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Franco-era mass graves loom over Spain 50 years after his death

The few surviving children of victims of Franco’s regime are racing against time to recover and identify the remains of their parents through DNA testing, with over 3,300 mass graves from the Spanish Civil War estimated to contain 140,000 missing persons.

https://www.thelocal.es/20251110/franco-era-mass-graves-loom-over-spain-50-years-after-his-death