The JEP and the Personal Search Unit given by missing persons remain in the search for missing bodies within the framework of the conflict.
The intervention number 21 ended in the central cemetery of the city of Cúcutamade by the JEP and the search unit given as missing.
This place is considered one of the most important sites of interest nationwide for its volume and history within the framework of the armed conflict.
Despite being a local cemetery, over time It became the arrival point of thousands of unidentified or not claimed bodies, which today rest in vaults or cameras of the place.
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According to the researchers, In the central cemetery approximately 13.4 % of the people given as missing in Norte de Santander are buried.
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Amid the administrative disorder and mismanagement that occurred to the mortal remains of thousands of people whose bodies were not claimed, The JEP and the search unit have advanced thorough interventions, due to the mixture of remains in the same space.
Despite these challenges, unit researchers have determined that 607 bodies have been recovered and referred to Legal Medicine, in 49 points of forensic interest identified by the JEP.
In an interview with the FM and Alert In recent years, 17 bodies recovered from the central cemetery of Cúcuta have been identified, many of them from different regions of the country.
“We have managed to make 17 deliveries worthy of bodies of people given as missing in the framework of the conflict, found in the central cemetery of Cúcuta. Many of these bodies have been sent to various parts of the country, such as Meta, Antioquia and the Atlantic coast, because their relatives were there and were looking for them, ”Amaya said.
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The unit explained that A large part of these processes have been facilitated thanks to the reverse search, which is done once a body is identified and information is crossed with state entities, such as legal medicine.
Amaya also pointed out that, In northern Santander, there are only 1,300 active requests to search for people given as missing, in a universe of at least 5,000 victims.
Given this situation, the precautionary measure is expected to be maintained for at least three more years, taking into account that so far about 11,200 bodies have been examined.
Source: Integrated information system
