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The fascist military uprising on 18 July, 1936, against the democratic government of the II Republic in Spain, led to a bloody civil war with hundreds of thousands dead. The end of the war was announced by Francisco Franco on April 1, 1939, it didn’t bring out any peace but a ruthless repression against the defeated that lasted until the dictator’s death, in 1975.
During Franco’s regime most of the war victims on the government’s winning side were exhumed from the mass graves and honoured by the coup regime. On the contrary, thousands and thousands of republicans killed during the civil war and dictatorship remain ignored in mass graves all over Spain.
Although the regime's crimes are classified as “crimes against humanity" and do not prescribe, the Spanish justice still regards these offences according to the Law of Amnesty of 1977.