Tag: conscripts

• Monday, May 6th 2019 - 09:58 UTC

  Eighteen Argentine military officers face torture charges from the Malvinas war

  

  Next June/July eighteen former Argentine officers will be facing formal torture charges, allegedly committed against conscripts during the Falklands conflict 37 years ago, and twelve years since the beginning of the official investigation by the Tierra del Fuego federal court.

• Tuesday, December 21st 2010 - 05:19 UTC

  High Court ruling favours 9.500 former conscripts Malvinas war veterans

  

  A ruling from Argentina’s Supreme Court admitted “Malvinas war veteran condition” to a petty officer who was deployed in Puerto Belgrano and Rio Grande during the 1982 conflict thus enabling him to a veteran’s pension.