Francisco Franco's tomb: Franco is still dead but cleaning up his evil legacy continuesSpain's Supreme Court just declined to rehabilitate one the victims of Spain's military dictatorship that seized power in the 1930s: El doble agravio de Franco al teniente Casado de Manuel Altozano El País 03/08/2007.
Luis Casado Escudero was a survivor of of a battle in which 5,000 Spanish troops under Commander of Julio Benítez in their African colony ("protectorate") of Morocco who were defeated by Berber rebels at Igueriben on July 20, 1921.
This event took place just one day before what became known as "el desastre de Annual", (the Disaster of Annual), after the location in Morrocco where it occurred.
Berber tribal forces led by Abd-el-Krim were opposed by Spanish troops under Ge. Manuel Fernández Silvestre. In the Disaster of Annual, Silvestre was one of 14,000 Spanish casualties in the defeat. The controversy over Spanish losses in Morocco, especially at Annual, was a major factor in the events leading to the dictatorship Miguel Primo de Rivera (1923-1930).
Abd-el-Krim was finally defeated in 1926 by the Spanish army operating jointly with French forces under Marshall Henri-Philippe Pétain.
Honored by the public as a survivor of an horrific defeat, Luis Casado was condemned to death by a military tribunal and was executed on July 23, 1936, in the first days after Francisco Franco's military coup. Franco considered Casado a political enemy. Franco's military revolt began on July 17 of that year in Morocco.
Unfortunately, though Casado's execution is considered by many to have been a travesty of justice, the Spanish Supreme Court found that there were not sufficient legal grounds to overturn his condemnation by the military tribunal. Casado's family had sought to have the decision voided in order to formally rehabilitate Casado's name.
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