CHILPANCINGO. The Ministerial Pantheon of Guerrerowhere they dehumanize the unidentified bodiesat the moment houses 929 human remains and is about to reach its maximum capacity, which is 1,120 drawers, according to information from the State Attorney General’s Office (FGE).
This pantheon was the first of its kind to be built in Mexico, which is located within the La Paz Cemetery Parkin Chilpancingo, and according to the FGE the first deposit of unidentified bodies It was carried out in December 2016, while the most recent one was recorded on August 1 of this year.
A total of 968 bodies have been received at these facilities, of which 39 were exhumed to deliver them to their relatives, after their identification was confirmed.
He Ministerial Pantheon of Guerrero It was built with the advice of the Red Cross international and the United Nations Organization (UN), in addition, systems similar to those used for the conservation of the mummies of Guanajuato were installed in its structures, a model that has been replicated in other cemeteries such as the one in Tijuana, Baja California.
The construction of the pantheon The forensic doctor had the objective of giving dignified treatment to hundreds of bodies recovered from clandestine graves and that have not been identified, so one of the characteristics of the drawers is that they are built on the ground, not buried, which allows the remains of a lifeless person to be easily extracted after being identified by various pieces of evidence, and the compartment can be reused.
A worker of the pantheon ministerial explained that before the human remains Before unidentified remains are transferred, they must go through a process of scientific opinions that could at some point help in their identification: they photograph every detail of the remains, take dental samples, check if they have healed bone fractures; look for distinctive signs such as tattoos or scars and finally DNA samples are extracted.
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The almost thousand human remains that are found within the Ministerial Pantheon of Guerrero They are just a part of the corpses that remain under the protection of the authorities, because inside the cold chambers of the Forensic Medical Services (Semefos) has another significant number of deceased who have not been transferred to the cemetery because tests are still pending.
Although sources from the Ministry of Health and the Public Prosecutor’s Office state on the number of bodies kept in the facilities of the SemefoThere was no positive response because the person in charge of communications for the agency indicated that this information corresponds to the FGE and vice versa.
According to sources inside the SemephosThere are more than 700 bodies stored in the refrigerators.
Another facility that houses unidentified human remains in Guerrero is the Osteoteca, a facility built with the support of the International Red Cross next to the Chilpancingo Semefowhere human bones are treated and preserved, in addition to having records of DNA profiles to compare them with the people who are looking for their missing relatives.
This site currently houses more than 300 human remainsso the unidentified bodies that the Guerrero authorities are safeguarding would be almost two thousand.
According to search groups, missingIn Guerrero there are around four thousand reports of missing persons and it is presumed that many of these could be the remains that are kept in the facilities of the SemefoHowever, they have not been able to make scientific comparisons to corroborate the identity.
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On Friday, search groups marched in Chilpancingo to commemorate the International Day of Missing Persons.
They demanded a larger budget and autonomy for the State Commission for the Search for Persons and the Executive Commission for Attention to Victims. They also demanded the creation of the State Institute for Human Identification, since they claim that there are hundreds of bodies that have not yet been identified.