The Minister of Equality, Justice and Social Policy, Beatriz Artolazabal, the Mayor of Bilbao, Juan Mari Aburto, and the Secretary General of the Aranzadi Science Society, Juantxo Agirre, announced the discovery this Wednesday.
The Minister of Equality, Justice and Social Policy, Beatriz Artolazabalthe mayor of Bilbao, Juan Mari Aburtoand the Secretary General of the Aranzadi Science Society, Juantxo Agirrewill announce this Wednesday the discovery at the Begoña Cemetery in Bilbao of the largest mass grave of the Civil War found so far in the Basque Country.
As reported by the Consistory of Bilbao, this discovery is part of the… Begoñako Argia Projectdeveloped by Aranzadi and subsidized by the Bilbao City Council.
Artolazabal, Aburto and Agirre will be accompanied during the presentation by the director of the Institute of Memory, Coexistence and Human Rights Gogora, Aintzane Ezenarrothe Councilor for Town Planning and Works, Services, Urban Rehabilitation and Public Space of the City Council of Bilbao, Asier Abaunzaand the members of Aranzadi Lourdes Herrasti and Anartz Ormazathe latter in turn coordinator of the Begoñako Argia project.
An archaeological team from the Aranzadi Society, under the umbrella of the Gogora Memory Institute and the Bilbao City Council, began the Dec 2021 the recovery of the remains of the dead of the civil war, buried in the Begoña cemetery in Bilbao, which closed since 2003
Currently, the Bilbao City Council is excavating all the remains to transform this space into a public park, as part of the Begoñako Argia project.
At this point, work has begun in one of two zones or areas where, according to the available documentation, there are graves of Civil War victims.
Source: EITB
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