Poet Garcia Lorca's family against opening grave

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Thu Sep 18, 2008 1:35pm EDT

By Sarah Morris

MADRID (Reuters) - ... Lorca's family believes Franco's troops executed the writer, along with three other men, in the early weeks of the Civil War in 1936 and buried them in a shallow grave near Granada, southern Spain, along with between 1,000-3,000 other victims ...

"We don't think opening a grave closes a wound," said Laura Garcia Lorca, the poet's niece.

The two families pressing for exhumation, however, have the backing of the Association for Recovery of the Historical memory, which lobbies for justice for Civil War victims.

"The exhuming of the grave of Federico Garcia Lorca, Dioscoro Galindo, Francisco Galadi and Juan Arcollas is a question of human rights," the association said in a statement ...

http://www.reuters.com/article/artsNews/idUSLI47430120080918

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1. Let them lie in peace. G-d Bless. n/t