A mixed team from La Universidad de Granada have recommenced the exhumations of those executed by the Franco regime (1939-75) in unmarked graves.

Although the graves are indeed unmarked the generation that witnessed those long years of repression passed on where their relatives were buried to their children.

During the Spanish Civil War both sides carried out summary executions but with the victory of the nationalist reactionary rebels their victims were given a decent burial; not so those belonging to the losing side; the legitimate, democratic government of the Republic.

The university, following the disinterment campaigns carried out during 2021, 2022 and 2024 outside the walls of the Padul municipal cemetery during which 13 bodies were recovered, the Universidad y Memoria began this years campaign in this same area.

The main objective of this work is the recovery of the ten known victims that were partially uncovered during the 2024 campaign. These bodies had to remain where they were because the team had ran out of time.

According to several studies, as many as 40 people were shot and buried up against the outside of the cemetery walls; victims of the repression in the 50s, over a decade after the end of the war.

(News: Padul, Valle de Lecrin, Granada, Andalucia)

Keywords: Franco Regime, Executed, Unmarked, Mass Graves, Repression, Universidad de Granada, Exhumations.

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