[1/3] Relatives of late Spanish dictator Francisco Franco carry the coffin after the exhumation at The Valle de los Caidos (The Valley of the Fallen) in San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain, October 24, 2019. Emilio Naranjo/Pool via REUTERSMADRID, June 11 (Reuters) - Forensic scientists will on Monday begin the exhumation of 128 victims of the Spanish Civil War from a vast burial complex near Madrid, El Pais newspaper reported. The remains of some 34,000 people, many of them victims of Franco's regime, are buried anonymously in the complex. Relatives of those whose remains lie inside have been fighting for years to give their loved ones a burial under their own names near their families. In 2016, a court approved the exhumation of the brothers, but seven years later the family is still waiting.

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Persons: Francisco Franco, San Lorenzo de El, Emilio Naranjo, El Pais, Purificacion Lapena, Manuel Lapena, Antonio, Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, Franco, Primo de, Felix Bolanos, Graham Keeley, Jan Harvey Organizations: REUTERS, Falange, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Spanish, Valle, San Lorenzo de, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain, REUTERS MADRID, Madrid , El Pais, Cuelgamuros, Madrid