Tag: Argentine soldiers

• Monday, April 27th 2015 - 07:16 UTC

  Falklands has received no formal request to DNA test Argentine soldiers buried at Darwin

  

  The elected government of the Falkland Islands (FIG) has not received any formal request from Argentina or the International Red Cross, ICRC to exhume and identify Argentine soldiers buried at Darwin, according to the last edition of Penguin News, the Falklands' weekly.

• Tuesday, February 14th 2012 - 21:36 UTC

  Dozens arrested and injured in Buenos Aires as Malvinas veterans clash with riot police

  

  Dozens were arrested and injured in downtown Buenos Aires when groups of former Argentine soldiers that fought during the Malvinas war clashed violently with the police demanding to be recognized as full veterans.

• Friday, August 5th 2011 - 19:17 UTC

  Falklands/Malvinas conflict: To honour the dead, not use them

  

  Argentine Veterans of the 1982 conflict want the bodies of the 123 “unknowns” at Darwin cemetery to be identified.

• Thursday, August 4th 2011 - 02:49 UTC

  Malvinas veterans ask for anthropologists to identify Argentine soldiers buried at Darwin cemetery

  

  A Centre of Malvinas War Veterans and next of kin presented a petition before a federal court requesting the identification of Argentine combatants buried at the Darwin Cemetery in the Falkland Islands and the circumstances of their death during the South Atlantic conflict in 1982.