President Luis Lacalle Pou The identification of the skeletal remains found in the Battalion 14 who determined that it was Amelia Sanjurjo, the young pregnant woman who was disappeared during the dictatorship and appreciated that “today a family and the Uruguay everything finds a little more peace.”
Lacalle Pou appreciated that the identity of the remains obtained in June 2023 is known and reaffirmed “the government’s commitment to the search for missing people”, after some time ago the government stated that it was advancing with “all efforts” in identification.
Amelia Sanjurjo, activist of the Communist Party of Uruguay, She was 41 years old and pregnant when she was kidnapped on the street on November 2, 1977 during a police operation. OCOA.
After the discovery of his remains on June 6, 2023, this Tuesday it was confirmed that the results of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF) They identified her 99.9%, according to the prosecutor specializing in Crimes Against Humanity. Ricardo Perciballe.
Identification, in the middle of the claim of Relatives
The identification occurs a few days after the non-governmental organization (NGO) Mothers and Relatives of Detained and Disappeared Uruguayans to complain about the stoppage of excavations due to “bureaucratic” issues.
On the occasion, Ignacio Errandonea, representative of Relatives, explained that, although the Armed forces (FFAA) said that they could work “quietly” in the first instance near the 13th Armored Infantry Battalion, but a backhoe “snagged” a high-tension cable and cut it. “The anthropologists or the driver could have died,” he warned.
On the other hand, Errandonea regretted that after the incident “the excavations were paralyzed, it is a cautious area that must be investigated” and stated: “It has been paralyzed for approximately two years, between Ministry of Defense and UTE “they are passing the ball.”
Finally, he referred to the creation of a section within the General Archive of the Nation for access to the documents of the dictatorship. “We have claimed that there are files that we know about, but we know that there are 3,074 rolls, of which we know only 1,470. We want to know the others,” he concluded.
Source: Ambito
