Experts Legal Medical Service (SML) On Monday, historical excavations began in search of the remains of the disappearing detainees in Cerro Sina, Military barracks of dictatorship Augusto Pinochet (1973-19), located on the outskirts of the Chilean capital, which until it was investigated before two years ago.
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The place opened early in the morning, and it took the researchers only an hour to trace the first archaeological grid, a piece of land indicated as a priority in which they later began to dig.
“This is the most important zeal of all those who were made. Currently, excavations in the heart of the military barracks, who until today remain active, with the presence of relatives, professionals, surviving experts and a full court, is the historical fact that we fought with for many years, ”said the president of the Memorial of Clete Corporation, Manic Monsalves.
The task is difficult: Floor Barracks No. 2 In intelligence, this is solid, stony and extremely dry, chuzos and shovels penetrate with difficulties, and each gram of remote land should be investigated with great meticulousness, each grain was observed and palpated in its passage through Garnero to distinguish possible residues of the bones.
“We have all the expectations that we want to find fingerprints. It is important that today we get specific answers, because if we find nothing, we can at least relax, knowing that everything that had to be done in this place was done, ”added Monsalvest.
In addition to manual utensils, manipulated by archaeologists and anthropologists that work on this subject, zeal has a mini-denture-existence that undermines the most compact surface, all this is a part of a large team, which will only stand out in this fabric 100 hours this week to complete the searchField
Possible secret cemetery
After various sections of Cerro Cena using Georradar were considered in February, a device that can detect anomalies with a depth of about four meters, five priority points for excavations were installed in this Possible “underground cemetery”, It is indicated as such witnesses.
Four of these places are around the old rural school, which acted as a center of detention and torture shortly after the blow Augusto Pinochet in September 1973, The undermining structure of some 50 meters For a long time, around the perimeter, in accordance with various evidence, the bodies and burning bodies were spent at the end of that year.
“We hope to put the end of this background of the school in one of the rooms where anomalies were also discovered, in addition to the point in the metropolitan park and under the basis of the house, which acted as a center of detention,” said the magistrate responsible for the case, Marianel Ciffuentes.
However, in principle, they are considered only Two weeks of excavationsThus, according to CIFUENTES, “it is likely that additional proceedings should be carried out in the second half of this year.”
Double disappearance in the barracks
About twenty people were final Ingumation and exhumation Illegally agricultural worker Manuel Silva CarreinoEveryone is present in the Ansiats of really family members.
“Perhaps the remains are left, because they took the bodies from here to hide them again, and some traces may remain,” said the survivor Chen Ricardo Clapp Santa -Krus, recalling the operation “Removing TVs”, a maneuver in the dictatorship, to remove secret bodies, hidden and prevent the search after the ends of Bowz in 197888.
Gradually requests in this cape, located 25 kilometers south of Santiago, Earth where he controls the part Army reconnaissance section And who, thanks to the tireless direction of families and friends for more than half a century, has come in a little more light today in order to finally know where they are.
With information EFE.
