Court halts Franco-era exhumation

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Source: BBC News

A Spanish court has suspended the opening of mass graves in the inquiry into the fate of more than 100,000 who vanished under Gen Franco's rule.

The top criminal court ruled by 10 votes to five to stop exhumations from the 1936-39 Civil War.

It imposed the halt to allow it to rule on whether Spain's best-known judge, Baltasar Garzon, had the competence to launch the inquiry.

Campaigners condemned the court's ruling as "brutally inhumane".

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7717117.stm

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1. Era prounounced "still dead".

[curse of greyface]

3. see below

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2. Franco's reign was only a few decades ago.

I'm sure there are still plenty of people in the Spanish government who would rather some bodies weren't dug up, both literally and figuratively.

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4. So you think it is a cover up then ?

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