The skeleton of the victim was found last June 6 in the grounds of the 14th Infantry Battalion of Toledo, where a detention and torture center was located.

The prosecutor for crimes against humanity, Ricardo Perciballe, explained that, in the first instance, an attempt was made to limit the group of missing women and the investigations are focused on the identity of the communist militant Amelia Sanjurjo, detained and disappeared at the end of 1977.

This is the “main search objective”, although others are not ruled out, he said.

Her direct relatives are deceased, and their bodies are buried in different cemeteries.

The intention now is to exhume the mother’s remains in search of genetic information.

Sanjurjo is one of 12 missing women detainees about whom there is little information for identification.

The process following the June discovery ruled out that the remains were those of María Claudia García de Gelman and Elena Quinteros, also disappeared.

In Uruguay there are officially 192 people detained by the dictatorship that prevailed from 1973 to 1985 and today their whereabouts remain unknown.

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