Francisco Vargas

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Ascensión Mendieta's life changed at the age of 13

followers and relatives Saw , Ascensión Mendieta fulfil their ambitions buried together with her father on Tuesday, after A Life In Search of justice.

at the age of 93 she died in Madrid, 80 years after Timoteo Mendieta was shot shot by a fascist, and his body was then burial in a mass.

you have been a champion for justice, the victims of Spanish dictator Francisco Gen Franco, and successfully combated, her father exhumed the body and a proper funeral.

"Now I can rest in peace," She Said in the year 2017, at the end of a legal battle, it had as far as Argentina to a lifetime of closed doors in Spain.

to the death

Sentenced The second oldest of seven children from The Village of Sacedón, to the East of Madrid, you never forgot how, as a 13-year-old, she opened the door after lunch One Day , a group of men she described as "well-spoken". It was in the autumn of 1939 and The Soldiers of the siesta asked where her father slept, before they removed him far from Guadalajara, 50 km (31 miles).

According to His Family , Timoteo Mendieta seen, no real plot, like a soldier on the losing Republican side in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). But , apart from that, The Village butcher, he was The Head of The Local branch of the UGT trade Union. In Spain, led by Franco, it was enough to be a Death Sentence .

Mendieta was shot against The Wall of the Guadalajara cemetery on 16. In November 1939, an estimated 822 executions there until 1944.

More Than 100,000 victims of Franco-era executions and buried remain in unmarked graves in Spain.

Quest remains

The Family was not allowed to visit the mass graves instead of flowers cast on The Wall .

as well As the cruelty of her father to endure the Murder , Ascensión reminded of the misery and exclusion of their mother moves The Family into a single room, in Madrid.

"My Mother was a widow with seven children. I feel not hatred, But of all those who killed unjustly should boxes all buried decently," she once said.

After the democracy was restored in Spain after Franco's death in 1975, Ascensión, and other relatives requested Spain to assist the authorities in the situation of the father, But without success.

Then, at the age of 88 years, Ascensión flew to Argentina, to appeal to a growing case file, compiled by judge María Servini. The Argentine judge had initiated an investigation at the behest of the Spanish memory associations, in crimes against humanity during the Franco dictatorship.

Ascensión (R). in January of 2016, as her father Timoteo's exhumed Guadalajara cemetery

were the remains If Timoteo Mendieta's remains were finally exhumed on the orders of a Spanish judge accepted Ms Servini's request that he be searched, and there was a person missing, it was the First Time a Franco-era victims had recovered by the courts

'Infected wounds'

It was a big breakthrough, But Ascensión were The First thoughts for the Paz, the sister with whom you had knocked on doors in Guadalajara and Madrid In Search of justice, But who had died too early to come to see.

"If it is not found for the judge in Argentina, we would never have him. In Spain, no one did anything for The Dead has said," Ascensión.

Getty Images they all died for the same cause, because they are fighting from The Left , and for this, we should for you to dig upAscensión Mendieta

most of the personal struggles had accidentally modest Ascensión in a public figure in her last years. You had your celebrity status with smiling astonishment, But she always had a crystal-clear view of the injustice of her family and thousands of others had to stomach during the Franco regime, and the failure of the modern Spanish state, to arrange with the country ' s bloody legacy.

After her coffin was lowered into the same grave as her father, one of her four children, Francisco Vargas Mendieta, paid tribute to her life, by the cruel blow of losing her father, her Hard Times as a teenager-a seamstress and her struggle for justice and historical memory.

"a Lot of people say, what has Ascensión, and what others of us do, to open wounds, But , to be quite honest, our wounds are already infected. "

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Source of news: bbc.com