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Bill In Spanish Parliament Aims To End Amnesia About Spanish Civil War Victims
Published Online: October 29, 2007 
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NY Times | 2007-10-27

Marcos Ana does not remember everything about his 23 years in prison during Franco's dictatorship. But the 87-year-old poet remembers the electric shocks and brutal whippings that left his body covered in sores; the hunger that compelled him to eat grass sprouting between the stones of the prison patio; his crumpled mother, clinging to the shins of a prison guard, begging mercy for her bloodied and beaten son.


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