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Franco's Ghost Haunts Spain as Families Open Civil War Graves

Next to a mass grave in Malaga, Spain, Juliana Sanchez watches an archeologist scrape dirt from a broken skull and wonders if this might be her father.

``I can't leave,'' she says of the site, where investigators found the remains of children and babies among 220 bodies crammed into a pit by fascist dictator Francisco Franco's death squads. ``I'm too anxious to know if some paper, some trace could be found to show that one of them is my father.''

Sanchez, 76, visits the grave almost every day. Her vigil may be cut short when funding for the dig runs out next month. The future of such excavation projects is one of the most heated issues in the run-up to Spain's general elections next March.
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