BOGOTA, July 27 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) — The Missing Persons Search Unit (UBPD) in conjunction with the Colombian Prosecutor’s Office on Wednesday delivered the bodies of two people, a father and son who disappeared 34 years ago to their relatives.
“We made the dignified delivery to their relatives, in Circasia, Quindío department, thus closing a cycle of uncertainty by not knowing where they were,” the entity said.
Likewise, it highlighted the search work that the family undertook to find their loved ones.
On this day, the delegate of the Episcopal Conference of Colombia for Church-State relations, Monsignor Héctor Fabio Henao, highlighted the work of the UBPD.
“It is an enormous task that the Unit does. This recognition must be done, because it is also very expensive, when you have to resort, for example, to DNA tests and other special techniques,” he told Colombia Hoy Radio.
The UBPD is an entity of the Colombian State, of a humanitarian and extrajudicial nature that, within the Comprehensive System for Peace, directs, coordinates and contributes to the search for people reported missing due to and in the context of the armed conflict.
Likewise, he described the number of disappearances registered in the country as “very worrying” and the “enormous number of places where they were abandoned” and pointed out that for this reason the search “is an effort that Colombian society has to make.”
According to the Search Unit, the number of those disappeared in Colombia is 103,955 people. — NNN-PRENSA LATINA
