The relatives of one of the victims of the invasion of Panama on December 20, 1989, identified through DNA, received his remains from the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation, represented by the Superior District Attorney for Homicide and Femicide, Cesar Pereira, the December 20 Commission and the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences (IMELCF).
These are the remains of Mr. Ismael Dorcy, who could not be identified in any other way, after 33 years. With the use of DNA, two human remains were sent to Guatemala, one of them corresponded to Mr. Dorcy; and the other could not be identified.
The president of the Commission of December 20, for his part, Rolando Murgas Torraza, indicated that the identification work will continue to be carried out in coordination with the Public Ministry so that it can be done in Panama, with the collaboration of Guatemala.
It is a specialized work that was carried out with the skeletal remains through the chain of custody, highlighted the IMELCF staff who were present at the delivery of the remains, the anthropologists Adán Hernández and Osbaldo Fernández and the forensic doctor, Celina Chiari.
Superior Prosecutor Cesar Pereira pointed out that from the anthropological point of view there are other pending cases to be resolved by the authorities of the IMELCF, the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation and the Commission of December 20; in addition, other institutions that also support to achieve the identification of the largest possible number of victims.
These exhumations that were carried out by the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation, in the Garden of Peace and in the Monte Esperanza cemetery, in the province of Colón, are proceedings that were carried out by order of the Second Superior Court of Justice that resolved the request to reopen 14 files of victims of the United States invasion of Panama, who have not been adequately documented
