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Víznar IV (Llanos de Corbera), Granada (2016). This area had open wells and a shooting range during the years of repression. There may be as many as 400 victims at the bottom of these wells, among them Lorca, shot 17 or 18 August 1936.Cementerio de San José, Granada (2016). Manuel Carmona Ruiz, 35, a metallurgist and trade unionist was accused of illegal possession of weapons and executed here on 15 August 1936 at 5 am. Between 1936 and 1956, 3.969 people were executed at the walls of the cemetery.

Barranco del Carrizal, Órgiva, Granada (2016). On 11 August 1936, Manuel López López, deputy mayor of Lanjarón, and his sons Antonio and Félix, were shot by the Guardia Cívil and Falangists and disappeared here. Some 4.000 people were killed and buried in quicklime in this ravine.

Manuel López López, deputy mayor of Lanjarón, and his sons Antonio and Félix were executed by the Guardia Cívil and Falangists and disappeared. A third son, Miguel, was killed 27.8.1936 a bit futher down in Torvizcón. A fourth son, Germinal, was executed 25.1.1945 at the cemetery wall in Granada. Manuel, the youngest son and car mechanic as his father, survived. At the end of 1975 he celebrated Franco's death shaving his moustache, than welding together this cross and installing it at the ravine. Since 1936 some 4,000 people were killed and buried in quicklime in this ravine. Trucks arrived full of prisoners from the fall of Malaga, the towns of the Alpujarra and the Granada coast, they shot them and kicked their bodies into the common graves. Human remains appear after heavy rains. The government built contention walls at the site of the mass-graves to prevent "waste" from reaching the reservoir at the end of the ravine.

18 August 2016
Barranco del Carrizal, Órgiva, Granada (2016). On 11 August 1936, Manuel López López, deputy mayor of Lanjarón, and his sons Antonio and Félix, were shot by the Guardia Cívil and Falangists and disappeared here. Some 4.000 people were killed and buried in quicklime in this ravine.

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