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Exhumations under the Galicia 2026 Democratic Memory Plan begin

Exhumations under the Galicia 2026 Democratic Memory Plan begin Last September, the Xunta de Galicia and the University of Santiago signed the agreement setting out the Galicia 2026 Democratic Memory Plan. Once again, HISTAGRA is leading a team comprising historians, archaeologists, a forensic anthropologist and geneticists, whose task is to carry out the exhumation and identification of mass graves from the Francoist era in Galicia. The four-year Plan for Democratic Memory, which underpins this work, comprises three fundamental strategic lines of public policy on Democratic Memory intended to be developed over the period (2025–2028), although its objectives are subject to annual review. These strategic lines are:- Locating and exhuming mass graves and identifying victims.-...