After waiting since December 20, 1989 to find missing people after the US army’s massacre, relatives and friends went to the Ombudsman’s Office to ask for help in the investigations the December 20 Commission, created in 2016, is conducting.
The commission demanded help from Panama’s President Laurentino Cortizo in a sign raised outside the institution and told journalists some anecdotes on how those whose identification is being investigated disappeared, so that they have an eternal rest, they said.
In September, under the direction of the Public Ministry, experts in anthropology and forensic sciences tracked down a common grave at Monte Esperanza cemetery in northern Colon, but the money runs out without the Ministry of Foreign Affairs delivering the death certificates to be able to continue, spokesmen for the protesters said.
The history of the bloody invasion is an enigma, because the attacking army refused to offer documentation to clarify what happened and the fate of an undetermined number of civilians and soldiers who died and missed during the action. Only some witnesses related isolated anecdotes.
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