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The Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) presented new results of its investigation work in the municipality of Dabeiba, Antioquia, on people buried illegally in the Las Mercedes cemetery, diligence with which it seeks to contrast the contributions on the ground to the truth that the members of the public force have been doing.
Between November 8 and 14, on the third day of exhumation carried out by the Jurisdiction in the cemetery, the Investigation and Accusation Unit (UIA) of the JEP reported 17 forensic findings after the location of six mass graves .
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In December 2019, another 17 findings had been recorded; In February 2020, 37, and with the 17 new ones, in total the JEP reports 71 forensic findings on people who, according to judicial information collected by the jurisdiction, they correspond to victims of extrajudicial executions and forced disappearances.
For seven days, the forensic team, guided by magistrate Alejandro Ramelli (from the Section for the Absence of Recognition), unearthed the horror of the war in this region of western Antioquia: bodies buried in black bags, naked, with gun wounds of fire on the head, totally fragmented, some buried with military garments and others tied on the hands, feet and neck, in a state of total defenselessness.
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In addition, after this new day in Dabeiba, preliminary indications were found that indicate the performing autopsies before burials. This condition is not common in people buried illegally.Nor is it usual to arrange the bodies in the places where they were found, which were not in coffins, found without clothes, face down, or inside black bags.
Additionally, 150 people, mostly indigenous Embera, participated in the second day of taking DNA samples
As reported by the JEP, these findings make it possible to compare on the ground the contributions to the full truth made by the appearing parties in the framework of macro-case 03, known as that of “false positives”, and 04, which prioritized the Urabá region.
Regarding the events that occurred in Dabeiba, to date 14 members of the security forces, of different ranks, including battalion and brigade commanders, have given their versions to the JEP for the events related to the Las Mercedes Cemetery. The majority of them They had never been investigated by the ordinary justice system and those who were, confessed to the commission of crimes never prosecuted before.
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Additionally, 150 people, mostly indigenous Embera, participated in the second day of taking DNA samples that the JEP and Legal Medicine convened in Dabeiba between November 8 and 14.
Although the car with which the second day was ordered summoned 121 people, the number of relatives of victims of forced disappearance exceeded that expected. Most of them are members of the Embera indigenous community who are looking for their disappeared relatives.
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He was at his home and was detained by members of the Army and later presented as killed in combat
Identification and delivery
On February 17, 2020, the JEP handed over the body of Edison Lexánder Lezcano Hurtado, 23, who was the father of three children and worked as a farmer in the rural area of the municipality when he was assassinated by members of the Army in 2002.
Thanks to the statements of members of the public force, the investigation and exhumation carried out by the JEP in the Las Mercedes cemetery and the work of Forensic Medicine, the full identification of Edison Lezcano was achieved, whose final destination was always hidden from him. their families.
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In relation to these events, the Council of State, by means of an order dated August 16, 2012, approved an advanced conciliation between the victim’s next of kin and the Ministry of National Defense.
In that providence it is stated that “The death of Mr. Lezcano Hurtado is a typical case of the so-called“ false positives ”, to the extent that he was in his home and was detained – along with others – by members of the Army and, later, presented as “killed in combat” [es importante anotar que en el proceso no se acredita que hiciera parte de las Farc, ni que hubiere accionado arma alguna en contra de los militares]”.
The next of kin of the victims were never handed over the corpse nor were they indicated the place where it had been buried, which is why it maintained its status as disappeared.
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Likewise, on November 10, the bodies of Yulieth Andrea Tuberquia, Nelson Antonio Góez Manco, Alveiro Úsuga Uribe and Eliécer de Jesús Manco Úsuga were handed over to their families.
Úsuga Uribe and Manco Úsuga were exhumed by the JEP in the Las Mercedes y Tuberquia y Góez Manco cemetery fThey were identified thanks to the DNA sampling carried out by the JEP and the National Institute of Legal Medicine in February 2020.
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