Saturday, January 31, 2009

Victims of the Franco regime will receive certificates.

In Spain, the victims of dictator Francisco Franco regime receive a certificate confirming their right to rehabilitation, the agency DPA.
According to the source agency within the Ministry of Justice, the Government has already issued 42 of the certificate. Among the first recipients of the certificate - the family of former President Luis Catalan Kompanisa, who was shot frankistami in 1940.
Law on Historical Memory, which issued the certificates, was passed in Spain in 2007. However, it does not provide any monetary compensation to victims of repression.
Franco came to power in 1939 as a result of rebellion against the republican government. Govern the country until his death in 1975. According to various estimates, during his dictatorship as a result of repression of the death of 500 thousand to a million Spaniards, about 700 thousand were forced to emigrate.

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