The Franco regime condoned mass rape, torture and killing of Republican women and their kids – and the mindset has never been confronted
from thefreeonline on 7th Aug 2024 by Tulio Riomesta at Documentalismo Memorial – ( on Telegram: https://t.me/thefreeonline)
“Francoism exercised a HARSH SEXUAL VIOLENCE against REPUBLICAN women
“Our brave legionaries and regulars have taught the cowardly reds what it means to be a man. Communist and anarchist women also deserve it, haven’t they been playing free love? Now they will know what real men are and not gay militiamen. They will not get away no matter how much they struggle and kick.”
“The direct legacy of the current “rule of law” includes Francoist extermination, perfectly accepted, normalised by the current system. Here “nothing has happened”.
“Gonzalo Queipo de Llano, military coup leader. As Franco’s advances, Republican women were victims of considerable cruelty, systematically raped, tortured and murdered. Those who survived prison suffered serious physical and mental after-effects for life.
Thousands were repeatedly raped, harassed, sexually abused, humiliated with shaved heads, ingested with castor oil to induce public defecation, dragged and forced to walk naked or feathered through the streets, in prisons they suffered beatings, torture, murder. Most Republican women suffered serious economic and psychological problems after their husbands, fathers, brothers and sons were killed or forced to flee.
Women were raped, tortured and murdered in countless places, in the courtyard of the hospital in Oviedo, or in the Melilla prison by the Falangists. The Civil Guard corporal Juan Vadillo and the Falangist Fernando Zamacola raped women in Benamahoma, the latter was decorated.
Among the Republican prisoners in Aznalcóllar, there was a mother and her daughter in an advanced state of pregnancy, who gave birth while she was being shot. The Francoists who came to shoot him killed the newborn with rifle butts.
In Moguer, the rebels raped women and 12-year-old girls, the young girls repeatedly. There were fascists who took advantage of the gruesome opportunity to commit bloody acts and rapes. The soldiers who stayed in the houses of poor families frequently took advantage of the unprotected women in the house.
The military authorities could have stopped the violence but they allowed it to happen. The story of the abuses of the 17-year-old Isabel García Suárez in Tirana is horrifying.
In Peguerinos, regulars and Falangists raped 2 nurses and several women. In Fuente de Cantos they killed many women, several pregnant, after raping them. The same occurred in Zafra and in Almendralejo, el Aguacho, in Fuente del Maestre, Boecillo, Valdedios, Pallars Sobirá, Zufre, Sierra Sur de Sevilla, and a long etcetera.
In Navalmoral a group of Republicans were handed over to Moroccan gangs who gang-raped them, a common practice. In Navalcarnero they handed over 2 girls under 20 years old to 40 Moorish soldiers, a Moroccan officer commented: “They will not live more than 4 hours.” In Cantalpino the Falangists raped Mrs. Alejandra in front of her husband.
In Calanda there were numerous rapes, a woman was beaten to death. In Maials, the Regulars raped at least 4 women. In a farmhouse, a young woman and her mother were raped and stabbed.
In Callús, the Regulars raped a woman, her daughter and a cousin, then killed them with bayonets. In Jerez they raped the teacher Carmen Hombre.
Nearby, in Marganell, 2 women were raped by Regulars, who were then killed by placing grenades between their legs. In Cantalpino they raped several girls.
They even raped and murdered girls like Maravillas Lamberto in Sartaguda.
In San Roque, an anarchist was shot after all the Moors in the firing squad had raped her. The rapes that occurred when the Moorish hordes freely indulged in pillage and rape in Seville were horrifying, Queipo de Llano delighted in recounting them in his radio talks.
In El Gastor, 40 women were abused, including the wife of a socialist councillor and her 21-year-old daughter. She was brutally mistreated and lost her unborn child, went blind and died shortly after due to torture.
Abuse was frequent in police stations. In prisons or concentration camps, the Falangists took out and raped young women. Sometimes they marked their breasts with the yoke and arrows of the Falangist.
Many were left pregnant by their guards. When a pregnant woman was to be executed, her death was often postponed until she gave birth, and her child was kidnapped for adoption.
Captain Manuel Díaz Criado, the supervisor of repression in Seville, used his position to demand sexual gratification. Queipo’s head of propaganda, Antonio Bahamonde, only received young women in his office. The sexual abuse and suffering of survivors of repression continued beyond their widowhood.
Republican women had no Right to honour. Indecent assaults and rapes were very numerous in all the prisons.
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