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Belchite, the open wound of Spain's civil war

Like many Spanish villages, Belchite was devastated by Spain's 1936-39 Civil War.

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"There are still 114,000 disappeared," mostly Republicans, Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said earlier this week. Only Cambodia had more missing people, he added. His government has drafted a law that, for the first time, will make exhumations of those who disappeared during the war a "state responsibility". The bill faces its first parliamentary vote on Thursday.