Abstract
Spain is filled with the mass graves of those murdered during the Civil War and Franco’s dictatorship. After the War and during the Transition, hundreds of monuments were created around those mass graves, and, since 2000, their exhumation has become a common memorial practice. This concluding chapter presents the unfolding debate regarding the future of mass graves, in which they and their monuments have become a disputed field. It concludes by acknowledging the critical importance of these types of monument-building strategies in terms of their role in attempting to document a people’s history rather than merely providing solutions to the limitation of forensic science. These monuments around mass graves represent much more than memorials. They are a political expression of the people’s resistance.
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