Montevideo. Uruguay bids farewell this Thursday to the communist militant Amelia Sanjurjo, detained and disappeared over the past dictatorship (1973-1985), whose stays have been discovered precisely one 12 months in the past in a army barracks though they might solely be recognized final week.
The tribute takes place within the central constructing of the state College of the Republic and ends at 3:00 p.m. (7:00 p.m. GMT) on the La Teja Cemetery, in Montevideo.
“This Thursday, Amelia returns to her house, to her household and to her individuals,” acknowledged the affiliation of Moms and Family of Detained Disappeared Uruguayans when calling to honor her publicly.
Amelia Sanjurjo Casal was 40 years outdated when she was arrested on November 2, 1977 on a public road in Montevideo. She was an worker of a publishing home, she was a member of the Communist Celebration of Uruguay and was not too long ago pregnant.
In response to official info, she died six days after her kidnapping, overwhelmed when she was taken to a torture session in “La Tablada”, headquarters of a physique that coordinated the repression in opposition to leftist militants.
On Might 28, the prosecutor specialised in crimes in opposition to humanity, Ricardo Perciballe, confirmed that the human stays discovered on June 6, 2023 in Military Battalion 14, 25 km from Montevideo, have been these of Sanjurjo.
In July 2023, it had been confirmed that they corresponded to a lady who had died violently, however the dedication of her identification was delayed as a consequence of a scarcity of genetic materials from direct family members, since Sanjurjo had no kids and her mother and father died.
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– 2024-06-15 01:55:40
