SAN LORENZO DE ESCORIAL, Spain (Reuters) - Work started on Monday to exhume bodies of Spanish Civil War victims from a huge monument outside Madrid, built under the auspices of dictator Francisco Franco, following a six-year legal battle by relatives to give the men a dignified burial.
The moves to extract the remains of four men who died on both sides of the 1936-39 civil war, at the request of relatives, could lead to more demands for exhumations at the giant mausoleum the Valle de los Caidos (Valley of the Fallen).