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The Spanish government says it will take responsibility for making a census of the victims of the civil war and the ensuing dictatorship.

A Spanish court on Friday halted the opening of the mass graves of victims of Spain's 1936-39 civil war and its ensuing dictatorship.

The case on Jan . 31dates from October 2008, when Judge Garzón started a politically sensitive investigation into tens of thousands of deaths and disappearances during the civil war and the ensuing dictatorship of Francisco Franco.

He dug deeply into corruption cases and ordered an inquiry into atrocities committed during the Spanish Civil War and the ensuing dictatorship of Gen. Francisco Franco, despite a 1977 general amnesty for crimes perpetrated during the war.

Francisco Franco's ensuing dictatorship suppressed all regional aspirations for decades, but after his death Spain adopted a democratic constitution in 1978 giving considerable autonomy to all 17 of the country's regions, including Catalonia.

MADRID — Baltasar Garzón, a crusading human rights judge who was convicted this month of illegally ordering a wiretap in a corruption case, was cleared on Monday by the Spanish Supreme Court in a separate case of having abused his powers by investigating atrocities committed during the Spanish Civil War and the ensuing dictatorship of Francisco Franco.

Tanks rolled into the center of Athens; politicians, artists and journalists were arrested; and the ensuing military dictatorship lasted for seven years.

Mr. Garzón had also tried to investigate crimes committed during the Spanish civil war and the ensuing Franco dictatorship, among other politically delicate cases.

The civil war, the ensuing Franco dictatorship and the eventual transition to democracy on the general's death in 1975 all marked the life of Pernau.

"It is historic," said Maria Arcenegui Siemens, spokeswoman for the Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory, which supports victims of Spain's 1936-1939 civil war and the ensuing 36-year dictatorship.

The move appeared to signal a victory for Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright and other advocates of a broad disclosure of the American role in the overthrow of the Socialist government of President Salvador Allende and in the ensuing 17-year dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet.