The Directorate for Research and Memory of the Undersecretary of Human Rights of the province of Buenos Aires resumed the tasks of identifying people who had disappeared due to State terrorism and summoned relatives of the disappeared so that they leave a blood sample In order to advance in the identification of 600 exhumed bodies of victims of the last civic-military dictatorship.
The initiative, which is resumed after having paralyzed during the management of María Eugenia Vidalsummons relatives of persons who disappeared between 1974 and 1983 to donate blood in any of the 77 Buenos Aires hospitals and thus be able to identify remains.
Victor Hugo Diaz, member of the Directorate of Research and Memoryin dialogue with Radio Provincia, indicated that they seek to arm genetic data file to identify 600 people whose bodies were exhumed from different cemeteries.
“This project started in 2007but in the four years of macrismo it was frozen and now, after the pandemic, we are taking it up again,” said Díaz.
In this context, he pointed out that the Ministry of Health “made the more than 70 provincial hospitals available for extractions” and said that they work with the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team “Those who recovered democracy took on this task” of identifying the bodies of people who disappeared during the last civic-military dictatorship.
Díaz explained that they need “in all these years 1,400 remains of people kidnapped, murderedof which 800 could be identified, but still 600 is NN“.
People who are interested in donating blood or contributing data can contact the Undersecretary of Human Rights at 221-5045336 or with him Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team at 0800-3453236.
You can also contact via email at [email protected] .
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