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After 89 years, the family has recovered the remains of a militia killed in the Civil War and buried in the Amorebieta cemetery

The Alavés Jesus Arratibel Ruiz De Alegría died at the military hospital in Amorebieta, where he was buried. At the initiative of the Gogora Institute, the remains of the 149 people buried were removed and, following an identification process, handed over to their relatives today.
Jesus Arratibel Ruiz De Alegria milizianoaren gorpuzkiak (1936an hil zuten) jaso ditu familiak
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Arratibel Ruiz de Alegría with the remains. Photo: Irekia

The relatives of an Alavese NTC militia killed in the Civil War and buried in the cemetery in Amorebieta (Bizkaia) have collected their remainsthis afternoon, after 89 years. In the cemetery in Alegría (Álava), representatives of the Basque Government and the mayorofAlegría have returned the remains of Jesus Arratibel Ruiz de Alegría in an emotional act.

Arratibel Ruiz De Alegría, a native of Zalduon, died on 5 December 1936 at the Amorebieta Military Hospital, a combatant of the "Malatesta" battalion of the anarchist union CNT, who was buried after his death in the village cemetery. 

Promotedby the Gogora Institute (Program for the Search for Missing Persons during the Civil War), the remains of 149 people were exhumed in the Amorebieta cemetery in 2024, and so far five militiamen have been identified and handed over to their families.

The event was attended by Maria Jesús San José Justicia y Derechos Humanos, Alberto Alonso Memoria, director of the Institute for Coexistence and Human Rights and Joseba Koldo Garitagoitia Dulantzi.

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