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The discovery of bone remains
In a military property in Uruguay with characteristics similar to the other four bodies found in the past, this infers a modus operandi of the dictatorship and increases the chances that it will do so. of a missing prisoner. The discovery concerned the former Armored Infantry Battalion No. 13 of Montevideo, as part of the tasks performed by the Research Group on Forensic Archeology of Uruguay. DNA samples will be sent to Córdoba, Argentina, for identification.

"Yesterday, we had the first indication that we were going to attend a funeral, we had a very large lime fragment resulting from the work of the backhoe and we worked with quality material," he said. Anthropologist Alicia Lusiardo, coordinator of the Forensic Archeology Inquiry Group of Uruguay. The bodies covered with lime are the common factor for all those found in recent years in different districts of the Uruguayan Armed Forces. The anthropologist reported that the body, belonging to an adult, was complete and that, next to it, there was a textile material that would be a shirt. "It is a burial pattern that is repeated: individual, complete, with a lot of limestone above and between 80 centimeters and a meter deep," he said. Lusiardo explained that the use of lime burrs had been used to speed up the process of decomposition and that the army was seeking to erase all evidence of disappearances. However, lime also gives the bones a longer life.

The discovery took place on the border between Battalion No. 13 and Miguelete Creek. This is 130,000 square meters that were not completely collected during the excavations of 2005 and 2006. Work was in progress on unbadysed areas. "It's a routine job that's been done for years and it's happened during an important and intense search," said Crimes Against Humanity Prosecutor Ricardo Perciballe. Within a hundred meters of where the remains of the skeleton were found, the body of a missing detainee, communist activist Fernando Miranda, was found in 2005. The research takes seven years of constant work by the team of anthropologists.

The criminal judge, Isaura Tórtora, also told the press that the body would remain under the custody of the presidency and that a sample would be sent to a laboratory in Córdoba, Argentina, where a payroll will collect the money. DNA and progress. Your username

The concern of the relatives of the missing was such that noon yesterday, they had already seized Uruguayan justice to obtain permission to enter the battalion. When all seemed normal, with the vehicles of the executive power that transferred the members of the organization Mothers and parents of missing detainees, the army refused the judge who authorized them personally. They had to wait an hour and a half to enter.

Family members have complained to the authorities that they are continuing research on the former army site. "We need to intensify the research because we're going to find them all, especially in (Battalion) 13, there's a lot of data that there could be more burials." We need to step up research to find them. "Ignacio told the press Errandonea, a member of the organization. He pointed out that he did not doubt the political will to find the missing under the de facto government (1973-1985), the search requiring a significant sum of money. "I do not doubt the political will.What we do, we understand that we must deepen the research, because at the rate we are moving, we are going very, very slowly," he concluded.

According to estimates, there are about 200 people missing after the dictatorship, among men, women and children. Only four people were found buried, but it is believed that about 22 people could be and half of them in battalion No. 13. The capture of people took place not only on the Uruguayan territory, but also in Argentina, as part of what has become known as the Condor Plan.