FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 5 - Caught on Camera

New Spanish law on locating Franco-era victims divides opinion

Almost five decades after the death of Spain's right-wing dictator Francisco Franco, the country is making a fresh attempt to offer justice to his victims. A new Democratic Memory law, which came into force in October, makes the state responsible for the search for tens of thousands of those forcibly…

France 24 · Nov 29, 2022

Data on Mass Murder by Government in the 20th Century

Communists killed the most, followed by fascists.

Reason · Nov 9, 2022

Spain exhumes body of general linked to Garcia Lorca's execution

Spain exhumed on Thursday the body of a Francoist general who is believed to have ordered the execution of the poet Federico Garcia Lorca in 1936 at the start of the Spanish civil war.

Reuters · Nov 3, 2022

Families of victims of Franco regime welcome new Spanish law

Flor Baena has spent decades trying to clear the name of her brother Jose Humberto, who was one of the last five people executed under General Francisco Franco's fascist regime just two months before the dictator's death in 1975.

Reuters · Oct 20, 2022

Heirs of Spain's fascist party founder ask for his remains to be exhumed

The family of the Spanish fascist Falange party's founder, Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, have asked to exhume his remains, buried in the monument known as The Valley of the Fallen, where those of dictator Francisco Franco remained until October 2019, Spanish newspaper ABC said on Monday.

Reuters · Oct 10, 2022

Spain rights group seeks probe of civil war lyrics at far-right rally

A group representing victims of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco's regime has asked prosecutors to investigate a song performed at a rally by the far-right Vox party for allegedly calling for a return to civil war.

Reuters · Oct 10, 2022

Anarchist, publisher, would-be assassin: exhibition documents life of Stuart Christie

Tribute to the revolutionary thinking of the Glaswegian writer jailed in Spain when a teenager for plotting to blow up Franco

The Guardian - UK · Jun 12, 2022

Spain fires captain whose soldiers knelt at Franco memorial

Spain’s armed forces have fired an army captain after a video was posted on social media showing some 30 soldiers kneeling in front of the Valley of the Fallen mausoleum, the most potent existing symbol of the dictatorship of the late Gen. Francisco Franco

The Independent UK · Jun 2, 2022

Why Ukraine will likely win Eurovision

The song contest might be fodder for Will Ferrell spoofs, but it also reflects the political culture in Europe

Salon · May 12, 2022

'Walking through Europe's door, singing' – How Eurovision helps define Europe's boundaries (and why Ukraine will likely win)

This year’s Eurovision Song Contest – an annual celebration of pop music in which nations compete to win the votes of judges and the public – takes place on May 14 in Turin, Italy. And Ukraine is overwhelmingly the favorite to win.

The Conversation · May 5, 2022