The Principality will immediately begin to locate, exhume and identify the victims of extrajudicial, arbitrary or summary executions of the Franco regime.
The Government of Asturias will apply for the first time the public procedure that is included in chapter 3 of the autonomous law for the Recovery of Democratic Memory, as announced this Friday by the deputy minister of Citizen Rights, Beatriz González, before the first meeting of the technical committee for the recovery and identification of persons missing during the civil war and the dictatorship.
“Today is a very special day for the democratic people of our autonomous community. For the first time in Asturias, we are starting a public exhumation procedure,” celebrated the vice-counselor.
The work will be carried out by the University of Oviedo through an agreement signed with the Ministry of Housing, Territorial Planning and Citizen Rights, which has an allocation of 80,000 euros for 2024 and aims to carry out research and social dissemination work. the location, prospecting, excavation, exhumation, study and identification of the victims
A “fundamental tool”
The technical committee for the recovery and identification of people who disappeared during the Civil War and the Franco dictatorship will depend on the Memory Institute and will become “a fundamental tool for intervention in the common graves of our community,” González Prieto has stressed. .
The body is made up of a dozen people, among whom are representatives of the Institute of Legal Medicine of Asturias, the Superior Prosecutor’s Office of the Principality, the memorial entities of Asturias, and four experts of proven prestige in the areas of archeology and contemporary history.
Its composition is closed by the coordinator of the Institute of Democratic Memory of the Principality, a person who will exercise the functions of Secretariat with voice, but without vote; and the director of Democratic Memory, who presides over the same
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