The Unit for the Search of Persons Considered Missing -UBPD- recovered eight unidentified bodies in the cemetery from the municipality of Urrao, southwest Antioquia, which could correspond to persons who disappeared in the context of the armed conflict between 2009 and 2011.
During the humanitarian action, in which the semicircular gallery of the cemetery was intervened, relatives of the victims, the San José de Urrao parish, the municipal hospital and signatories of the Peace Agreement participated to provide relevant information for the search.
“These humanitarian actions -which include the collection and analysis of information; the recovery of the bodies, the participation of the victims and the promotion of their identification- aim to contribute to the satisfaction of the right to the truth about the fate and whereabouts of the disappeared persons of the armed conflict, and to the reparation of the people who are looking for them ”, added Luz Marina Monzón Cifuentes, director of the Search Unit.
As part of the extrajudicial investigation of this intervention, starting in May 2021, the UBPD conducted interviews with information contributors and accessed files and autopsies, as well as burial and death records, in which decisive data was recorded for the investigation. search for the disappeared persons, including the dates of entry of the bodies to the cemetery and physical characteristics of the victims.
The entity reported that from the crossing and analysis of the information it was possible to establish the identity hypotheses of five of the bodies, one of which would correspond, according to its biological characteristics, to a female person who died in 2010. The ages of the victims ranged in age from 20 to 35 at the time of their deaths.
The bodies of the victims had signs of violence, mainly multiple fractures that correspond to possible wounds caused by a firearm projectile. This information was recorded in the autopsy records and some of the characteristics were verified by the UBPD during the recovery of the bodies.
For now, the bone structures were made available to the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences for identification.
“What many families are interested in is having their loved ones, burying them, knowing where they are, where they can put a tombstone and some flowers. And from now on I am going to help as much as I can to contribute to the search for people who are still missing and who may be in this cemetery, ”said the gravedigger of the San José de Urrao cemetery garden, who asked to keep her name. in reserve.
This search is part of the Regional Plan for the Center of Antioquia – southwest chapter – which is being built by the UBPD together with organizations and people who are searching – which includes a universe under construction of 1,624 missing persons and at least 231 correspond to the municipality of Urrao.
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