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Ten Killed in Shelling of Madrid
Madrid, Dec. 12—(AP)—Ten persons were killed today and at least a score wounded as insurgent batteries threw round after round of shrapnel into the center of the Spanish capital. The government ordered out its militia reserves to stem double-edged insurgent thrust at the capital's defenses. While Fascist battalions struck from the northeast and the west, a Socialist communique listed important victories far to the north in Asturias province, on the Bay of Biscay. A new offensive, the government said, captured several towns. Fascists suffered heavy losses, the communique declared.
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Bombing of Guernica
On 26 April 1937, the Basque town of Guernica (Gernika in Basque) was aerially bombed during the Spanish Civil War. It was carried out at the behest of Francisco Franco's rebel Nationalist faction by its allies, the Nazi German Luftwaffe's Condor Legion and the Fascist Italian Aviazione Legionaria, under the code name Operation Rügen. The operation opened the way to Franco's capture of Bilbao and his victory in northern Spain.
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The siege of Madrid was a two-and-a-half-year siege of the Republican-controlled Spanish capital city of Madrid by the Nationalist armies, under General Francisco Franco, during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). The Battle of Madrid in November 1936 saw the most intense fighting in and around the city when the Nationalists made their most determined attempt to take the Republican capital.
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While the first three conventions dealt with combatants, the Fourth Geneva Convention was the first to deal with humanitarian protections for civilians in a war zone. There are currently 196 countries party to the 1949 Geneva Conventions.
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