This was stated by the coordinator of the Forensic Anthropology Research Group (GIAF) of the University of the Republic, Alicia Lusiardo, during a discussion on the search for the missing at the Faculty of Information and Communication of that university.

The list of missing persons has 197 names, Lusiardo said.

She pointed out that after the identifications and findings of skeletal remains, “the task ahead of us is 161 persons who have not been located”.

“We are always working with data or testimonies that are scarce or indirect,” with a very high level of imprecision, which complicates the main task of the group which is to search for remains, she said.

Lusiardo explained that the GIAF works in “huge areas”, sometimes larger than 400 hectares.

For that reason, and because “the information we have is not of mass graves” but of “individual burials,”so the search “becomes very difficult,” she explained.

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