Catch decades disappear and now is a national mark

Medellin, Colombia (AP) – Luz Lena Lena Galoano as the earth is cut off to dress, documents, and bone fragments, trusted strife last twenty during the Colombian Medellin city.

It was a daily tradition of Galoano and the other 40 women who took a closer look at the soil in Locbrubera, to find rubbish at Medellin’s edge, where six people were found in the last eight months.

Effort is part of a secure forensic project for the peace-state of peace, the Tribunal established in 2018 and persecuted the cases of Colombia’s dispute, usually in rebellious groups.

The Associated Press has been given access to Escocorberera, where excavated July 2024 confirmed that the site is a lot of grave, because families have been searching for decades.

“You can still see the cords that they were arrested and how all the child was like,” Galuation, Galuation, ages 61, who is looking for her husband after disappearing in 2008.

No one knows how many other bodies there is, but about 500 people have been reported to be lost in that part of the city since 1970s.

“The acquisition of the people’s glands is very important for the country to be crazy,” said spokesman spokesman Medellin State Founded by 2022.

The families have come to show the search for more than 120,000 people disappear in Colombia between 1985 and 2016.

Galeano wants her husband, Luis Javier Laver Salazar, eventually saw on December 9, 2008 he believes that he was buried in Ascombrera and disappeared with paramolities.

The shadow of military activities

Lasta Sccept live in a steady ditch in Comuna 13, a place that was circumcised drug and weapons. By the end of the 1990s, in the next 2000s, was fought by Gersrillas branches and the parameters – groups that appeared to fight left climbers – finally in the end of 2000s.

Between 2001 and 2004, security forces in Colombia did 34 military activities in Comina 13 in the string attempt. Some of these tasks have been carefully examined by human rights violations against the world people, who have been removed by the victims and is now being investigated by special peace.

“La Escobrare was the foundation of at least 2002,” Justice Gustavo Salazar said he led the special Tribunal. “The people who were arrested by these groups were taken there for answered, abused, or simply killed and buried, under the religion that their bodies would never be found.”

According to Salazar, a higher time of disappearance in 2002 is aligning the paramots of parishizes. At the same time, construction waste was condemned in Escubrera, the area was used to remove sand before the waste filled. While believing the Partimatians, the Partyas who are not baders, does not stop that possible that some illegal groups are also hidden there.

The Former Pamelisiah, who have participated in the presentation process since 2003, admitted to killing and burying people in Ascubrera. Later they were convicted.

The court used the evidence, beside the attorney’s images and satellite images, to define the minimum of 2020 – militant after the maturity attempt failed by 2015.

Salazar said the Tribunal investigated the involvement involved in members of Security members, but no charges were included until now in the Isocoprareere case.

The pain will be taken

Margarita Change, 62, you are afraid of fearing her 17-year-old Carol, dashed to Smcubrera, the site would see her in her home every day. The thought that his daughter was so buried depending on the 23-year search years.

Carol disappeared in Oct. 25, 2002, during the operacy, police worked by police, soldiers and plane support at the beginning of President Álvaro Ribe.

The discovery of the dead body of the people in Smcubrorera issued an issue in Colombia. The Conservitative Party CentroSytico renewed the Meribe’s operational service delivery method, argument and disappearance at that time and blamed the Peace Tribunal of political opportunities. In contrast, Colombian president Gustavo Petro, the first left-hand leader, saw it as a verification of the face and high-quality violence.

Stresspopo’s fear was ruled in July when two bodies were found in Escubrera. First, he was told, a young woman aged 16 and 18 years of perfect teeth, “matching her memory of her daughter. Now, you wait for forensic and DNA results.

The authorities received the cemetery as 50 structures, but with the largest bone structures. That has allowed them to be identified and restored to their families.

In the future, when excavation in Scimbera is completed, the search families want the respect for this disappearance.

“We want all these pain to be taken there … and this story is to be told of the truth and respect in the world,” said Servypo.

Despite continuous efforts to search, women are satisfied.

“Since 2001, we have reported that there may be more than 350 bodies, but we did not hear,” Galeano said on the top of the land filling in the neighboring mountain where they believed.

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