The identities of two of the 12 dictatorship victims identified during excavations at the former clandestine detention center known as La Perla in Córdoba were revealed, following the discovery and analysis of the remains carried out by the Argentine Team of Forensic Anthropology (EAAF, by its Spanish initials).

The names of the two victims, who had remained disappeared for nearly five decades, are Mario Alberto Nívoli Gauchat and Ramiro Sergio Bustillo Rubio. Their identities were made public by their families.

Nívoli Gauchat and Bustillo Rubio are part of a group of 12 people whose remains were identified by the world-renowned NGO EAAF following a widespread excavation at La Perla,  which began in September per request of a Córdoba federal court.

La Perla was a military compound where one of the largest clandestine centers of detention, torture and extermination in the country operated in the late 1970s. Over 2,000 people were forcibly held there.

On Tuesday, the court and the EAAF announced the identification of the victims, but did not reveal their names. The forensic anthropologists said that information about their identities would be released by the court with the consent of their families........

© Buenos Aires Herald