Tag: Falkland War

• Monday, December 10th 2018 - 06:58 UTC

  Red Cross underlines the significance of the remains' identification process in the Falklands

  

  The head of the International Red Cross humanitarian project, Morris Tidball-Binz, who led the identification process of Argentine combatants fallen in the 1982 South Atlantic conflict and buried in the Falkland Islands, said that the fact the dead can rest in peace, “is a fundamental step to build confidence among nations”, such is the case of Argentina and the United Kingdom.

• Saturday, December 8th 2018 - 07:55 UTC

  Name of remains at the Falklands' Argentine military cemetery 106th grave released

  

  A 19-year-old conscript soldier, and builder in his home province of Cordoba, Ramon Angel Cabrera, is the name of the 106th Argentine combatant whose remains buried in the Falkland Islands has been identified.

• Friday, December 7th 2018 - 07:46 UTC

  Argentina announces identification on 106th combatant buried in Falklands

  

  Remains of the 106th Argentine combatant buried in the Falkland Islands has been fully identified, announced on Thursday Argentina's Human Rights Secretary Claudio Avruj. The Argentine official said the name of the newly identified soldier will be released on Friday on request of the family who wished a day of intimacy, after 36 years of waiting news from their loved one.

• Monday, November 26th 2018 - 08:38 UTC

  Falklands/Malvinas air link and Cordoba stop over underlines “the historic reconciliation of UK and Argentina”

  

  Argentina's foreign minister Jorge Faurie said that this week's G20 leaders' summit in Buenos Aires not only will it be historic since for the first time a meeting of such significance is taking place in South America, but also because of the symbolic reconciliation and constructive attitude between Argentina and the United Kingdom referred to the Falklands/Malvinas Islands.

• Friday, November 23rd 2018 - 07:41 UTC

  Argentina announces the name of its 104 combatant buried in the Falklands

  

  Argentina announced the full name of the 104th combatant whose remains are buried in the Falkland Islands Argentine military cemetery at Darwin. According to the Human Rights Secretariat, conscript Fabricio Edgar Carrascull, born in Cordoba province was 18 when he died at the Goose Green battle on 28 May 1982.

• Thursday, November 8th 2018 - 09:06 UTC

  Roger Waters meets Malvinas mothers at concert; Buenos Aires City will declare him Guest of Honor

  

  Pink Floyd founder Roger Waters is currently on a tour of South America and this week was in Argentina for a first concert in La Plata, and on Thursday the City of Buenos Aires Legislative Council is scheduled to award him a Guest of Honor diploma.

• Wednesday, October 3rd 2018 - 07:51 UTC

  Argentina names 100th combatant buried in the Falklands; two graves mystery

  

  Argentina's Human Rights Secretary announced on Tuesday the full name of the 100th combatant fallen during the 1982 South Atlantic conflict and whose remains are buried at the Argentine military cemetery in the Falkland Islands, where for over 36 years they remained unidentified with only a white cross and a black marble tombstone reading, “Argentine soldier, only known to God”.

• Tuesday, October 2nd 2018 - 07:37 UTC

  Argentine minister and UK ambassador attend play performed by Argentine and British South Atlantic veterans

  

  Argentine foreign minister Jorge Faurie and British Ambassador Mark Kent attended on Sunday evening the San Martin Theatre for the last performance of “Mined Field”, a project written and directed by Lola Arias and which brings together six Argentine and British veterans from the South Atlantic conflict.

• Saturday, August 18th 2018 - 07:20 UTC

  The 97th Argentine combatant buried in the Falklands has been identified

  

  The 97th Argentine combatant, whose remains are buried as an unknown soldier at the Argentine military cemetery, Falkland Islands, has been identified, according to the official announcement, on Friday, from the Argentine Human Rights Secretariat.

• Saturday, July 28th 2018 - 14:53 UTC

  Relatives authorized to visit the grave of Argentine veteran buried in South Georgia

  

  Family of the only Argentine naval officer killed and buried in South Georgia during the 1982 South Atlantic conflict will soon be able to visit their father's grave in Grytviken, according to reports in the Buenos Aires media.