UN Urges El Salvador to Support Convention
UN Human Rights Council Work Group president Santiago Corcuera urged Salvadorian government Friday to give their support to the Convention against involuntary and unnatural disappearances.

An official called for activating a search commission to clarify the whereabouts of more than 2,600 cases.

He specified that the three-days visit of this group had the purpose of investigating and gathering information on reports of unnatural disappearances registered since armed conflict in the 70's and 80's.

Corcuera added that "we can not talk about initiating cases that were already closed when investigating them, because as long as we don't know where the victims are, it is then a highly current case."

He affirmed that the ones allegedly responsible for these unnatural disappearances can not be benefited with the 1993 Amnesty Act, due to any legislation can provide them with special forgiveness to exonerate them.

Article 18 of the Convention establishes that the ones responsible should be sentenced to penal sanction," said Corcuera.

For this type of crime, responsible ones should compensate victims for the damage caused, and be disqualified from holding public offices, explained narrator.