By NNN-Prensa Latina
Lima : The People’s Defense Office in Peru reported 1,253 new cases of disappeared persons until last September, now totalling 8,559 thousand persons disappeared due to internal violence.
The new statistic corresponds to disappearances registered during the internal war of the last two decades that had not been denounced for fear or other reasons.
The cases discovered are added to the 8,558 included in the report of the Truth Commission that investigated the so-called dirty war with which the State did not comply, according to the investigators.
In the meantime, the director of the Legal Medicine Institute (LMI), Luis Bromley, argued for funds before the Congressional Budget Commission, to search for the disappeared.
The funds, about 500 thousand dollars, would go to finance a national plan of forensic research allowing identification of remains and answering demands of family who lost their loved ones in the conflict.
Currently the LMI has no money to investigate remains found in common graves in different points of the Peruvian Andes.
The issue of disappeared was the subject of a meeting of experts with Santiago Corcuera, Chairman Rapporteur of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances.
The specialist stressed the duty of States to effectively search for the remains of disappeared and give assistants to families of the victims, whose mourning does not end with a sentence against the guilty.