"The fight to save a Spanish civil war mass grave" Topic

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Editor in Chief Bill	27 Jan 2024 8:43 p.m. PST
…If local lore and research by historical associations is correct then somewhere close to the cemetery boundary is a mass grave containing the mortal remains of 451 people, most of them foreign volunteers, who died fighting fascism during the Spanish civil war. Among them, a world away from Charleston, the famous family home in East Sussex where he and his little brother would fight and taunt each other, is Julian Bell, the eldest son of Clive and Vanessa Bell, pillars of the Bloomsbury group, and a nephew of Virginia Woolf… The Guardian: link
Dn Jackson	28 Jan 2024 11:20 a.m. PST
It should be easy to determine if the mass grave is there. A couple of test trenches will clear it up quickly. It's sad, but I couldn't help but thinking, "would this article have been published if the grave was full of Catholics who fought against the Communists?"
Gray Bear	28 Jan 2024 6:55 p.m. PST
Good point Dn Jackson.
Wackmole9	29 Jan 2024 8:08 a.m. PST
Foreign volunteers, who died fighting for Communism during the Spanish civil war.
robert piepenbrink	29 Jan 2024 2:00 p.m. PST
It would certainly not been published in the Guardian, Dn Jackson. For that matter, in Brooklyn there are paved over mass graves of 11,500 American POWs who died of British neglect early in the AWI, and no one seems to be losing any sleep over them. link I guess you have to be a proponent of a totalitarian government to be a proper martyr.