MADRID: Spain’s Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a request to exhume the remains of late dictator Francisco Franco from a mausoleum near Madrid and rebury them elsewhere. Receiving no reply, they took the matter to the Supreme Court. Built by Franco’s regime between 1940 and 1958 in the granite mountains of the Sierra de Guadarrama, the monument holds the remains of over 30,000 dead from both sides in the civil war. The Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory, a group seeking justice for people tortured, killed and disappeared in the civil war and the ensuing dictatorship, slammed the court decision. Meanwhile Garzon, his colleagues Manuel Olle and Eduardo Ranz said they may take the case to Spain’s Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights.

Source: Manila Times March 01, 2017 11:10 UTC