Pro-Busqueda
Pro-Busqueda is an association in the human rights movement that carries out the search for children who disappeared as a result of the armed conflict in El Salvador, that promotes their rights, the awareness of the truth, access to justice, to complete reparations for disappeared people and their families.
Website: www.probusqueda.org.sv
Website: www.probusqueda.org.sv
Forced Disappearance
A forced disappearance (generally) occurs when a person is secretly imprisoned or killed by agents of the state or by another party, such as a terrorist or criminal group. The party responsible for a disappearance does not admit to having carried out the act, thereby placing the victim outside the protection of the law. Often forced disappearance implies murder. The victim in such a case is first abducted, then illegally detained, and often tortured; the victim is then killed, and the body is then hidden. Typically, a murder will be surreptitious, with the corpse disposed of in such a way as to prevent it ever being found, so that the person apparently vanishes. The party committing the murder has deniability, as there is no body to prove that the victim has actually died.--Wikipedia
IN EL SALVADOR...
the number exceeds 9 thousand. These 9,000 "disappeared" must be thought of as children, whose families suffer an endless loss of their loved ones and demand the awareness of truth, the application of a correct and appropriate justice and reparation. Forced disappearance is one of the most shameful pages of Salvadoran national history and sign of impunity.
To date, no one has ever been judged by a case of forced disappearance. The closing report of Truth Commission titled “From Madness to Hope”, published on March 1993, did not mention these denounced cases in specific, only included the names of children in a general listing of conflict victims.
In 1994, 5 children were found by ProBusqueda. More than 50 children disappeared in the same operation--"Guinda de Mayo" (the running may)--in northern Chalatenango. The found children had been transferred by the Salvadoran Red Cross and grown like orphans.
To this day, there are 881 reported cases, 363 of which have been solved.
IN EL SALVADOR...
the number exceeds 9 thousand. These 9,000 "disappeared" must be thought of as children, whose families suffer an endless loss of their loved ones and demand the awareness of truth, the application of a correct and appropriate justice and reparation. Forced disappearance is one of the most shameful pages of Salvadoran national history and sign of impunity.
To date, no one has ever been judged by a case of forced disappearance. The closing report of Truth Commission titled “From Madness to Hope”, published on March 1993, did not mention these denounced cases in specific, only included the names of children in a general listing of conflict victims.
In 1994, 5 children were found by ProBusqueda. More than 50 children disappeared in the same operation--"Guinda de Mayo" (the running may)--in northern Chalatenango. The found children had been transferred by the Salvadoran Red Cross and grown like orphans.
To this day, there are 881 reported cases, 363 of which have been solved.
