Exhumation of US Invasion victims underway
The exhumation of the bodies of victims of the US invasion of Panama overseen by the December 20, 1989 Commission, began on Monday January 20.
The Commission was created to clarify the truth about the invasion of the United States. The unknown bodies that are in nlock 20 of the Garden of Peace.
In July 2019, the Public Ministry authorized the reopening of the summaries in the investigation of 15 cases of victims were not identified or disappeared during the invasion.
International organizations, such as the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team, have collaborated with the preparation of the team of experts who are carrying out the intervention which is expected to take 60 days
So far the commission reports a preliminary list of 331 dead during the invasion have been fully identified. Some estimates put the death toll at over 4,000