Madrid - Pressure is mounting in Spain to settle accounts with the 1939-75 dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, with critics seeing government measures to rehabilitate his victims as half-hearted.
The government "forgot the state's responsibility to investigate human rights violations," the human rights group Amnesty International charged, but government representatives stressed its commitment to redressing the injustices of the Franco era.
In 2007, Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's Socialist government passed the Law of Historic Memory, aimed at restoring dignity to leftists killed during the 1936-39 civil war and Franco's subsequent dictatorship.