useless-catalanfacts:[Imatges d’aquest post de la pàgina d’Instagram La sí
useless-catalanfacts:[Imatges d’aquest post de la pàgina d’Instagram La síntesi.]Translation:1) The Valencian victims of the Spanish Civil War and Francoism2) The state of Spain is the country in the European Union with more forced disappearances: more than 130,000 people during the Spanish Civil War and the Francoist dictatorship.3) On a global scale, Spain is only surpassed by Cambodia, which has more than 20,000 mass graves.4) Only about 2,600 mass graves have been found, but it is estimated that in Spain there are still about 2,000 mass graves with unidentified corpses.5) According to the Diputació de València (provincial organism), it is estimated that in the Valencian Country there are 299 mass graves: 71 in Castelló, 184 in València and 44 in Alacant.6) In the mass graves of the Paterna cemetery there are 2,238 victims. It is the place in the Valencian Country where more bodies have been found, followed by the mass grave of Castelló de la Plana where 976 people where exhumed.7) With over 60 mass graves and the wall known as “la paredassa d’Espanya” (“Spain’s big wall”), the cemetery of Paterna ([a small city in] L’Horta Oest) has become “the great mass grave” of the Spanish Civil War and a symbol of the fight for historical memory.8) “We do not mean to re-open wounds. We are not moved by hate either, nor rancor as some people imply, we only want justice and reparation. All the frustrations and family traumas are inherited generation to generation.” - Federation of Associations of Relatives of Victims of Francoism, Paterna Mass Graves. -- source link
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