Tag: DNA tests

• Thursday, May 10th 2012 - 16:13 UTC

  Argentine government re-activates national committee of Malvinas combatants

  

  The Argentine government reactivated the National Committee of former Malvinas combatants which will support legal actions against crimes committed by Argentine officers during the 1982 conflict and demand DNA tests to identify the 123 remains buried in the Darwin cemetery in the Falklands.

• Friday, August 5th 2011 - 19:17 UTC

  Falklands/Malvinas conflict: To honour the dead, not use them

  

  Argentine Veterans of the 1982 conflict want the bodies of the 123 “unknowns” at Darwin cemetery to be identified.

• Saturday, July 16th 2011 - 17:19 UTC

  Clarin group heirs DNA-test negative to 1975/76 families, victims of dictatorship

  

  DNA tests on the adopted children of Argentina’s most powerful media family have failed to show any matches in a national gene bank where families of victims of the dictatorship (1976/1983) have donated their DNA.

• Tuesday, July 12th 2011 - 01:41 UTC

  Adopted heirs of Argentine media group test negative to first DNA tests

  

  DNA tests from the adopted children of one of Argentina's richest women do not match blood samples from two families who suspect the siblings were stolen as babies from political prisoners in the 1970s, legal sources said on Monday.

• Saturday, June 25th 2011 - 07:28 UTC

  Clarin group heirs give DNA blood samples to quell suspicions about their biological origin

  

  The adopted children of one of one of the wealthiest women in Argentina came forward to give blood and saliva samples Friday, hoping to quell suspicions they were stolen as babies from murdered political prisoners during military rule.

• Wednesday, June 22nd 2011 - 23:11 UTC

  Argentina’s Clarin owner siblings to have DNA blood tests on Friday

  

  The (adopted) heirs of one of Argentina’s most powerful media conglomerates will have blood samples taken in a Buenos Aires hospital on Friday after they decided to voluntarily have DNA tests to determine whether they coincide with DNA samples of relatives from people killed during the Argentine dictatorship (1976/1983).-

• Sunday, June 19th 2011 - 23:10 UTC

  Clarin family yields to growing pressure from Argentine government

  

  The adopted children of the influential Argentine media conglomerate ‘Clarin’ have agreed to have their blood drawn for DNA analysis. Blood samples from siblings Marcela and Felipe Noble Herrera will be checked at Argentina’s National Genetic Data Bank (BNDG).

• Friday, June 3rd 2011 - 23:37 UTC

  Claims of stolen babies: DNA tests for adopted heirs of Argentine media group

  

  An Argentine court ruled this week that the adopted children of one of the country’s largest media group must submit to DNA tests to determine if they were stolen as babies during Argentina's military dictatorship.