MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
ICRC team underlines good understanding with Falkland Islanders
Head of the Humanitarian Project Plan (HPP) team to identify Argentine soldiers buried at Darwin Cemetery confident to complete on-site operations in August, full task by end of year, speaks of “good understanding” with Islanders. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rules“One of the things Corbaz was quick to make clear was that although there are 123 unidentified graves of the total 237, it is known from British Colonel Geoffrey Cardozo's report that there is at least one grave if not more where there are more than one body, so the total number of bodies is still not available.”
Jun 02nd, 2017 - 07:40 am - Link - Report abuse +3More than 123 bodies? What does that do to Argentina's official numbers of deceased? Didn't they count them in .... and then count them back?
Wasn't this article called...
Jun 02nd, 2017 - 08:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0icrc-team-head-realistic-100-identifications-not-likely
..before it disappeared yesterday along with the comments...
Weird...
@Voice
Jun 02nd, 2017 - 09:57 am - Link - Report abuse +1Yes: http://en.mercopress.com/2017/06/01/icrc-team-head-realistic-100-identifications-not-likely
It just gives 'page not found' now. And another article disappeared recently, I forget what it was called but it was taken from a UK newspaper, and that one was never reposted. Also at least one comment has disappeared, but we can tell it was there because someone replied before it vanished. I agree it's odd.
@Roger Lorton
I was wondering where the other people killed were buried. Leaving out the ones on the Belgrano who wouldn't be buried in the islands, I make it 326 Argentines dead, and only 237 graves. Were some killed elsewhere or died in hospital?
And I don't understand why they would put more than one body in a grave. If you're already digging 237 graves it's not much more effort to dig 238 or 240, surely?
Demon Tree - Part of the horror of aftermath of war - you find bits of say 3 arms and other body parts - you have no option unless they happen to have clear markings - but to bury them together.
Jun 02nd, 2017 - 11:29 am - Link - Report abuse +1Number difference - Quite a few pilots and air crews crashed into the sea, and nobody is sure what the Arg army did with the bodies of those killed in early air-raids on Stanley.
Okay that makes sense. Maybe for those killed early in the war they were able to ship the bodies back to their base in Argentina?
Jun 02nd, 2017 - 12:30 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Great that the “ICRC team underlines good understanding with Falkland Islanders”; will the Argentine contingent do likewise, I wonder?
Jun 02nd, 2017 - 01:10 pm - Link - Report abuse +4@ Demon Tree. In some instances mixed parts of 2 bodies were placed in a coffin due to not being able to distinguish which bone belonged to what body, other than confirming there were separately indentifiable remains of 2 bodies (in incomplete format) in the found location (or prior buried by Argentines). None of this was easily dealt with in '82 or the final internment at Darwin. Hopefully sufficient DNA has been collected to allow majority identification, but for sure some blips will remain unanswered or ID unresolved and a great sadness for NOK who still yearn.
That's going to make it a lot harder for the Red Cross. And if they do identify two bodies in one grave are they going to leave them both there? Seems awkward for the families. Anyway I hope they are able to identify as many as possible so their relatives aren't left wondering.
Jun 02nd, 2017 - 05:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Well I hate to admit it Gavin but I think your comments from this week are going to be proven correct.
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