A member of the Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory (ARHM), a group of volunteers dedicated to uncovering long-hidden evidence of the killing that followed Spain's Civil War, digs near a human skull in a mass grave close to the village of Mayorga in the northern Spanish province of Valladolid September 3, 2008. Spain's best-known judge Baltasar Garzon, who once came close to extraditing Chile's former dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1998, has asked the Government, Catholic Church and town halls for a complete list of people killed a buried in mass graves during the war from 1936-39 and the subsequent Franco dictatorship. [Agencies]
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