10 insurgency policy found its most extreme expression in a general practice of "cutting the guerrillas lifeline" [...] Roughly 50 per cent of all the complaints analyzed concern incidents which took place during the first two years, 1980 and 1981; more than 20 per cent took place in the following two years, 1982 and 1983. In other words, over 75 per cent of the serious acts of violence reported to the Commission on the Truth took place during first four years of the decade […] The violence was less indiscriminate in urban areas, and also in rural areas after 1983. [Indeed,] 95 per cent of complaints concerned incidents in rural areas 9 […]” It should be noted that the report of the Truth Commission does not include a special section on child disappearances in El Salvador; however, it included many such cases in its lists of missing persons. 68. The Inter-American Court, in the case of Contreras et al. v. El Salvador, took note of the recognition by the State of El Salvador of the existence of a systematic pattern of disappearance of children during the internal armed conflict, and recapitulated the relevant sources in which reference is made to the characteristics of that practice. As a result, the Inter-American Court established that: The phenomenon of forced disappearance in the armed conflict in El Salvador was addressed by the Truth Commission for El Salvador with the support of the United Nations, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, international agencies, authorities and bodies of the State itself, and other organizations. However, there was also a more specific pattern, acknowledged by the State, relating to the forced disappearance of children (supra para. 17), who were taken and 10 illegally held by the Armed Forces during counterinsurgency operations. Likewise, it has been established that, in many cases, this practice implied the appropriation of children and their 11 registration under a different name or with false personal data. According to the evidence in the case file, at May 2011, the Search Association had received 881 complaints of children disappeared during the armed conflict; of these, 363 had been resolved, including those who were located alive and those found dead. From these cases, they were able to 12 reunite 224 young people with their families. Even though the Search Association is one of the representatives in this case, it is important to highlight that it is the institution that has documented and investigated this phenomenon most extensively and taken measures to search for and reunite 9 Report of the Commission on the Truth for El Salvador, From Madness to Hope (The 12-year War in El Salvador), p. 42. 10 Corte I.D.H., Caso Contreras y otros Vs. El Salvador. Fondo, Reparaciones y Costas. Sentencia de 31 de agosto de 2011 Serie C No. 232, párr. 51. Citando. Cf. Asociación Pro-Búsqueda, La paz en construcción. Un estudio sobre la problemática de la niñez desaparecida por el conflicto armado en El Salvador, January 2003 (evidence file, volume IV, attachment 5 to the pleadings, motions and evidence brief, folio 2619/24); Asociación Pro-Búsqueda, La problemática de niñas and niños desaparecidos como consecuencia del conflicto armado interno en El Salvador, April 1999 (evidence file, volume IV, attachment 10 to the pleadings, motions and evidence brief, folios 3207/32 to 3702/33); Asociación Pro-Búsqueda, El día más esperado. Buscando a los niños desaparecidos de El Salvador. UCA Editores, San Salvador, 2001 (evidence file, volume V, attachment 11 to the pleadings, motions and evidence brief, folios 3223); Asociación Pro-Búsqueda, Report on El Salvador to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, La actuación del Estado de El Salvador en la problemática de la niñez desaparecida a consecuencia del conflicto armado, October 2005 (evidence file, volume V, attachment 12 to the pleadings, motions and evidence brief, folio 3540); Asociación Pro-Búsqueda, La problemática de la niñez desaparecida en El Salvador. Document prepared for the visit of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, February 5, 2007 (evidence file, volume V, attachment 13 to the pleadings, motions and evidence brief, folio 3584), and Laínez Villaherrera, Rosa América and Hasbún Alvarenga, Gianina, Tejiendo nuestra identidad. Intervención psicosocial en la problemática de la niñez desaparecida en El Salvador, Asociación ProBúsqueda, San Salvador, 2004 (evidence file, volume VI, attachment 28 to the pleadings, motions and evidence brief, folio 3958). In addition, the FMLN had exerted pressure on some of its members to leave their children in “safe houses” to act as a screen for clandestine activities. Cf. Asociación Pro-Búsqueda, La paz en construcción… (evidence file, volume IV, attachment 5 to the pleadings, motions and evidence brief, folios 2619/17 and 2619/18); Asociación Pro-Búsqueda, La problemática de niñas and niños desaparecidos… (evidence file, volume IV, attachment 10 to the pleadings, motions and evidence brief, folios 3207/13 to 3207/15), and Asociación Pro-Búsqueda, El día más esperado… (evidence file, volume V, attachment 11 to the pleadings, motions and evidence brief, folios 3223 to 3224 and 3378). 11 Corte I.D.H., Caso Contreras y otros Vs. El Salvador. Fondo, Reparaciones y Costas. Sentencia de 31 de agosto de 2011 Serie C No. 232, párr. 51. Citando. Cf. Expert opinion provided by Ana Georgina Ramos de Villalta before notary public (affidavit) on May 5, 2011 (evidence file, volume XI, affidavits, folios 7535 to 7537), and Expert opinion provided by Douglass Cassel before notary public (affidavit) on May 11, 2011 (evidence file, volume XI, affidavits, folios 7552 to 7575). 12 Corte I.D.H., Caso Contreras y otros Vs. El Salvador. Fondo, Reparaciones y Costas. Sentencia de 31 de agosto de 2011 Serie C No. 232, párr. 51. Citando. Cf. Expert opinion provided by Ana Georgina Ramos de Villalta, supra note 35, (evidence file, volume XI, affidavits, folio 7530).