The official’s statements came after excavations were resumed on Monday in a military property, where the remains of one of the women who disappeared at the hands of the dictatorship (1973-1985) were found on June 6, according to forensic studies.

However, last Friday, the anthropologist in charge of the search group, Alicia Luisardo, informed that it was impossible to identify the remains in a specialized laboratory in Rosario, Argentina.

According to Perciballe, there are not enough family members to identify 18 of those who make up the group of 192 missing detainees in Uruguay.

This is the situation regarding the skeletons found in June in the grounds of Army Battalion 14 in the department of Canelones, where the remains of an educator and a communist militant murdered by the dictatorship were found in previous years.

The prosecutor told Radio Sarandí that there are six missing women about whom there is no information that could allow comparative DNA tests.

“There are still other relatives missing, and over the weekend we made progress in the identification of these,” the prosecutor added.

Anthropologist Luisardo explained that in order to identify the victims vertical donors are privileged; that is to say, mother or child of the missing person.

“But not all families have that donor. Some have a sibling, a nephew or a grandchild. We have to study what the situation case by case to complement that donation,” she explained.

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