the first report prepared by the Genetics Laboratory of the Prosecutor General’s Office and the DNA Laboratory of the National Institute of Forensic Medicine and Science, 28 sets of osseous remains were tested to determine whether they belonged to the persons who had disappeared from the Palace of Justice, based on samples taken from family members. On this occasion, it was excluded that these corpses belonged to nine of the disappeared victims and one of the bodies was identified as that of Ana Rosa Castiblanco Torres, and therefore returned to her son on November 2, 2001. 261 In 2001 and 2002, a second and third report were prepared, during which the other remains were analyzed and it was also excluded that they corresponded to the persons disappeared. 262 194. Subsequently, at the request of the Prosecutor, the Physical Anthropology Laboratory of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia stored the remains following the conclusion of the analyses performed by the Technical Investigations Unit of the Prosecutor General’s Office (CTI). This laboratory of the Universidad Nacional processed the information and analyzed the remains using “forensic science and criminalistics methods and techniques,” including facial reconstruction to facilitate the circumstantial identification of the remains. 263 The report proposed the identification of thirteen persons (eleven members of the guerrilla, one civilian, and one possibly a justice) (infra para. 314). This identification was “for guidance, with a high level of probability, which could be confirmed by the respective genetic study.” However, based on these identifications, the remains of four individuals were returned with court authorization. 264 According to the Truth Commission, these analyses focused on 260 Cf. Written report of Máximo Duque Piedrahíta (evidence file, folio 36427); Written notes by Carlos Bacigalupo Salinas (evidence file, folio 36331); report on the forensic anthropology investigation of the case of the Palace of Justice, Physical Anthropology Laboratory of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia (evidence file, folio 21687); Report of the Truth Commission (evidence file, folios 247 and 248), and Testimony of Yolanda González, expert witness of the Genetics Laboratory of the Attorney General’s office, of March 15, 2012, before the 55th Criminal Circuit Court of the Bogota (evidence file, folios 14822 to 14824). 261 Twenty-eight samples were selected to perform genetic testing owing to the signs of incineration, the level and which they were found, and because they were contained in plastic bags. This report analyzed whether the remains belonged to: Fabio Becerra Correa, Lucy Amparo Oviedo Bonilla, René Francisco Acuña Jiménez, Héctor Jaime Beltrán Fuentes, Carlos Augusto Rodríguez Vera, Ana Rosa Castiblanco Torres, Bernardo Beltrán Hernández, Gloria Stella Lizarazo Figueroa, Luz Mary Portela León, Cristina del Pilar Guarín Cortés, Gloria Anzola de Lanao and David Suspes Celis. The next of kin of Norma Constanza Esguerra Forero and Irma Franco Pineda were not included for the preparation of this report. Cf. Report of DNA molecular typing of the Genetics Laboratory of the Prosecutor General’s Office and the DNA Laboratory of the National Institute of Forensic Medicine and Science of July 17, 2001 (evidence file, folios 37850 to 37862); Testimony of Carlos Valdés Moreno, Director General of the National Institute of Forensic Medicine and Science, of March 15, 2012, before the 55th Criminal Circuit Court of Bogota (evidence file, folio 14851 to 14853), and report on the forensic anthropology investigation of the case of the Palace of Justice, Physical Anthropology Laboratory of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia (evidence file, folio 21688). 262 The second report analyzed whether the remains belonged to: Fabio Becerra Correa, Lucy Amparo Oviedo Bonilla, René Francisco Acuña Jiménez, Héctor Jaime Beltrán Fuentes, Carlos Augusto Rodríguez Vera, Ana Rosa Castiblanco Torres, Bernardo Beltrán Hernández, Gloria Stella Lizarazo Figueroa, Luz Mary Portela León, Cristina del Pilar Guarín Cortés, Gloria Anzola de Lanao and David Suspes Celis. This report also did not include Norma Constanza Esguerra Forero and Irma Franco Pineda. Cf. Report of DNA molecular typing prepared by Martha Roa Bohórquez, Judicial Investigator I and James Troy Valencia Vargas, Head of the Genetics Laboratory of the Prosecutor General’s Office, dated August 9, 2001 (evidence file, folios 37831 to 37834). The third report focused only on performing a “genetic and comparative analysis” with three persons, including Héctor Jaime Beltrán Fuentes. Cf. Extract from the report of DNA molecular typing and comparison prepared by Yolanda González López dated May 6, 2002, included in the judgment of the Superior Court of Bogota of January 30, 2012 (evidence file, folio 23042). 263 According to the communication of the Coordinator of the Physical Anthropology Laboratory of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia of April 1, 2009, this report was requested by the 51st Criminal Court of the Bogota Circuit on March 26, 2009 (evidence file, folios 21682 and 21689). According to the deponent, Carlos Bacigalupo Salinas, these tests were carried out at the request of “Senator Antonio Navarro Wolf and the Ministry of Justice, by authorization of the court, and owing to the Agreement to bring the conflict to an end for humanitarian reasons (Acuerdo de Punto Final) (the agreement between the Government of the time and the M-19) [… in order to] confirm the identity of the members of the M-19 who had been buried in the mass grave in the South Cemetery in November 1985, and whose remains were at the Universidad Nacional.” Written notes by Carlos Bacigalupo Salinas (evidence file, folio 36332). 264 Cf. Report on the forensic anthropology investigation of the case of the Palace of Justice, Physical Anthropology 65

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