\ With the planned exhumations, all the graves of the repression identified as viable will have been intervened.

\ For the first time, psychologists will accompany the victims throughout the exhumation process.

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The Consell de Govern has approved this Monday what will be the IV Plan of Graves and Studies of Democratic Memory of the Balearic Islands. One of the basic objectives of this IV Plan is to complete the exhumation of all the graves identified as viable in the Balearic Islands. In addition, a series of multidisciplinary studies will be carried out in order to delve deeper into all areas related to democratic memory.

The project was approved on 2 June 2022 by the Technical Commission on Graves and Disappeared Persons of the Balearic Islands and is divided into four lots:

Excavation, exhumation and identification of bodies found in graves from the Civil War and Franco’s regime and coordination of the interventions in graves

It includes interventions in eight graves to complete the exhumation of the last graves of Franco’s repression and the murders of civilians that have not yet been completed, and for the first time, it addresses the intervention in war graves.

These interventions are a third and final phase of exhumation in the cemetery of Son Coletes, in Manacor; the first exhumation in Cala Sant Vicenç, in Pollença; the second phase of exhumation in the cemetery of San Francisco de Formentera, and the exhumation of the graves linked to Captain Bayo’s landing in Mallorca, specifically those on the beach of sa Coma; the area of the old hospital de sang; the estate of Son Escrivà, and the interior and exterior of the cemetery of Son Carrió.

Lot 2. Historical studies relating to several mass graves

Includes five historical studies on the viability of a series of graves catalogued as doubtful, which are: a possible grave in a cistern located between the municipalities of Esporles and Bunyola (Mallorca); the grave in the Son Servera cemetery (Mallorca), and the possible graves in Sant Llorenç de Balàfia (Ibiza) and the old cemetery of Sant Francesc, la Mola and los Pujols (Formentera).
It also includes the preparation of a map of graves on Minorca, which will be added to the existing maps of graves on Mallorca, Ibiza and Formentera and will complete the map of graves on the Balearic Islands.

Lot 3. Studies relating to democratic memory in the Balearic Islands

Fifteen multidisciplinary studies will be carried out to study in depth all areas related to democratic memory:

• Study of the places of repression in the Balearic Islands.
• In-depth study of everything related to the disembarkation of Captain Bayo.
• The Balearic Islands and the Valley of the Fallen.
• Study of the bombardment of the forces from the Balearic Islands and the bombardment of the Balearic Islands.
• Study and updating of the census (database) of people killed by Franco’s repression in the Balearic Islands.
• Victims who died in hospitals or in detention.
• Evolution of transgenerational trauma since the 1936 coup d’état in the Balearic Islands.
• Evaluation of the Government’s democratic memory policies in the light of the latest reports by the United Nations Special Rapporteur for truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-repetition and the 2030 Agenda.
• Study on Franco’s memory policies in the Balearic Islands.
• Studies on people’s houses, trade union premises, cooperatives, athenaeums or cultural centres of importance in the democratic and workers’ movement during the Second Republic in the Balearic Islands.
• Air-raid shelters during the Civil War and the post-war period in the Balearic Islands.
• Spaces of memory.
• Archives of democratic memory in the Balearic Islands.
• Germans and Italians were active in repression during the fascist regimes of Hitler and Mussolini in hiding in the Balearic Islands after World War II.
• Exile in the Balearic Islands.
  As the research into the studies of democratic memory and graves progresses, graphic exhibitions will be held with the aim of teaching about the right to guarantees of non-repetition. The studies that will have an exhibition will be the following:
• The places of repression in the Balearic Islands.
• The disembarkation of Captain Bayo.
• Bombardments by air and naval forces from the Balearic Islands and bombardments caused in the Balearic Islands.
• Victims who died in hospitals or in detention.
• Evolution of transgenerational trauma since the 1936 coup d’état in the Balearic Islands.

• The Government’s democratic memory policies in the light of the latest reports by the United Nations Special Rapporteur for truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-repetition and in the light of Agenda 2030.
• Franco’s memory policies.
• Village houses, cooperatives and neighbourhood houses with transcendence in the democratic movement during the Second Republic in the Balearic Islands.
• Air-raid shelters in the Balearic Islands.
• Spaces of Memory.
• Exile in the Balearic Islands.
• Memory and the opening of graves in the Balearic Islands (2014-2022).
• Restoration and consolidation of the materials and objects found in the processes.

Work will continue on the restoration of the objects recovered along with the skeletal remains in the different exhumations with the aim of extending the tasks to all the material recovered on the Islands during the exhumations of the 3rd Plan and so that they can be returned to relatives or be in a future museum section of democratic memory in the Balearic Islands.

All of this will be carried out by working groups of multidisciplinary professionals and under the supervision of the Directorate General for Democratic Memory, the Technical Commission for Graves and Disappeared Persons from the Civil War and Francoism, and the Technical Commission for Democratic Memory and Acknowledgements of the Balearic Islands.

In addition, for the first time, it will include a psychologist to accompany the victims of repression throughout the exhumation process. Likewise, and also for the first time, specialisation in human rights is essential for the implementation of each of the different batches that make up the Plan.