Judge Baltasar Garzón now has a list of 133,000 names of people who vanished in the Spanish Civil War

Judge Baltasar Garzón now has a list of 133,000 names of people who vanished in the Spanish Civil War
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By h.b. - Oct 7, 2008 - 8:02 AM

Members of the Historial Memory Association work at a mass grave - Photo EFE

The National Court judge will now decide whether he is powered to investigate the disappearances under the Franco regime.

The National Court Judge, Baltasar Garzón, is now reported to have a list of more than 133,700 people who disappeared during the Spanish Civil War.

The judge had asked for information from several associations and also from local councils and parishes to decide whether he is the correct authority to investigate the disappearances.

Among the list of names are some 4,000 whose bodies have been exhumed from mass graves across the country in recent years, many by members of the Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory.

The lawyer representing the associations, Fernando Magán, commented to the press that all duplicates had been removed from the new list which had been handed to the judge on a CD and which contained data from 17 of Spain’s autonomous regions.

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