Remains of 10 US invasion victims located

The skeletal remains  of at least 10  victims of the 1989 US invasion of Panama have  been located  by the  Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences (Imelcf) , during the exhumation work carried out in the Peace Garden since the January 20

Fve remains have been exhumed and transferred to the judicial morgue, while five others are still in the pits and “where work will continue to locate other coffins,” said the Public Ministry.

The Prosecutor of Discharge Homicide / Femicide of the Metropolitan Area, Leticia Del Cid, explained that five skeletal remains were found the afternoon of this Thursday, February 6, during the excavations. He indicated that now they will be “worked and expanded so that expert experts, anthropologists, and archaeologists do the work on their framework, once the sediments have been cleaned.”

These exhumation works are carried out by a team of 20 experts from the Imelcf, with the support of forensic anthropologists from the country and abroad.

In July 2019, the Public Ministry at the request of the December 20, 1989 Commission. authorized the reopening of the summaries in the investigation of 15 cases of victims not identified or disappeared during the invasion. This,

This commission was created in 2016 to clarify the truth about the US invasion of Panama and violations of international and humanitarian law.

On its website, the Commission reports a preliminary list of 331 dead during the event.