Tag: DNA tests

• Friday, September 4th 2020 - 09:50 UTC

  Argentina and UK agree on new stage of Humanitarian Plan to identify fallen combatants in the Falklands

  

  UK and Argentina exchanged notes on Thursday in order to advance to a new stage in the Humanitarian Project Plan, which between 2017 and 2019 enabled the identification of 115 Argentine soldiers who died in the Falkland Islands during the 1982 conflict.

• Saturday, January 26th 2019 - 09:01 UTC

  Number of Argentine soldiers buried in the Falklands and identified now total 110

  

  The number of Argentine unknown soldiers buried in the Falkland Islands has fallen by three as those identified and with full names now total 110 out of the original 121/122 remains buried inat the Argentine military cemetery close Darwin.

• Friday, November 24th 2017 - 08:28 UTC

  Falklands: next month Argentine families will know results of DNA tests at Darwin cemetery

  

  The humanitarian mission to identify the Argentine unknown soldiers fallen during the South Atlantic conflict and buried in the Falkland Islands Darwin cemetery is reaching its end, and many families will finally know, after 35 years, where the remains of their loved ones rest, according to the Buenos Aires media.

• Thursday, June 16th 2016 - 20:35 UTC

  Falklands will receive a visit from the International Red Cross

  

  A four person delegation from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) will be visiting the Falkland Islands from 27 June to 2 July, as part of the humanitarian mission to help identify the mortal remains of unnamed Argentine combatants buried at the Argentine memorial in Darwin.

• Tuesday, October 27th 2015 - 06:36 UTC

  Falklands' “full agreement and involvement”, for any Argentine cemetery remains identification

  

  “If any identification is to take place of combatants buried in the Falkland Islands, it would have to be done with the full agreement and involvement of the Falkland Islands Government”, said the local government in a Monday release from Stanley.

• Saturday, October 24th 2015 - 06:50 UTC

  Malvinas veterans deliver letter at UK embassy requesting to identify remains buried in the Falklands

  

  Argentina Malvinas War veterans marched on Friday in Buenos Aires and protested before the UK embassy demanding London collaborates with the identification of the remains of Argentine soldiers buried at the Darwin cemetery in the Falkland Islands.

• Thursday, October 22nd 2015 - 06:30 UTC

  Malvinas veterans to march before UK embassy to demand DNA tests of remains at Darwin cemetery

  

  Malvinas war veterans will march next Friday in downtown Buenos Aires up to the British Embassy to demand that DNA tests of the remains in 123 unidentified graves at the Argentine memorial cemetery in the Falkland Islands be allowed to commence.

• 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.

• 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, 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.