The National Institution of Human Rights (INDDHH) will carry out excavations in a basement of a Post Office building in Ciudad Vieja in search of a corpsereported by a health worker who worked there and spotted a body in the 90sas reported by La Diario and confirmed to The Observer the director of the organization Mariana Mota.
The institute must meet with the Ministry of the Interior to establish the necessary vigilance to start the excavationMota explained. There is no set date so far. to start work there.
The director of El Correo, Jorge Pozzi, told The Observer what the data on the corpse reached the institution “in the fourth quarter of last year.”
According to the director, the delay in investigating the data and beginning the excavation is due to multiple factors: first it was due “coordinate with the informant to go to the place to indicate where it was”then difficulties arose because the place “until recently it was an office and only very recently was it disaffected from such uses”and as a last point it was due “coordinate the precautionary request and that it be granted”.
One year of process
“It was during the government of Lacalle Herrera. I was working on a renovation of the building. I had to break the floor and lift it. When lifting some bricks, the bones appeared”, the toilet told La Diaria, adding that in that basement there was a kind of cell with an MLN star (Tupamaros) on one wall.
At that time neither he nor a colleague who accompanied him spoke about the issue out of fear, but when the Broad Front came to power he was encouraged to tell the story. He approached Javier Miranda, but assured that he ignored the information. The Observer tried to contact the former president of the Broad Front but did not receive a response. He also gave his testimony to Archbishop Daniel Sturla.
On June 2020, the health worker reported that he met with the Minister of Defense, Javier García, who explained that he should contact the INDDH. On March 2021 contacted one of the directors of the institute, Wilder Tayler, and began the process within the institution.
In August 2021 they visited the basement and the worker He detailed that he marked the place where he found the bonesfact that repeated in January 2022on a visit with three anthropologists. “There they told me that they were not going to need me anymore. And I want to be present”, criticized the toilet.
