Defense Minister Javier García assured that they will not give up until they find an answer about the identity of the detained-disappeared woman.
The minister of Defender, Javier Garcia, referred to the inconclusive identification of the skeletal remains found in the Battalion 14 at the beginning of June and assured that the government will put “all the resources” to find out who was this detained-disappeared woman during the last dictatorship in Uruguay.
“The intention is collaborate in everything that is necessary and make all the resources available to the Prosecutor’s Office to achieve the identification of the skeletal remains”, said the hierarch, and affirmed that “the government puts all the means that are necessary because we don’t want to give up to the circumstances that in the 21st century, with all the technological provisions that exist, not being able to arrive at an answer as important as knowing the identification”.
García indicated that “the path of peace” often has “obstacles” that get in the way, but he assured that when “the vocation is so strong” there is no “obstacle” that can oppose that will.
In this sense, the minister stressed that the Prosecutor’s Office communicate what it needs so that the government makes all its means available. “We are all ready to continue collaborating and that this obstacle can be overcome so that there is a family that finds peace. We know the circumstance in which this person lost his life and was found“, he concluded.
An inconclusive analysis
The skeletal remains found in the Parachute Infantry Battalion No. 14 In the town of Toledo (Cannelloni) remain unidentified, although the anthropologist Alicia Lusiardo confirmed that it is a woman and that it was “a violent death”.
After the remains were sent to Argentina and the subsequent analysis of the Forensic Genetics Laboratory, the identity could not be confirmed, as reported by Lusiardo during a press conference, where he insisted that “this person is a detained disappeared by the context of discovery and injuries found”, referring to the Uruguay’s last military dictatorship. In this context, he clarified that “It would not be about María Claudia García or Elena Quinteros.”
“According to the genetic report, a suitable profile was obtained for comparison with profiles contained in the genetic bank. The remains are female.” explained the anthropologist at a press conference and added that “comparisons have not yielded no statistically significant or conclusive match in terms of identification.
“There are several cases of disappeared women for whom there are few reference samples, resulting in poorly represented identification or exclusion,” said Lusiardio and called “continue working and achieve the necessary steps for the identification of these remains.
Source: Ambito
