place at the wrong time – were carted through the centre of Barcelona and dumped here without dignity or ceremony, after summary execution by the fascist forces of General Francisco Franco. Their bullet-ridden corpses were covered in quicklime before being thrown into a pit, the better to ensure their rapid decomposition. In a grim example of fascist humour, the medical certificates of many of the dead reported the cause of death as “internal haemorrage”.
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