New bone remains are found on the farm where Stroessner lived

The occupants of an old house of the Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner, in Ciudad del Este, announced the discovery of new bone remains on the farm, even though they are thought to correspond to animals and not to humans .

That's what the director of the Historical Memory and Remediation of the Ministry of Justice, Rogelio Goiburú, said, who asked not to generate false expectations among the families of the victims.

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Goiburú, who heads the research team of missing persons during the Paraguayan dictatorship that led Stroessner (1954-1989) for 35 years, warned that the images that circulated on social networks "clearly show that". it is about animals (of animals) ".

"One is chicken and others could come from other animals, but they are by no means human," he said, according to the DPA news agency. .

However, he asked the prosecutor's office of Ciudad del Este to send a doctor to confirm that it was good animals in order to dispel the doubts of the people, while asking the inhabitants from the farm to warn the authorities before publishing their articles. Networks such results.

When discovering bone on September 4, Goiburu confirmed that it was human remains: "Three skulls, two femurs and one humerus were discovered," he said. . about".

According to a report by the Truth and Justice Commission, around 336 people have reportedly disappeared under Stroessner's dictatorship.

The figure was then raised to 459 by the Department of Historical Memory and Remediation, after gathering testimony, documents and complaints.