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Mass grave from Spanish Civil War unearthed in Toledo

The bodies of seven men killed during the Spanish Civil War have been discovered in an unmarked grave in the village of Recas, Toledo this week.

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Mass grave from Spanish Civil War unearthed in Toledo

However, the bill is currently under negotiations and nationalist groups from Catalonia and the Basque Country, whose support is required for the bill to pass, want even more. They are calling for the country to completely overturn the Amnesty Law, something the UN has also championed.

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Mass grave from Spanish Civil War unearthed in Toledo

After years of institutional silence, the unearthing of bodies from the civil war and Franco era has become a common occurrence in Spain.

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Mass grave from Spanish Civil War unearthed in Toledo

Last month, another association found a grave in the northern village of Belchite that contains as many as 150 people who were slaughtered just days after the civil war broke out in July 1936.