Mass graves from the spanish Civil War 2003

Two skeletons in a mass grave shot in the back of the head with their arms around each other. Archaeologists and anthropologists excavate human remains from a mass grave near the town of Aranda de Duero, (100 miles north of Madrid) when in the summer of 1936, at the very beginning of the Spanish Civil war, socialists, communists and republicans were rounded up and shot in shallow graves. It is believed that a further 35, 000 ~disappeared persons are still in unmarked graves. The NGO Service Civil International (SCI) is calling for volunteers from Europe to help dig up and give a dignified burial to those executed over 80 years ago

Anthropologists Aranda Archaeologists Believed Calling Communists Dignified Disappeared Duero Excavate Excavated Excavations Executed Further Rounded Shallow Skeletons Unmarked Volunteers

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