Remains of Operation Condor''s Uruguayan Victim Delivered

The remains of Uruguayan fighter Alberto Mechoso, a victim of military dictatorships' Operation Condor, were delivered to his family today in the presence of President Jose Mujica.

The urn with the remains of Mechoso, arrested in 1976 in Buenos Aires by Argentine and Uruguayan repressive forces, was handed over to his family, who held a vigil and buried him in the capital cemetery of El Cerro.

Coordinator of the Presidency's Human Rights Department, Graciela Jorge, described the moving and contradictory moment, which mixed sorrow and joy. Mechoso, she said, returned home and had a proper burial.

Mechoso, who was a member of the Uruguayan Anarchist Federation and the People's Revolutionary Organization 33 Orientales, was last seen as a prisoner in the clandestine detention center known as Automotores Orletti.

Mechoso's identification was made by the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team from genetic samples sent in May to Buenos Aires by the Human Rights Department of the Uruguayan Preside

Saturday 29 December 2012

http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=848941&Itemid=1