According to these organizations, only 23.2 percent of the cases involving the victims of this crime against humanity have a definitive sentence.

In addition, there are more than a thousand people whose remains have not been found, nor has it been possible to establish the complete process of kidnapping, murder and concealment of the bodies, as well as the responsibility of the perpetrators.

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the coup d’état, representatives of the groups of Relatives of the Disappeared and the Politically Executed, and of the memory space Londres 38 delivered a letter to the Supreme Court where they expressed their concern for the lack of progress in the processes. The signatories demand that the judiciary comply with its obligations to investigate, prosecute and punish all those responsible for serious human rights violations.

According to a report by the Truth Commission, the total number of victims during the 17 years of the military regime, amounts to more than 40,000, including those kidnapped, tortured and murdered, without counting the more than 200,000 exiled.

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