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By Patrick Lawrence
Original to ScheerPost
This is an extract from Lawrence’s J
The Democratic Memory Law passed by Spain’s parliament earlier this month seeks to bring ‘justice, reparation and dignity’ to the victims of the Franco-era civil war and the subsequent dictatorship of 1939-75.