The Ministry of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory recently entrusted the HISTAGRA Group of the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, linked to CISPAC, with the elaboration of the State Census of Victims of the Civil War and the dictatorship in the period 1936-1939, in compliance with article 9 of Law 20/2022 of Democratic Memory. The order was formalized through an agreement signed by the rector of the USC, Antonio López, and the Secretary of State for Democratic Memory, Fernando Martínez López.
With the aim of coordinating and specifying the terms of the project, the USC research team, led by Lourenzo Fernández Prieto and Antonio Míguez Macho, met this Friday at the CISPAC facilities with a ministerial delegation headed by the General Director of Victim Assistance, Zoraida Hijosa, accompanied by the director of the Exhumations Division, Jaime del Rey Gómez-Morata, and the head of area of the General Directorate, José Luis Muñoz Romano.
During the meeting, the work and follow-up teams were defined, as well as the composition of the advisory committees, which will be made up of specialists from various Spanish and Latin American universities. The first steps for the creation of a national database that will recompile the results of the project were also initiated.
At the end of the meeting in Santiago, the delegation went to Vilagarcía de Arousa to visit the memorial of the Rubiáns cemetery, inaugurated in December 2024 after the exhumation of the mass grave carried out within the framework of the Galician Democratic Memory Plan 2021-2024. There they were received by the mayor of the town, Alberto Varela.
