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Story summary
- Scientists in Vegas de Matute exhumed a body believed to be Luis Garcia Hernandez or Julio Maroto Ortega.
- The victims were executed by fascists during the Spanish Civil War.
- Victim associations began effort in 2000; Socialist-led government has supported it since 2018.
- The government estimates 20,000 mass graves are recoverable, with 9,000 already found.
- State Secretary for Democratic Memory, Fernando Martinez Lopez, says every mass grave opened closes a wound.
