The Spanish right-wing government cut off funds for finding and identifying the graves of people massacred by its predecessor, the dictator Franco, during the Spanish civil war.

Franco was a general, and tried to stage a military coup, but ran into resistance from the people so that it took him three years to conquer all of Spain.

Friends in Spain told me a few years ago that Franco's supporters still occupied positions of power. It is no surprise, therefore, that right-wing politicians want to Franco's crimes to be forgotten.