ASIN: B00HYYAI2A
Publisher: MRG Publishing
Pages: 88
The Killing Fields of Spain is a personal account of the author's experiences as a forensic anthropologist collaborating with the Association for the Recuperation of Historical Memory in the search and excavation of mass graves containing victims of human rights abuses which transpired during the Spanish Civil War, and her additional involvement with the process of identifying the exhumed bodies. The book provides a brief historical account which lays down the context in which historical events inflicted deep trauma upon Spain, and additionally outlines the dire lack of transitional justice imparted to survivors and the victim's relatives. At present, the situation in Spain is most unusual when framed within the context of other western nations that have actually investigated their own dark pasts; furthermore, Spain ranks second to Cambodia with respect to the number of the disappeared ...
