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A 60-year mystery ends as Colombian officials identify the remains of guerrilla priest Camilo Torres
- On Monday, officials in Bogota announced the Unit for the Search of Missing People located and completed a dignified handover of Father Camilo Torres after a 60-year disappearance.
- The search intensified after Javier Giraldo's 2019 petition, and since its creation following the 2016 peace deal, the Unit for the Search of Missing People has helped identify hundreds of remains.
- Using forensic and genetic testing, the team overcame deliberate obfuscation as investigators used military justice files and public records to identify bones found two years ago in a Bucaramanga cemetery, UBPD said.
- Luz Janeth Forero said the identification is a milestone and a dignified handover; Torres' remains will be housed at a chapel in Bogota's National University, showing relatives of the missing should not lose hope.
- Torres, born in 1929, was a priest and founding sociology professor who later joined the National Liberation Army in late 1965 and was killed months later at 37, leaving a contested legacy among conservatives and progressives.
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A 60-year mystery ends as Colombian officials identify the remains of guerrilla priest Camilo Torres
Officials in Bogota say the remains of a well-known Colombian priest who joined a guerrilla group and was killed in combat six decades ago have been identified.
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The Star Kuala LumpurColombia identifies remains of rebel group priest killed in 1966
BOGOTA, Feb 16 - The Colombian state entity tasked with finding and identifying more than 135,000 people who have disappeared during the course of the country's six decades of civil conflict said on Monday it has identified the remains of Camilo Torres, a Catholic priest famous for his membership in the National Liberation Army (ELN) rebel group and who was killed in combat in the 1960s. Read more at straitstimes.com.
The identification of Camilo Torres' remains was confirmed by three forensic laboratories, one of them in the United States, following a series of analyses that included additional evidence of identity, in addition to DNA.
The Unit for the Search of Persons Given by Disappeared (UBPD) has handed over the remains of the priest Camilo Torres Restrepo this Sunday, in an intimate and reserved act. The humanitarian entity, in charge of carrying out the search for the remains of the guerrilla priest, has handed over the remains of the religious on the same day that 60 years of his death in combat as a member of the ELN. Jesuit priest Javier Giraldo, who in 2019 made the…
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