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Truth and Reconciliation Commission), its main task being to examine the 634
cases left unsolved by its predecessor, with further powers to hear new cases;
d)
“Programa de Derechos Humanos del Ministerio del Interior (Human
Rights Program of the Department of the Interior),” which is the follow-up to
the Corporación Nacional de Reparación y Reconciliación (National Corporation
for Reparation and Reconciliation), its main task being to provide advisory
assistance and institute legal proceedings to establish the circumstances of
the disappearance and/or death of the victims and locate their remains;
e)
“Servicio Médico Legal (Legal Medical Service),” which seeks to identify
the remains of detained-disappeared persons;
f)
“Oficina Nacional del Retorno (Nacional Return Office),” which was
created by Law No.18.994 and “assisted persons who were sentenced and
whose sentence was commuted to deportation under Supreme Decree [No.]
504; persons who were expelled or forced to leave the country under a
resolution by the administrative authorities; persons who were banned from
entering the country; persons who left the country through asylum
protection; and persons who were accorded the United Nations Status of
Refugees and obtained asylum in other countries for humanitarian reasons.”
This office “provided primary assistance and referral to other public services
and non-governmental organizations” and provided “administrative and
reintegration measures;”
g)
“Programa para Exonerados Políticos (Political Exoneration Program),”
whereby the State granted benefits to individuals who were dismissed from a
Government Agency or from a company owned or managed by the State.”
Moreover, “subsistence, non-contributory pensions, and grace period
allowances were granted as benefits;”
“Restitución o Indemnización por Bienes Confiscados y Adquiridos por
h)
el Estado (Restitution of or Compensation for Property Seized or Acquired by
the State)” through Decree Laws No. 12, 77 and 133 of 1973; No. 1.697 of
1977, and No. 2.346 of 1978;
i)
“Mesa de Diálogo sobre Derechos Humanos (Human Rights
Conversation Table),” whose primary purpose was to “further the
investigation to find out the fate of detained-disappeared persons.”
j)
“Presidential Initiative “No hay mañana sin ayer” (“Yesterday for
Tomorrow”), established to “continue making progress in the delicate process
of healing the wounds caused by severe human rights violations” including
measures aimed at “maximizing the search for truth and justice,” “improving
social reparation to victims” and “empowering the society and its institutions
so as to prevent human rights violations from happening again” and
k)
“Comisión Nacional sobre Prisión Política y Tortura (National
Commission on Political Imprisonment and Torture),” which was created in
November 2003 as part of the abovementioned presidential initiative and was
aimed at “gathering information concerning violations of the right to personal
liberty and to humane treatment and physical safety committed for political
reasons.” Its purpose was to identify “the individuals who were deprived of