Tuesday, October 20, 2009

News at Eleven: In 1966 he [Ian Gibson] tracked down a man

known locally as "Manolo the Communist", who as a teenager was forced to dig graves for the fascist death squads in Spain's southern Granada province.

Manolo took the Irish-born historian--along with three others--to the exact place where he recalled burying [Federico Garcia] Lorca.

A stone plinth close to a lone olive tree marks the spot--and it is here that the archaeologists will dig.

from BBC News: Dig may lay Spanish poet mystery to rest

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