History Denied
The judge of the National High Court, Baltasar Garzón, declared in October 2008, competent to research the disappearance of victims of the franquist government, when treating of illegal disappearances inside the context of crimes against the humanity.
It is the first Spanish judge that has attributed the dictator Francisco Franco and other 34 chiefs who directed the revolt against the regime legally constituted of the Republic, the planing of systematic extermination of political opponents and of a repression that finished with at least 114.266 missing persons.
Groups representing the victims smile after hearing the news, but not everyone is happy about agitating Spain's fascist past. © JON CAZENAVE / INVISION IMAGES