被遗忘的悲剧

In september, 1936 the last enclaves in the southwest of Extremadura were about to be captured by the risen army troops. In view of this situation, a group of some thousand people try to get away from terror and death escaping in a organized way towards the republican setting of Azuaga. A lot of them were running away because of their political ideas, others simply because they were afraid. The column was attacked in a place near the villages of Reina and Fuente del Arco and about 80 people died. In the middle of confusion and horror, the column divided. Some were able to pass, others got lost in the nearby mountains and most of them tried to get back in their own steps but were made prisioners when they arrived to their birth places. Many of these were shot.These events were title page in the newspaper Hoy and appeared in a report in the Sevilla edition of the ABC paper. They were also mentioned by Miguel Hernández in one of this writings and in Queipo de Llano's broadcasting in Radio Sevilla. It is curious that they hardly appear in History books.