Work begins to exhume the bodies of victims of the invasion of Panama

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(CNN Spanish) - On Monday a group of experts began the tasks to exhume the bodies of some victims of the 1989 invasion of Panama, carried out by the US government, and remain unidentified in a cemetery in the capital city .

The Commission December 20, 1989, which works to clarify the events that occurred during the US military intervention that ended the dictatorship of former general Manuel Antonio Noriega, convicted of drug trafficking, has 31 cases of unidentified or missing persons, so in May In 2018, it requested the Public Ministry to reopen the summaries, in particular 15 of them. In
July 2019, the Commission was authorized to carry out the investigation of 14 files.

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This Monday, the cleaning and measurement work was carried out in the Garden of Peace, a site where according to the authorities and the commission, the pit where the unidentified remains remain.

The intervention, which will be carried out only with spikes and shovels and not with heavy equipment, will be in charge of the International Committee of the Red Cross, and the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team. The Commission announced that the work will take about 60 days.

While a group of relatives of the disappeared remains pending of possible results on the first day of work, another threat to sue if the graves of their deceased are intervened, which are identified.

The Commission December 20, 1989 defends the right of those who do not know where the remains of their relatives are and ensures that they will only intervene in the area where the unidentified are and for this they use a detailed map of the place.

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