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Yesterday was International Day of the Disappeared. Between 50,000 and 90,000 Colombians have gone missing during the conflict and their families almost never get answers, convictions or remains.
It's a hard story to get people interested in because there's hardly ever anything new to say - it's just relentless agony for families who want perpetrators prosecuted, or at the very least, some remains to bury.
Searching for the disappeared is complicated for a variety of reasons ranging from the political to the geological, but it remains perhaps the most sacred duty of the Colombian state.
Advances in DNA, a special unit created by the FARC peace deal and dedicated forensic staff (who work long days for relatively meager public sector pay) offer some hope. But, as @ACOSTALUISJAIME wrote last week, there's always new challenges: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-disappeared/pandemic-hampers-search-for-missing-persons-in-latin-america-international-red-cross-idUSKBN25O28D
And families like the Dazas, who I wrote about in 2018, are still waiting. All they want is the chance to say goodbye the right way: https://reuters.com/article/us-colombia-missing/glimmers-of-hope-for-families-of-colombias-missing-idUSKBN1FT1GL #AquíFaltaAlguien #untiltheyarefound
