Tag: Darwin Cemetery

• Wednesday, February 21st 2018 - 07:04 UTC

  Malvinas fallen relatives will be flying to Falklands at the end of March, says Argentine media

  

  The next of kin of 103 Argentine combatants fallen during the 1982 Falklands conflict will be travelling to the Islands next 26 March with the purpose of honoring the 88 unknown conscripts, buried at the Darwin cemetery, that were finally identified in a joint effort from the Argentine and British governments, the International Red Cross and consent from Falklands elected authorities.

• Monday, February 5th 2018 - 05:02 UTC

  Argentine officials and Malvinas relatives preparing trip to the Falklands

  

  Argentine officials and representatives from the Relatives of the Malvinas fallen committee met last Friday to consider details of the trip to the Falklands, which is being organized for the next of kin of the 88 recently identified Argentine combatants remains buried at the Darwin cemetery.

• Friday, February 2nd 2018 - 07:15 UTC

  Argentine airports company struggles to take off in Wall Street public offering

  

  Shares of Corporacion America Airports struggled to get airborne on their market debut on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday after the Argentine airport operator priced its initial public offering at the lower end of an already reduced range.

• Wednesday, September 6th 2017 - 06:40 UTC

  Falklands' Darwin cemetery holds 121 single unmarked graves reveals Red Cross

  

  Humanitarian exhumation tasks at the Darwin cemetery in the Falkland Islands unearthed 121 body remains of Argentine combatants, and not 123 as originally expected, revealed the International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC, during a media conference in Buenos Aires.

• Friday, August 11th 2017 - 08:16 UTC

  Falklands' Argentine cemetery clandestine photos: Red Cross has all the facts and identity of the alleged individual

  

  ”Everything was caught on camera and there is an ongoing investigation,” the International Red Cross has confirmed, referring to the controversy in July when images of the Argentine cemetery in the Falkland Islands were reproduced in the Argentine press.

• Monday, July 3rd 2017 - 08:46 UTC

  ICRC work in the Falklands/Malvinas continues as planned

  

  The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) forensics team working to identify the remains of Argentine soldiers buried in Darwin cemetery has reported good progress.

• Monday, June 19th 2017 - 12:47 UTC

  Identification of Argentine soldiers buried in Falklands begins

  

  As per the agreement between Argentina and Great Britain, the task is carried out by a mission of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Relatives of the fallen feel mixed emotions.Thirty-five years after the war and after prolonged negotiations between the two governments, the ICRC mission is already on the islands to begin as soon as weather permits it the exhumation of 123 Of the 237 graves under a plaque “Argentine Soldier only known to God.”

• Friday, June 9th 2017 - 11:14 UTC

  Falklands: Red Cross exhumation of Argentine remains in three phases

  

  With 123 graves to be exhumed but 140 families waiting for news, the exhumation and identification of Argentine war dead in the Falklands will bring answers to some families, but not every family involved, Head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Operational Coordinator for the project to identify the remains of Argentine soldiers buried at Darwin Cemetery.

• Wednesday, June 7th 2017 - 09:19 UTC

  Falklands government welcomes Red Cross team to begin humanitarian work

  

  The Falkland Islands government, FIG, has extended its welcome to Laurent Corbaz, head of the International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC, project to identify the remains of the unknown Argentine soldiers buried at the Darwin Cemetery.

• Friday, June 2nd 2017 - 06:15 UTC

  ICRC team underlines good understanding with Falkland Islanders

  

  Head of the Humanitarian Project Plan (HPP) team to identify Argentine soldiers buried at Darwin Cemetery confident to complete on-site operations in August, full task by end of year, speaks of “good understanding” with Islanders.