Can new Spanish law lay the ghosts of the Civil War to rest?

View of the commemorative plaque at the chapel inside of La Macarena Basilica in Seville, where the remains of General Gonzalo Queipo de Llano, his wife and General Francisco Bohorquez Vecina were buried [Raul Caro/EPA-EFE]

Madrid, Spain – The remains of one of Spanish dictator General Francisco Franco‘s most brutal Civil War henchmen, General Gonzalo Queipo de Llano, were discreetly exhumed in the small hours of the morning in a central Seville church in early November.

Only one member of the families of the 45,000 Republicans killed on his orders was present to witness the scene, and even that was from a distance.