Law Establishing a Mechanism for Paying Tribute to Victims of Forced Disappearance and Providing for Measures to Locate and Identify Them

The Law establishes, among a number of obligations, that the relatives of the victims are paid the necessary resources to cover funeral expenses, travel, lodging and food throughout the process of delivering bodies or remains. Victims' families are allowed to participate in the exhumation proceedings in which their relative is to be found. The competent authorities for identification, exhumation and investigation must provide the bodies or remains to the affected family in conditions of dignity, and the Ministry of Social Protection must ensure that the relatives of the victims who are identified receive psychosocial care. The Law further provides that, where the Attorney General's Office has information that there are bodies or remains of forcibly disappeared persons in a given place, that place is declared as a Sanctuary of Memory, and preserved for search and identification. This includes places whose geographical and topological conditions make it impossible to carry out exhumations. A monument in honour of the victims is erected in the Sanctuaries of Memory, including a commemorative plaque listing their names