After more than two years of inactivity following the breakage of a high-voltage cable, the government reached a tripartite agreement to cover the costs of a new electrical route.
Excavations in the 13th Infantry Battalion are about to be resumed, after the Parliament approve spending of 50 million dollars to cover the work of removing the high-tension cable cut two years ago, which prevented the search from continuing at the site that operated as a clandestine detention and torture center during the last dictatorship.
The discovery and identification of Amelia Sanjurjo in it Battalion 14 It seems to have been the starting point for other actions related to human rights, the search for missing persons and the restoration of identities, to be unblocked.
In this regard, excavations at Battalion 13 will resume in August after more than two years of inactivity, after a backhoe broke a 6,000-volt cable during a maneuver in June 2022. Due to this, work in the area could not continue, but last Wednesday a tripartite agreement was signed to cover the costs of removing said cable between the Ministry of Defence, UTE and the National Human Rights Institution (Inddhh).
“There is a will to do it. We agreed to a tripartite agreement to make a new cable route,” explained the director of Inddhh, Wilder Tyler, in this regard. In May, the costs were estimated at around $50 million.
The importance of continuing the search lies in the fact that “there is testimonies regarding that location and the location is suggestive in itself.” “The testimony indicates that there would have been at least one person who saw a prisoner being led to that area,” Tyler added.
The history of Battalion 13
Located at Av. de las Instrucciones No. 1933, in the neighborhood Penarol of Montevideo, The 13th Infantry Battalion operated as a clandestine detention and torture center from 1972 and possibly until the end of the dictatorship. Currently, the 13th Infantry Battalion operates there. Service Army Transportbut at that time – according to various investigations and testimonies – it worked Material and Armament Service, where the center known as operated 300 Charles either Big Hell.
The remains of a man from the area were found and recovered in 2005. Fernando Miranda, disappeared on November 30, 1997; and between August and October 2019, the remains of Eduardo Bleier Horovitzmilitant of the Communist Party, detained and disappeared also in 1975.
Likewise, they passed through this clandestine detention and torture center Hugo Pereyra Cunha —kidnapped in 1975— and Adolfo Wasem Alanis —kidnapped in 1972—, both murdered by the dictatorship.
Source: Ambito
