Spain’s ‘trial of the century’ reopens historic wounds
After a long court battle, the remains of General Francisco Franco are set to be exumed. From the archive, read the back story on why Spain’s ‘trial of the century’ has reopened historic wounds:
'When General Franco finally died – peacefully in his sleep – politicians of the left and the right resolved upon a democratic transition rooted in a "pact of forgetting", rather than a reckoning. Collective amnesia and amnesty were applied both to the sins of the dictatorship and to the convergences that shaped the Civil War. "If we don’t talk about our differences, they don’t need to become an issue again," was the rationale.'
https://newint.org/features/2019/02/12/spains-trial-century-reopens-historic-wounds
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