[NYTr] Uruguay: Anthropologists Search for "Disappeared" in Hidden Graves at Military Site
 
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:50:26 -0500 (CDT)

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Hidden Tombs Searched in Uruguayan Military Site

Montevideo, Oct 23 (Prensa Latina) A group of anthropologists is now
searching for remains of Uruguayan citizens disappeared during the
1973-1985 military dictatorship in areas belonging to the 1st Artillery
Group in the department of Canelones.

Led by Professor Jose Lopez Mazz, experts have already dug for more
than 60 days in La Tablada, a zone outside Montevideo, where the
offices of an organization for anti-subversive operations were located,
but so far their efforts have not been successful.

Between 1980 and 1984 the bodies of several Uruguayan people opposed to
the military dictatorship were taken to this place.

During these years, 200 Uruguayans were murdered; most of them while
they were arrested and transferred to Uruguay from Argentina, where
military had also the control of the government.

The transfer and possible execution of these people was part of the
notorious Operation Condor, coordinated between the governments of
Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil, Uruguay and Venezuela to eliminate
their opponents.

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