Tag: Argentine Forensic Anthropologic Team (EAAF)

• Friday, August 20th 2021 - 09:45 UTC

  Red Cross team says body parts unearthed from Falkland Islands Darwin cemetery belong to at least five soldiers

  

  The International Committee of the Red Cross team working on the identification of Argentine soldiers fallen in the 1982 Falkland/Malvinas Islands conflict Thursday announced at least one additional body had been found at grave C.1.10.

• Monday, August 16th 2021 - 07:20 UTC

  Falklands Islands (Malvinas): Forensic identification of fallen Argentine soldiers begins

  

  The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has begun a second phase of forensic work to identify Argentine soldiers buried on the Falklands Islands (Malvinas).

• Wednesday, February 26th 2020 - 09:50 UTC

  Argentina Forensic Anthropology Team nominated for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize

  

  The Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team, EAAF, a non-profit scientific NGO, was nominated for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize for its investigative work into human rights violations in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Europe.

• Thursday, December 20th 2018 - 23:49 UTC

  Team which identified unnamed bodies in Darwin on the brink of collapse as Argentine gov't withholds funds

  

  The Argentine Anthropology Forensics Team (EAAF) Thursday announced it will no be able to carry on with its work since the Argentine government had not wired the funds agreed upon.

• Tuesday, July 18th 2017 - 14:45 UTC

  Falkland/Malvinas Islands: ICRC work to identify Argentine soldiers buried in Darwin cemetery continues as planned

  

  The work of the forensic team from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to identify Argentine soldiers buried in Darwin cemetery is making good progress and proceeding as planned.

• Wednesday, February 24th 2016 - 06:40 UTC

  Project to identify Argentina soldiers' remains in Falklands, advancing says Clarin

  

  Argentina and Great Britain are close to reaching an agreement on procedures for the identification of the Argentine combatants buried at the memorial in the Falkland Islands, reports Clarin, Apparently discussions are quite advanced and an Argentine proposal was replied by a Foreign Office counter proposal.

• Monday, February 15th 2016 - 06:55 UTC

  Four Argentines plan to swim the Falklands' Sound on an “identity cause”

  

  Four Argentine amateur swimmers have been training for over a year preparing for the crossing of the Falklands' Sound which separates the two main islands, West from East Falkland. The purpose of the crossing is to bring attention on the 'delayed' process of identifying the remains of Argentine soldiers buried in the Falklands under a headstone that reads “Argentine soldier, known only to God”.

• Thursday, November 27th 2014 - 05:16 UTC

  Malvinas next-of-kin deny any soon exhumation of Argentine fallen at Darwin cemetery

  

  The Malvinas and South Atlantic Islands fallen next of kin commission, in a public statement said that exhuming and identifying remains of Argentine soldiers buried in the Falkland Islands Darwin cemetery is a most personal issue for each family, strictly humanitarian, not decided and thus rejects any political intentionality in recent statements on the matter.