Tag: Darwin Cemetery

• Friday, May 31st 2024 - 10:35 UTC

  Mothers of Plaza de Mayo leader Nora Cortiñas dies aged 94

  

  Mothers of Plaza de Mayo (Founding Line) President Nora Cortiñas died Thursday in Morón, on the western outskirts of Buenos Aires, from complications resulting from a hernia surgery she had undergone days earlier. The iconic human rights activist was 94.

• Saturday, July 1st 2023 - 11:11 UTC

  EAAF identifies yet another body buried at Falkland/Malvinas Islands

  

  The Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF) identified the remains of Coast Guard Corporal Jorge Eduardo López, a combatant killed in action on May 10, 1982, and who is buried in the Falkland/Malvinas Islands, it was reported in Buenos Aires.

• Wednesday, June 28th 2023 - 18:42 UTC

  Argentina grants funds for Phase 3 of identification of combatants fallen in Falklands

  

  Argentina has announced it will finance 130 million Pesos (some US$ 250,000 at the current free market exchange rate) for Project EAAF 2023 which refers to Phase 3 of the Humanitarian Project for the identification of fallen combatants buried in the Falkland Islands.

• Thursday, December 8th 2022 - 11:53 UTC

  Francis kisses and blesses an Argentine flag and received soil from the Falklands cemetery

  

  Pope Francis on Wednesday received the head of the Buenos Aires Malvinas Museum, Edgardo Esteban, who visited him at his official residence in the Vatican, and as a gift gave him some soil from the Falklands Argentine military cemetery at Darwin.

• Wednesday, November 9th 2022 - 23:04 UTC

  Travel expenses to Falklands' Darwin Cemetery are not “abroad,” Argentine taxpayer cries

  

  An Argentine national who visited the Darwin Cemetery on the Falkland Islands to pay his respects to the combatants fallen in the 1982 war was outraged upon his return that his credit card was billing him the surcharges recently created by Superminister of Economy Sergio Massa for expenses abroad.

• Saturday, February 5th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  Falklands: Update on Humanitarian Project Plan 2 to identify remains of Argentine combatants

  

  On Friday Falkland Islands lawmakers, MLAs John Birmingham and Roger Spink met, via video link, with Laurent Corbaz from the International Committee of the Red Cross and members of his team to discuss the progress made in HPP2 (Humanitarian Project Plan 2) work.

• Wednesday, September 15th 2021 - 09:45 UTC

  Remains of Argentine combatants identified at last by ICRC mission

  

  The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Second Humanitarian Project Plan has identified the remains of four Argentine combatants from the 1982 Falklands/Malvinas war buried in grave C.1.10 at Darwin's military cemetery under wrong names, it was announced Tuesday.

• Saturday, August 28th 2021 - 09:55 UTC

  Genetic material of Argentine 1982 combatants lands in Córdoba for DNA testing

  

  Argentine forensic anthropologist Luis Fondebrider, at the service of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Thursday landed in Córdoba in a private flight from the Falkland Islands carrying genetic material to be used in determining the identity combatants buried in grave C.1.10 at Darwin's military cemetery.

• 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).