Spanish fight over Lorca's remains

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Spanish fight over poet's remains
Katya Adler
BBC Correspondent in Madrid

News that the grave of the great Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca is soon to be exhumed is causing considerable controversy.

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Laura Garcia Lorca de Los Rios runs the Lorca museum in Granada, where the poet and his family lived for many years.

"We feel the mass graves are a kind of cemetery as they are," he said.

"My uncle lies in good and noble company and the little information to be gleaned from digging up the graves doesn't justify what is essentially an extremely violent act."

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Up to 3,000 people are buried in a mass grave in Viznar, a village just outside Granada, close to where Lorca is thought to lie.

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