The Mental Hygiene League and others are currently in possession of more than two thousand files related to missing minors, said the executive director of the Presidential Commission for Peace and Human Rights (Copadeh), Oswaldo Samayoa.

At the commemorative event for the International Day of the Victims of Forced Disappearances, the official added that there are currently active organizations in different countries devoted to locating children adopted in the context of the armed conflict.

The nation’s president, Bernardo Arévalo, recalled that children who survived massacres were directly appropriated or executed, some died of hunger and injuries during forced displacement.

Others were forced to fight and, more than 40 years later, families are still looking for their sons and daughters, the president recounted at the National Palace of Culture (seat of the Government).

Arévalo has reportedly comissioned opadeh to design and implement a search mechanism for all missing people under different circumstances.

In his view, only in this way will there be chances of closing this painful chapter for each of the families who continue to suffer the absence of their children and await their reunion.

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