The scourge of disappeared It continues to be an issue that concentrates the attention of the authorities.
A report presented by the Institute of legal Medicine reveals that on average 17 people are reported missing each day in Colombia.
From January to April of this year alone, more than 1,900 people were reported missing in the country.. The most worrying thing is that, according to the most recent report of Legal Medicine, most are minors between 10 and 17 years old.
“The armed conflict and forced disappearance will always be on the radar. The second is for different forms of instrumentalization and the third is for commercial sexual exploitation. Also the voluntary disappearance, “said Andrés Nieto, a security analyst at the Central University.
The institute has advanced the identification through a genetic bank that already has more than 69,000 profiles. This same bank, last year, managed to identify 84 people reported as missing.
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“The effectiveness, indeed, that it is achieved in a forensic way, to determine that it is the person we are looking for,” added Robinson Chaverra, delegate of the Ombudsman.
Last year, on average, 17 missing persons were registered per day in the country.
Missing young man in Bogotá
On April 24, the disappearance of Juan Andrés López Rojas, a 20-year-old man who is a civil engineering student at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, was reported.
Juan Andrés disappeared since April 21 when he left the university after finishing his academic day.
His friends, family and acquaintances have disclosed his photos through social networks with information to find out about his whereabouts.