They found bone remains in Uruguay and assume that …

Uruguayan society is in shock. The Research Group on Forensic Archeology of Uruguay (GIAF) has discovered bone remains that belong to people who disappeared during the military dictatorship. The discovery took place on the ground of the 13th Armored Infantry Battalion, in which the work of scientists has been concentrated since 2005 and where the remains of the Uruguayan Communist Party activist, Fernando Miranda, had already been discovered while They were looking for the remains of María García Iruretagoyena de Gelman.

"It was not possible to determine whether he was a man or a woman. You must now clean the body, then a DNA sample is extracted: one for the Forensic Technical Institute and one for Argentina. It is likely that the identification takes more than 15 days, "said Uruguayan prosecutor Ricardo Perciballe. As explained by the state representative on the remains, skull and clavicle until the last report, "lime was found on top", common medium used by the military during the dictatorship to try to disintegrate the bodies. the battalion field 13 operated a clandestine detention center called "300 Carlos" or "Big Hell".

From 2005, with the arrival of Frente Amplio to the presidency, during the first term of Tabaré Vázquez, the fate of the disappeared began to be the subject of an investigation. The barracks was opened to verify evidence that some bodies had been thrown for military reasons. The military and part of the Uruguayan political clbad have denied any such possibility. However, on December 2, 2005, in the same battalion 13, were found remains that were later identified as Fernando Miranda, a communist activist who died in 1975 and father of the current president of Frente Amplio, Jorge Miranda. Near where Miranda was found, they found the remains that had begun to be processed for identification purposes.

According to the Uruguayan Human Rights Secretariat, 192 citizens disappeared during the military dictatorship that remained in power between 1973 and 1985. Only four of them were identified: Fernando Miranda Pérez and Ubagesner Chaves Sosa in 2005, Julio Castro Pérez in 2011 and Ricardo Alfonso Blanco Valiente 2012. All were found on military grounds without data because the pact of military silence and the current law of expiry do not allow the State to seek the tools necessary to cope with the needs of memory, truth and justice. close to the disappeared and for Uruguayan society.