It was the day before in areas of the 14th Infantry Battalion in the department of Canelones, which functioned as a torture and detention center during this terror regime that has claimed lives since the 1960s and ended in 1985.
The President of the National Institute for Human Rights (Inddhh), Wilder Tyler, confirmed after inspecting the find area that it was “protected for two years” that it was a skull and other bone parts.
The incident was confirmed by Elena Zaffaroni, a member of the organization Madres y Familiares de Detenidos Disaparecidos, a group that, due to the repression, does not lose hope of finding the 192 Uruguayans so far in an unknown destination.
“The work will take many hours. I think days,” Tyler said, adding that anthropologists are working to “get it all out.”
He announced that identification would take longer as DNA tests would certainly have to be used.
At the site, near which other excavations had taken place, were Defense Minister Javier García and Prosecutor for Crimes Against Humanity Ricardo Perciballe.
However, Zaffaroni warned that the location does not correspond to the area where the body of teacher Julio Castro was found in 2011 and a year later the remains of worker Ricardo Blanco, both buried in secret graves at the headquarters of the Uruguayan Battalion 14 Army.
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