Tag: Darwin Cemetery

• Wednesday, April 3rd 2013 - 00:59 UTC

  Falkland Island's: identification of NN remains at Darwin memorial back on stage

  

  President Cristina Fernandez announced on Tuesday that 91 next of kin of Argentine combatants buried in NN graves at the Falkland Islands Darwin memorial have agreed and signed to have the remains DNA tested and clearly identified.

• Wednesday, March 27th 2013 - 07:39 UTC

  Falklands ‘Counter Strike’ online game has ‘British terrorists’ eliminated by ‘Argentine patriots’

  

  An Argentine company has developed a map for the popular online game Counter Strike in which players fight British “terrorists” on the Falkland Islands. The setting created by Dattatec.com has clocked more than 9,000 downloads in a few hours, after “going viral”.

• Friday, November 2nd 2012 - 06:16 UTC

  A Panamanian view of the Falkland Islands

  

  Yasmina Reyes is the Editor of the International Section of the La Prensa newspaper in Panama City and was one of the journalists from Central America that recently traveled to the Falkland Islands. She has written the guest post below about her experience.

• Thursday, November 1st 2012 - 06:20 UTC

  Malvinas War families’ commission honours benefactor of Argentine memorial in Falklands

  

  The Commission of Malvinas War Families paid homage to Argentine businessman Eduardo Eunerkian who has always been close to the organization and financed the construction of the Memorial at the Argentine cemetery in the Falkland Islands.

• Wednesday, October 17th 2012 - 17:00 UTC

  Argentina/Chile working on tunnel under the Andes linking the Atlantic and Pacific

  

  By 2022 if all works out as planned the Aconcagua Bi-Oceanic corridor should link the Atlantic with the Pacific coast of South America facilitating trade and business opportunities.

• Friday, August 10th 2012 - 22:42 UTC

  Falklands’ Argentine cemetery investigation extends to the UK and Malvinas families

  

  The investigation into the vandalized hermitage at the Argentine Cemetery in the Falklands has seen the local police investigation extend to the UK and Argentina. Forensic material has been sent to Britain and Falklands’ police have requested the Malvinas Families Commission to help identify the origin of a Spanish Bible with a message signed by a “Viviana” found inside the attacked shrine.

• Thursday, August 2nd 2012 - 06:15 UTC

  Argentina presents official protest to UK over Malvinas cemetery vandalism

  

  The Argentine foreign ministry confirmed in a release that it had delivered an official protest to the United Kingdom repudiating “the profanation of the monument” in Darwin, Falkland Islands, to the memory of the Argentine combatants killed during the 1982 Malvinas war.

• Wednesday, August 1st 2012 - 07:29 UTC

  Argentina will formally protest vandalism at the Darwin cemetery in Falklands

  

  Argentina repudiated the ‘profanation’ of the hermitage at the Darwin cemetery in the Falklands/Malvinas Islands, which holds the graves of Argentine combatants who lost their lives during the 1982 conflict.

• Wednesday, July 25th 2012 - 20:54 UTC

  Red Cross to again address London over the Falklands Argentine unnamed graves

  

  The International Red Cross pledged it will again contact British authorities with Argentina’s request for special forensic groups to travel to the Falklands to identify combatants buried in Islands’ unnamed graves.

• Wednesday, May 16th 2012 - 06:01 UTC

  Argentina insists before Red Cross on identifying remains of combatants buried in the Falklands

  

  Vice President Amado Boudou called for a ‘concrete reply’ to Argentina’s request for the International Red Cross to collaborate with the identification of the combatants fallen during the Falkland Islands conflict in 1982 and whose remains are buried at the cemetery in Darwin.