The Rise of Transitional Justice and Human Rights Culture

Since 2000, 740 mass graves containing the remains of 9,000 people have been opened in Spain. Of that number, only a third of the individuals buried have been identified. It will take years to locate and exhum all of Spain's mass burial grounds. But there is one grave in particular that holds significance for the Spanish public: The Valley of the Fallen. Since its inauguration in 1959, thousands of victims of the Spanish Civil War have been interred there. When Francisco Franco died in 1975, he was buried atop these remains in an ornate crypt. For years, those on the left called for the dictator's body to be removed from this national monument. Those on the far right