A survey to determine the number of unidentified corpses found by authorities in Colombia has returned a count of 10,084 so far, with more than half of the country’s municipalities yet to report their figures, .
the 446 reported by United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR). The UNHCHR conducted an investigation in September following reports from human rights organizations that a mass grave in the town held 2,000 unidentified bodies. The Colombian government denied
According to an annual report issued by Colombia’s forensics agency, Medicina Legal, over 18,200 Colombians went missing in 2009. In October 2010, a government official announced there are over 50,000 missing people in Colombia.
The prosecutor general has registered some 27,000 people as missing, but admits there are still many cases that need to be investigated.