Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Catalonia initiates genetic identification of victims of Civil War – Digital Journal Juarez

Barcelona, ​​España─ Eighty years after the Spanish Civil War, the northeastern region of Catalonia will launch the first public program in the country to try to genetically identify some of the 114 000 disappeared during the conflict and the subsequent dictatorship of Francisco Franco.

“it is crucial for rebuilding the historical memory forward and is a duty of democracy that had pending” he said in Barcelona responsible for Transparency and institutional Affairs regional government Raul Romeva, who promoted the program.

the program presented Wednesday in a solemn hall of the Catalan government palace will be launched immediately but will be implemented progressively and laborious and the results are expected in the short term recognized Romeva

it will consist of three parts. scientists create a database with the genetic profiles of the relatives of the missing DNA samples from the skeletal remains found in mass graves will be taken and cross the data trying to find matches.

“This should have started 40 years ago” after the death of Franco (1975) and the restoration of democracy, “he lamented.

However during all these years, the Spanish authorities just exhumed the numerous mass graves in the country, one of the main demands of the families of the more than 114,000 missing by civil war (1936-1939) and Franco’s repression.

despite their complaints, which were reinforced by a critical report by the United Nations denouncing the inaction of the authorities, the current conservative government refused to make gestures in that direction under the pretext of not reopen old wounds past.

for the same reason, the crimes of the Franco dictatorship and civil war remain unpunished in Spain by a General Amnesty law passed in 1977, during the transition to democracy.

“the transition established oblivion but (…) only if we know our history, we can build our future,” said Romeva.

So far existed only similar small project in Barcelona, ​​undertaken individually by two offspring missing.

in five years managed to collect genetic samples from 125 families but because it is a private initiative could not compare with the remains found in mass graves because they were not allowed access.

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