2023-06-08 19:49:27
in the last hours Roberto Carlos Vidal López, President of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP)confirmed that they found the mass grave in the area of the border with Venezuela, that the ex-boss revealed paramilitary Salvatore Mancusowho pointed out that there would be 200 bodies buried in the place.
As Mancuso said before the JEP, in that place, located near the town of Juan Fríoin Villa del Rosario, North of Santanderthere would be bodies of victims of the extinct United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), assassinated in the framework of the Colombian armed conflict.
The finding caused a stir and from the Missing Persons Search Unit it was indicated that taking into account Mancuso’s statements, it will collect the information to build the context as part of an ihumanitarian and extrajudicial investigation.
Despite that announcement and the large number of bodies of which the former chief assured to limit that would be in the common grave, this It’s not entirely clear since no entity has dared to confirm that 200 bodies have been found in the place.
And it is that not even since Unit for the Search for Disappeared Persons and the Special Jurisdiction for Peace no one takes for granted that it is about that amount of bodies to which the former paramilitary chief referred before the court of peace.
However, this newspaper was able to establish that bodies were found at the scenebut the preliminary figure that is being handled is at least 15 bodies of people who would be victims of the self-defense groups, as stated by Mancuso.
Even Nelson Tellez Rodriguezdeputy director of the Missing Persons Search Unit, spoke about the case and stated in Noticias Caracol that the finding “can correspond to a single personmay correspond to more people, we don’t knowyes,” he stated.
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