Letter on identification of Argentine soldiers buried in Falklands sent to the Red Cross
Malvinas conflict next-of-kin commission sent a letter to the International Red Cross expressing their position regarding the request from President Cristina Fernandez for that organization to help with the identification of soldiers’ remains buried in the Falkland Islands Argentine cemetery.
The letter was addressed on April 13 and refers to the announcement by President Cristina Fernandez last April 2 in Ushuaia during the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the Malvinas war; precisely on the day (in 1982) Argentine troops landed and occupied the Falklands for 74 days, until expelled by a British Task Force.
In the Tierra del Fuego ceremony Cristina Fernandez revealed she had addressed “a letter to the Red Cross authorities asking they take the necessary measures and intercede before the UK so that the remains of unknown Argentine and British soldiers can be definitively identified, thirty years after the Malvinas war”.
She added “every person has the right to be buried with a plaque identifying his name and every mother has the inalienable right to worship his son; this goes back in our civilization to Antigone and Sophocles”, she added.
In their release the Commission of the next of kin of the fallen in Malvinas said their letter was addressed to the president of the Red Cross International Commission, and referred to the request for forensic, genetic samples to be taken from the Argentine soldiers’ remains buried in the cemetery at Darwin in the Falklands and whose identities “only remain known to God”.
Cristina Fernandez original announcement on April 2 was in response to the request from Malvinas war veterans since a significant number of the combatants buried in the Falklands’ Argentine memorial at Darwin remain unidentified.
A copy from the letter sent by the Malvinas next-of-kin Commission was also given to the Argentine president concludes the brief release signed by Delmira de Cao, president and Dalal Abd de Massad.
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When the Brits get the request they should refer itback to the FIG, they are the best placed to assist the Argentine government.
I always thought that ol' KFC looked a suspect and here is the proof!!! the “She” is actually a “He”!!!!!
Well, well, well....You can fool some of the people all of the time, but............
This is just typical of the Argentinians, just making demands ... demands ... demands. The families of the war dead, make demands, and they have absolutely no consideration whatsoever for the people who are involved on the other side of the coin. They're pathologically incapable of understanding that they caused a war, lost a war, and don't understand the consequences of their actions. It's a cognitive problem that seems to be ingrained in their genetic code.
It's hard to trust a group of people who are pathologically incapable of empathy nor sympathy.
Burial at Sea, no bodies no issue.
Their ONLY involvement should be to issue receipts when the bodies have been returned to Argentina.
l do not trust them, not to try something.
Sad little people, aren't they?
Playing politics with the war dead is despicable.
Make sure that the loading of the coffins to the container and all subsequent events takes place in front of the world's press so that additional video and still photographic evidence can be obtained and broadcast internationally.
Can anyone answer this question, “Are Argentinian next of kin banned, from privately repatriatng the remains of their loved ones, if they so wish.?”
If that is the case, what kind of a government keeps relatives from obtaining closure on their grief?“ The kindest answer would be, ”a heartless one.”
If they want the former, then no worries. If they want the latter then you can go do that at your own leisure in your own place.
That's how I'd
It's obvious that they should be sent back to Argentina, and in my opinion, they should have been sent back at the same time the Argentine PoWs were repatriated.
If Argentina refuse to accept them, then they get buried at sea, just off the Argentine coast, and as Conquerer said, with full world wide media coverage, and proper religious ceremony followed. The ICRC can take whatever DNA samples they wish and give it to the Argentine authorities.
I know that this would be hard on the relatives of the Argentine soldiers who died, but they would only have their own government to blame, who shamelessly use the deaths of their sons for political gain.
Problem solved.
Do they know how many British war cemeteries are around the globe including mainland Argentina?
Fools, you are not different that those a holes below.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17244211
Everyone loves an Argentine comedian.
Does the Spanish mother country love the Argentinians?
Nasty people
Senior officials in the Argentine province of Buenos Aires say they believe two recent attacks on Jewish cemeteries were probably the work of former police officiers. The attacks which took place on Christmas Eve and New Years day, involved the desecration of about 50 graves and momuments.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/despatches/44266.stm
A major Jewish cemetery was desecrated over the weekend, the third such attack in Argentina this year, raising fear among Jews and anger that the Government seems to be doing little to stop the anti-Semitic assaults.
www.nytimes.com/1996/10/22/world/jewish-cemetery-is-desecrated-in-argentina-the-third-this-year.html
I imagine its a very bad translation, the gender confusion and incongruous use of the word “worship” strikes me as babelfish or the like
l guess its your inalienable right! lol.
Who else,
The Warmonger of the South Atlantic.
Do you not consider what she is doing to the Falklands as the prelude to war?
Her husband was not great, he was a bigger warmonger than she is.
He was also an idiot when he tore up the oil agreement.
Now Argentina gets nothing.
They may have put the Junta & its followers in jail, but they themselves want to “force” us to their will.
l didn't like him & l don't like her.
Your “queen” is a lying opportunist.
She lies to the UN or anyone who will listen about Argentina's ridiculous “claims” on our lslands.
She is looting Argentina's resources.
Who cares?
Empress Cristina, the (plastic-faced)Warmonger of the South Atlantic.
No, I don't.
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