Spain begins alleged grave exhumation Garcia Lorca

Alfacar, Spain - Forensic experts have exhumed Wednesday began a mass unmarked grave, which the remains of poet Federico Garcia Lorca, a milestone in the journey to Spain to could be the legacy of its 1936-39 civil war. Working under a tent like structure, the team began preparations for sequencing and to cleanse the soil of the site area in southern Spain for good, "said Sara Gil, an archaeologist who is a member of the dig team. "Excavation has begun. I can not say anything," said Gil reporters. Maribel Brenes, chairman of a local association of relatives of missing persons in time of war said that the exhumation will be moving for good later in the week. It is not clear whether the writer will never be identified, however, because his family against the exhumation. The goal is to find the gap and identify the remains of several men who, like Garcia Lorca, executed in the first days of civil war and is believed to buried with him in the same grave are. The work is done on a remote hill area near the city of Granada, near where the men were killed by members of a militia loyal to General Francisco Franco. The war that still divides Spain 70 years after the end of Franco's broken behavior of Right Forces rebels against a leftist government elected Republicans, and finally implemented, the installation of a dictatorship which lasted until Franco's death 1975th The conflict and misery, the left half a million deaths. Both sides have committed atrocities against civilians, but the Franco government, which is important when you executed a complete report of civilians by militias and anti-Franco announced their proper burials. The Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon, said 114,000 civilians killed by Franco's troops never reported cases. Garcia Lorca is one of the most famous of these, because it was l & # 39; Spain b erühmtesten poets of the 20th Century and a cultural icon. A group called the Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory has helped since the late 1990s Spaniards find the graves of their relatives had reported missing during the war. So far, says the group has identified about 1,700 people. Garcia Lorca was not a member of a political party, but he was omitted identified with the Republic against Franco. Contemporary and friend of the artist Salvador Dali and filmmaker Luis Bunuel, Garcia Lorca was already famous in Spain and abroad at the age of 38 years. But his works and the fact that he is gay very upset the right wing of the country and the Roman Catholic Church, and made him a man, when hostilities broke out in selected summer of 1936. Irish historian Ian Gibson, a noted authority on the Garcia Lorca, the research that helped to carried out to find the excavation site, said the grave must be dug in order to continue the drive for atonement. "This country was a terrible civil war. There are 130,000 people still out there in mass graves, ditches, meadows and ravines. It is a terrible thing for a country," Gibson said in an interview with the Associated Press. Even if the victims on both pages, Gibson said: "The winners of the war was 40 years of dictatorship, in which they dug up their dead. But others were not even allowed to visit in the vicinity of areas seriously. "The grave at the request of the families of the men who opened will probably buried with the poet. The work could take months, the family. Garcia Lorca against the exhumation on the grounds that should not be at hand when so many people died in the hands of Franco's forces in Grenada and elsewhere, say they prefer to get the stay will remain. But the family, said this month could possibly DNA samples for identification.