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Montevideo, December 23rd 2024 - 03:58 UTC

Tag: Falkland/Malvinas War

  • Saturday, September 29th 2018 - 10:38 UTC

    Two more Argentine conscripts fallen during the Falklands' conflict have names

    The Argentine military cemetery at Darwin has less tombstones reading, Argentine soldier, only known to God

    The remains of two more Argentine conscripts who lost their lives during the 1982 South Atlantic conflict and are buried at the Argentine military cemetery in the Falkland Islands have been identified, according to the Human Rights Secretariat Office in Buenos Aires. This brings the total number of identified soldiers, previously only marked as “Argentine soldier, only known to God”, to 99.

  • Tuesday, May 8th 2018 - 06:36 UTC

    Malvinas veterans abused by their officers are demanding justice from IACHR

    “I was completing my time when the Malvinas were recovered. We were all called back and on 11 April, we were in the Islands”, explained Silvio Katz (Pic Vis a Vis)

    The Malvinas Islands ex Combatants Center, CECIM has requested the Inter American Commission on Human Rights, IACHR, to intercede before the Argentine government and demand a commitment that human rights abuses suffered by the Argentine conscripts during the South Atlantic conflict will be investigated. The case has 120 plaintiffs and 95 defendants.