The remains found in Uruguay belong to a militant …

It has been confirmed that the remains found in an army battalion
The Uruguayans belong to the communist militant Eduardo Bleier Horovitz. The body was found last August in the No. 13 Battalion of the Army, where a clandestine detention and torture center was set up during the civil-military dictatorship of Uruguay (1973- 1985). Bleier had been missing since 1975, after being arrested by the dictatorial government.

On August 27, the Forensic Archeology Investigation Group of Uruguay (GIAF) found bone remains in the former battalion of the Uruguayan army. When the body was removed, a DNA sample was taken from the laboratory of the Argentine team of forensic anthropology. There, they performed the necessary checks with the samples constituting their database. The study allowed us to know for sure who the person had been found.

Eduardo Bleier was born in 1927 and was arrested by the dictatorial government in 1975, at age 47. He was the leader of the Communist Party and a member of the central committee of the party. In 1975, he was responsible for clandestine propaganda. He was married and had four children. "Operation Morgan" is the operation created by the Uruguayan dictatorship to put an end to recognized political opponents, notably the Communist Party. Once arrested in Montevideo, Bleier – aka "Enrique" – was brought to the 300 Carlos R Detention Center, then to the 300 Carlos, also called "Big Hell". According to the report of the Commission for Peace 2003, he died between 1 and 5 July 1976, as a result of torture in this detention center. With Bleier were arrested other leaders such as notary Fernando Miranda, Juan Manuel Brieba, Julio Gerardo Correa, Carlos Arevalo, Otermín Montes, Horacio Gelós and Lorenzo Julio Escudero, among others.

As explained by the member of the group of mothers and relatives of missing detainees, Juan Errandonea, the confirmation of identity was confirmed by the coordinator of the working group on Truth and Justice, Felipe Michelini . Once Michelini and the judge of the case, Isaura Tórtora, found out, they went to the Bleier family's house to communicate the information. His son Gerardo Bleier reported the discovery of his father's body via social networks. "He has always been there … until we find him," he wrote on Twitter, saying that he had spoken to President Tabaré Vázquez.

Errandonea said that her organization will wait for the family's decision regarding any act or announcement and will adapt to what she wants to do. After the news, they issued a statement recognizing all the people who, during those years, had accompanied the research "with different positions and responsibilities". "Contrary to the above, there is a group of criminals who, knowing they are unpunished, deny the truth they know. To make our loved ones disappear, to torture them and to kill them is an act of infinite cruelty. Keeping them until today is the perverse consequence of crime. , which corroborates the permanent nature of enforced disappearance, "the statement added.

On the huge military site where Bleier was, excavation work was carried out since 2005. The same year, the body of the militant also communist Fernando Miranda was found on the spot. In 2006, on a farm in Pando, the remains of Ubagesner Chavez Sosa appeared. In 2011 and 2012, battalion 14 found the remains of maestro Julio Castro and merchant Ricardo Blanco Valiente. according to
estimates, there are today about 200 people – men, women and
The children disappeared after the dictatorship.

The declaration of mothers and relatives of missing detainees calls for continuing to fight for their loved ones. "With the conviction that we will meet them all, we will continue to seek the truth, honor the memory of the missing, seek justice and work for the Nevermore," he concludes.