32 20, 1978, entitled “Disappeared Persons,” in which the General Assembly expressed its concern about “reports from various parts of the world relating to enforced or involuntary disappearances of persons as a result of excesses on the part of law enforcement or security authorities or similar organizations,” and also its concern about “reports of difficulties in obtaining reliable information from competent authorities as to the circumstances of such persons,” and indicated that there is “a danger to the life, liberty and physical security of such persons, arising from the persistent failure of these authorities or organizations to acknowledge that such persons are held in their custody or otherwise account for them.” 104. Added to the above, the Court notes that the phenomenon of forced disappearances during the armed conflict which affected El Salvador from 1980 to 1991 and its consequences were analyzed and discussed by the Truth Commission for El Salvador sponsored by the United Nations, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, international organizations, authorities and bodies of the State itself, and other organizations.19 105. Based on the above, this Court considers that there is no doubt that the forced disappearance of persons is a continuing crime, which constitutes a complex form of human rights violation, and that, even in the 1970s, it was being considered as such in international human rights law. Forced disappearance signifies a flagrant rejection of the values inherent in human dignity and the most basic principles on 19 Cf. 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