Spain’s socialist government recently passed a new law greatly expanding the rights and recognition of victims during the dictatorship of Gen. Francisco Franco, and the years that followed. The country’s transition to democracy in 1975 was based on “forgetting” the crimes committed by all sides during Spain’s civil war and aftermath. Crucially, the new law makes the state responsible for locating and exhuming the more than 100,000 people believed killed under Franco. As Gerry Hadden reports from Spain, controversy around the new law centers on how the country’s past should be remembered.
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