Oct 17th, 2008 · Volunteers are searching for remains of victims from the Spanish Civil War in an effort to bring posthumous justice to those who were killed in the 1930s conflict. Time is against them, as there are few remaining survivors who remember what actually happened.
Oct 8th, 2006 · Five aging American veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigades are expected at a reunion of the International Brigades who fought in the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s. They will revisit the battlegrounds where they made their ill-fated stand against Fascism. Thousands of foreign volunteers -- or brigadistas -- fought in the civil war, a conflict that presaged the great battles of the 20th century. Only a few hundred brigadistas are still alive, and only a few dozen will be able to make the reunion, which could be their last.
Aug 28th, 2006 · This year marks the 70th anniversary of the start of the Spanish Civil War. In Spain, there are no official commemoration ceremonies. That's in keeping with the silence with which Spaniards have generally treated the war - and the Franco dictatorship that followed. But many, including now elderly children of victims, are increasingly seeking some kind of closure. In the village of Parillas, residents will finally be able to give a proper burial to parents and grandparents executed during the conflict. A team of archeologists will exhume their remains from four mass graves outside the town. The government of Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, whose own grandfather was executed during the war, has drawn up a new law to honor those who suffered during the war or under the Franco dictatorship. But seven decades after the Spanish civil war, it is, in many ways, still being fought.