In 3 years of searching, Colombia exhumed 28,000 unidentified bodies

Source: Colombia Reports

In 3 years of searching, Colombia exhumed 28,000 unidentified bodies
Posted by Adriaan Alsema on Feb 21, 2016

Three years after forensic prosecutors began looking for unidentified corpses buried in municipal cemeteries, more than 28,000 unidentified bodies, mainly from conflict victims have been found.

The Interior Minister’s Human Rights director, Maria Paulina Riveros, told newspaper El Tiempo on Saturday that of the 25,125 bodies that 4,300 bodies that were identified were never claimed by family members.

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Forensic prosecutors began looking for unidentified corpses after Colombia’s leftist opposition in 2011 demanded a thorough census amid claims that the army had been killing civilians and burying them as unidentified guerrilla fighters.

With tens of thousands of Colombians missing and feared dead, the Ministry of the Interior expects to finish the exhumation and identification of bodies in 2019.




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