Tag: Malvinas War veterans

• Tuesday, November 12th 2019 - 12:42 UTC

  Argentina issues unified war veteran certificate for 1982 combatants

  

  Argentina Defence Minister Oscar Aguad Monday enacted the Certificate of Malvinas War Veterans for those who were actively involved in the 1982 Falkland/Malvinas conflict, it was announced.

• Monday, September 30th 2019 - 07:08 UTC

  Malvinas carved plaque inaugurated at Casa Rosada

  

  The Argentine government honoured Malvinas war Veterans with a ceremony at Government House, Casa Rosada, where a plaque with the Falkland Islands contour was unveiled together with an inscription underlining the valor of the combatants in their determination to recover the South Atlantic Islands.

• Monday, September 30th 2019 - 06:52 UTC

  Malvinas Veterans Office created by the Macri administration

  

  Argentina has created a Coordination Office for Malvinas War Veterans, the first such office since the end of the 1982 conflict, when Argentine forces invaded the Falkland Islands and were defeated 74 days later.

• Monday, May 29th 2017 - 09:42 UTC

  Malvinas Veterans acclaimed as they parade in Buenos Aires

  

  Hundreds of Malvinas veterans were applauded and acclaimed as they marched through Buenos Aires on Friday May 27th as part of the May Revolution 207 anniversary commemorations. Veterans closed the traditional military parade along two kilometers, which this year assembled 6.000 troops from all branches plus an air pass of aircraft and helicopters.

• Thursday, November 17th 2016 - 12:12 UTC

  Argentine Congress approves special pensions scheme for Malvinas veterans

  

  The Argentine Senate unanimously (58/58) passed a bill with a special pensions' scheme, described as exceptional and optional for those citizens who were involved in the Malvinas war. The vote was cheered by the veterans present at the session's discussion.

• Sunday, April 3rd 2016 - 06:50 UTC

  Malvinas remain “inexorably Argentine” says Macri on invasion anniversary

  The Malvinas Islands remain “inexorably Argentine” said president Mauricio Macri in a message in the social networks aired following the tribute to the Malvinas war veterans at the cenotaph in central Buenos Aires and later meeting with officers and veterans at the Olivos residence.

• Saturday, February 27th 2016 - 03:37 UTC

  Malvinas' conscripts demanding war veteran certificates, complete eight years of encampment in Plaza de Mayo

  

  Eight Argentine former conscript soldiers have completed eight years running in a tent camp in Plaza Mayo, the heart of Buenos Aires City, demanding they be recognized as Malvinas war veterans since they argue, they were involved in defense and logistics duties along the Patagonia coast during the 1982 conflict with the United Kingdom.

• Wednesday, July 8th 2015 - 07:02 UTC

  Malvinas conflict former soldiers' claim to pension denied by Supreme Court for lack of combat evidence

  

  Argentina's Supreme Court in what is considered a lead case on Tuesday ruled contrary to Malvinas war pensions for the former soldiers who served with the Eighth Mechanized Infantry regiment, based in Comodoro Rivadavia during the 1982 conflict, because they were never involved in combat or participated in the Military Operations Theatre.

• Thursday, May 14th 2015 - 08:45 UTC

  Malvinas war veterans appeal abuses case to Inter American Human Rights Commission

  

  Malvinas war veterans have taken their Human rights abuse case against Argentine officers to the Inter American Human Rights Commission, IHRC, following on Argentina's Supreme Court decision rejecting the case because of time limit.

• Thursday, March 5th 2015 - 06:41 UTC

  Malvinas war veterans will take their torture case to an international court

  

  Malvinas war veterans who had claimed to be victims of abuse and torture by their superior officers during the Falklands conflict of 1982 will take the matter up with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), the CECIM centre of former soldiers from La Plata announced.