• Historical memory: Ascension Mendieta buries her father Timoteo, reprimanded of Franco, 78 years later

Ascension Mendieta, a reference in the fight to recover the memory of the victims of crimes committed during the civil war and the dictatorship of Francisco Franco (1939-9175), has died at 93 years of age , according to his granddaughter in Your Twitter account

A couple of years ago, Mendieta managed to bury her father in the civil cemetery of Almudena (Madrid) to her father Timoteo, a repressed trade unionist of the Franco regime killed in 1939, when he was 41, whose remains were exhumed in May 2017 after that he went to the Justice of Argentina and thus opened the door to new exhumations.

His grave was the first to be unearthed at the request of the Argentine judge María Servini in a lawsuit, under the principle of universal justice, which seeks reparation for victims and their families for crimes committed during the Civil War and Franco's dictatorship .

Ascension Mendieta, who was 13 when his father died, traveled to Buenos Aires in 2013 in order to present evidence of his death. She was one of hundreds of people who have turned to an Argentine court to demand justice for crimes during and after the Spanish Civil War. "I had always been obsessed with how he would have fallen into the pit, face up or face down. Now we can give him the decent burial that everyone deserves. Not as he was thrown, like a dog," he said in February 2016.

The day of the funeral of his father, 78 years after his death, in the civil cemetery of La Almudena, Ascension was applauded by multiple people who congratulated her, thanked her and called her "brave" among red carnations and tricolor flags.

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