The Dead of Ayacucho. Violence and Clandestine Burial Sites

How many remains lie buried in the clandestine sites that emerged with the violence? A question that is impossible to answer for now, since since the delivery of the CVR's final report in August 2003, very little progress has been made in the work of exhumations. Between 2002 and 2011, 200 forensic interventions were carried out in Ayacucho, with 1,196 bodies exhumed, of which only half were identified. As this report notes, despite the efforts the pace is slow and it would take 80 years to complete what is currently known, with the certainty that more clandestine sites will be identified in the future. The report now presented by COMISEDH identifies the main limitations in the exhumation work. First, despite the CVR's recommendation to develop a National Plan for Anthropological-Forensic Investigations (PNIAF) and the creation of a National Registry of Burial Sites, neither proposal is currently being implemented.