In the modern era, it is understood that the type of violence women experienced in the Spanish Civil War is common, having occurred throughout history in places like Troy and into the modern day in places like Darfur. Spain's has been criticized for "the complete forgetfulness within the law of the Historical Memory of the crimes against humanity against republican women." Prior to the 1990s, there was no way to tell in Spain that number of women who were killed by their boyfriends or husbands. The abuse and murder of women in Spain was a form of sexist terrorism and claimed more victims than that of ETA. "El caso de los niños perdidos del franquismo" by Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Arias ends with a demand that the Spanish government start "the opening of an effective and independent official investigation of all its crimes, as required by the European Court of Human Rights, which will lead to the clarification of the facts and the criminal prosecution of those responsible."