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Identifying the victims of the civil war

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• Sept. 21, 2008: A human skeleton is seen in a mass grave in San Rafael cemetery in Malaga, Spain. Relatives of two people killed along with poet Federico Garcia Lorca during the Spanish Civil War have petitioned to have the mass grave in nearby Viznar, where they are believed to be buried, exhumed despite the protestations of Lorca's family.
• Sept. 21, 2008: The Monolith in memoriam of Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca is seen where he is believed to be buried at the village of Viznar, near of Granada, Spain.
• Sept. 18, 2008: Juliana Sanchez stands by a mass grave at the San Rafael cemetery in Malaga, Spain, where she thinks the remains of her father may be. He was shot by a Nationalist firing squad loyal to Gen. Francisco Franco during Spain's Civil War 70 years ago.
• Gen. Francisco Franco, of Spain, seen in 1936.
• Sept. 21, 2008: Some visitors inside the kitchen of the House-Museum Huerta de San Vicente in Granada, Spain, where the spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca wrote some of his main works and spent the days just previous to his arrest and assassination at the onsent of the Spanish Civil War. At the start of the 1936-39 war, Granada became one of many execution grounds for perceived opponents of Francisco Franco, the army general who unleashed the conflict by rising up against the elected, leftist Republican government.
• Sept. 21, 2008: A worker measures a human skeleton in a mass grave in San Rafael cemetery in Malaga, Spain. Federico Garcia Lorca, widely considered Spain's best 20th century poet and playwright, was shot along with school teacher Dioscoro Galindo Gonzalez and two labor union activists, Francisco Galadi and Juan Arcolla, on Aug. 18, 1936 in nearby Viznar. For years, the poet's descendants blocked requests by the Galindo and Galadi families to open up the grave. Tired of waiting, Galindo and Galadi relatives took their case to a crusading investigative magistrate who had recently begun a probe into what are essentially Spain's missing ones.
• Sept. 21, 2008: A worker is seen behind a human skull in a mass grave in San Rafael cemetery in Malaga, Spain. Relatives of two people killed along with poet Federico Garcia Lorca during the Spanish Civil War have petitioned to have the mass grave in nearby Viznar, where they are believed to be buried, exhumed despite the protestations of Lorca's family.
• Sept. 21, 2008: A woman looks at some postcards with the image of the spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca at the store next to the House-Museum Huerta de San Vicente in Granada, Spain. Relatives of two people killed along with poet Federico Garcia Lorca during the Spanish Civil War have petitioned to have the mass grave in nearby Viznar, where they are believed to be buried, exhumed despite the protestations of Lorca's family.
• Sept. 21, 2008: The Monolith in memoriam of Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca is seen where he is believed to be buried at the village of Viznar, near of Granada, Spain. At the start of the Spanish Civil War, Viznar became one of many execution grounds for perceived opponents of Francisco Franco, the army general who started the conflict by rising up against the elected, leftist Republican government.