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Montevideo, November 21st 2024 - 20:03 UTC

Tag: Argentine Military Cemetery

  • Friday, January 25th 2019 - 09:00 UTC

    Argentina announces identification of the 107 unknown combatant, buried in the Falklands

    Ruben Gomez brother and family with Secretary Claudio Avruj

    An Argentine 18 year old conscript from the northern province of Chaco has become the 107 combatant, with remains resting at the Argentine military cemetery at Darwin, in the Falklands, to be fully identified. The announcement was made by Argentina's Human Rights Secretary, Claudio Avruj who visited the family of Ruben Horacio Gomez, in the city of Ressistencia.

  • Tuesday, January 22nd 2019 - 08:28 UTC

    Second humanitarian visit to Falklands confirmed by Buenos Aires and UK ambassador

    The Argentine government is scheduled to begin talks with Malvinas families to organize a trip similar to the historic visit in March 2017

    The Argentine government has confirmed that in coming days it will be meeting with Malvinas families and UK authorities to organize another humanitarian trip to the Falkland Islands so that the next of kin of the 18 recently identified Argentine soldiers can visit, honor and pray at their graves in the Argentine military cemetery near Darwin.

  • Saturday, December 29th 2018 - 07:49 UTC

    Identification Plan of Argentine remains in the Falklands to be extended

    The Argentine military cemetery at Darwin where the successful identification of 106 remains has been concluded, and now have a full name

    Argentina and the United Kingdom are to discuss the extension of the current Humanitarian Project Plan to identify Argentine combatant remains buried in the Falkland Islands, to include possible errors in the names of some graves, and other burial sites such as Pebbles island, according to a report from Martin Dinatale published in the news agency Infobae.

  • Thursday, December 20th 2018 - 06:50 UTC

    Malvinas veteran reminds Congress that “war was useless, let us not spoil peace”

    Roberto Curilovic underlined the work and commitment of Argentine businessman Eduardo Eurnekian (Pic Infobae)

    An Argentine former naval pilot and Malvinas veteran who recently visited the Falkland Islands came out in support of Argentine ambassador in London Carlos Sersale di Cerisiano, who has been strongly criticized and summoned by his country's congress for having referred to Falklands/Malvinas government as the Islands' “top authorities”.

  • Friday, December 7th 2018 - 07:46 UTC

    Argentina announces identification on 106th combatant buried in Falklands

    Castagnari makes the Air Fo first Argentine combatant buried in the Falklands whose remains are returned to Argentina.

    Remains of the 106th Argentine combatant buried in the Falkland Islands has been fully identified, announced on Thursday Argentina's Human Rights Secretary Claudio Avruj. The Argentine official said the name of the newly identified soldier will be released on Friday on request of the family who wished a day of intimacy, after 36 years of waiting news from their loved one.

  • Tuesday, November 27th 2018 - 09:21 UTC

    Succesful identification of the 105 Argentine combatant buried in the Falklands

    The Argentine military cemetery at Darwin where the number of unnamed graves has diminished dramatically

    Argentina's Human Rights Secretariat Claudio Avruj announced on Monday the identification of the 105th combatant whose remains are buried in the Falkland Islands under a gravestone that read “Argentine soldier, only known upon God”. Claudio Alfredo Bastida was a 19-year-old conscript who died in the Mount Longdon battle on 12 June 1982.

  • Wednesday, October 31st 2018 - 09:04 UTC

    Argentine military cemetery in Falklands now has 102 identified gravestones

    The identification of Sbert is the result of the Humanitarian Project Plan agreed between Argentina, UK and Falklands, under Red Cross leadership

    Argentina's Human Rights Secretariat announced on Tuesday that the remains of another Argentine unknown combatant, buried in the Falkland Islands have been identified making him the 102nd successful case. Corporal Mateo Antonio Sbert, was born in the province of Buenos Aires in 1949, and fell on 31 May 1982, during the South Atlantic conflict, in combat against British commandos at Top Malo House. He belonged to the Engineers Corps and was a Geographic Service graduate.

  • Friday, March 30th 2018 - 22:16 UTC

    A humanitarian triumph in the aftermath of war

    Watching Sergio Fernandez and Geoffrey Cardozo together conveys a message of hope that in this time and age is refreshing.

    By Nicholas Tozer -Buenos Aires.
    THE visit by over two hundred of Argentine next-of-kin to the Argentine Military Cemetery in Darwin in East Falkland earlier this week undoubtedly marks a new milestone in the so-often troubled relations between Argentina and Britain over the Falkland Islands dispute.

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