Tag: Falkland War

• Thursday, June 8th 2017 - 07:54 UTC

  Poppy Coin Commemorates 35th Anniversary of Falklands War

  

  To commemorate the 35th Anniversary of the Falklands Liberation, Pobjoy Mint has produced a ‘Lest We Forget’ Poppy coin in honor of the soldiers that gave their lives for the sovereignty of their country.

• Sunday, June 4th 2017 - 14:05 UTC

  Falklands/Malvinas: Red Cross head of project has arrived in the Islands

  

  The International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC, has reported that final preparations are underway ahead of work to identify the mortal remains of the unidentified Argentine soldiers buried in Darwin cemetery at the Falklands/Malvinas. Laurent Corbaz, head of the project for the ICRC, arrived on Saturday to the Islands. The rest of the team is expected to join him in the coming weeks.

• Sunday, June 4th 2017 - 13:56 UTC

  Falklands: Goose Green commemorates 35th Liberation day

  

  Falkland Islanders who were held prisoner in the Goose Green Community Hall by the invading Argentine forces in 1982, joined with members of the British 3 PARA to commemorate those who died during the battle to liberate the settlement which happened at 13:30 hours May 29th.

• Monday, May 29th 2017 - 09:42 UTC

  Malvinas Veterans acclaimed as they parade in Buenos Aires

  

  Hundreds of Malvinas veterans were applauded and acclaimed as they marched through Buenos Aires on Friday May 27th as part of the May Revolution 207 anniversary commemorations. Veterans closed the traditional military parade along two kilometers, which this year assembled 6.000 troops from all branches plus an air pass of aircraft and helicopters.

• Monday, May 29th 2017 - 08:56 UTC

  Falklands Darwin cemetery: Red Cross identification mission begins round of talks in Argentina

  

  A delegation from the International Committee of the Red Cross is scheduled to begin this Monday a round of contacts in Buenos Aires related to the Humanitarian Project Plan for the identification of unknown Argentine combatants buried at the Darwin cemetery in the Falkland Islands.

• Friday, May 26th 2017 - 10:20 UTC

  Argentina honors Spanish fisherman who spied on the Task Force during the Falklands war

  

  The Argentine embassy in Madrid honored a Spanish fisherman from Galicia, Fernando Otero, as a Malvinas Veteran for services accomplished during the 1982 Falklands war, spying on the British Task Force as she approached the South Atlantic. The event took place on Argentina's National Day, May 25th.

• Friday, May 19th 2017 - 12:09 UTC

  Malvinas Veterans expose Argentine Judiciary “delay” in addressing human rights abuses during the war

  

  Malvinas Veterans organizations met with members of the Inter American Commission on Human Rights, IACHR, currently in Buenos Aires and complained about the “delay” of Argentine courts in addressing dozens of cases involving human rights abuses committed by Argentine officers against conscripts during the 1982 Falklands conflict.

• Friday, May 19th 2017 - 06:42 UTC

  Argentina purchased several refurbished Mirages and engines for Pucaras

  

  Argentine reportedly has agreed to purchase several refurbishedDassault-Breguet Super Étendard fighter bombers originally from the French navy. Apparently the Mirages are similar to those Argentine used during the Falklands conflict in 1982 and will be incorporated to the Air Force, as part of an Argentine re-equipment of its military forces.

• Thursday, April 6th 2017 - 06:31 UTC

  Tech entrepreneur wants to rescue Falklands' flagship HMS Hermes from the scrap heap

  

  A technology entrepreneur is looking to raise around £15m to save the Falklands Task Force flagship on which he once served from the possibility of scrap, and is looking to celebrities and the public to help him out on his mission, according to channelweb.co.uk Falklands flagship HMS Hermes was decommissioned last month and is heading towards the scrap heap.

• Saturday, February 4th 2017 - 06:56 UTC

  Lami Dozo, head of the Argentine Air Force in the 1982 conflict has died

  

  Brigadier Basilio Lami Dozo, commander of the Argentine Air Force during the South Atlantic conflict died this week at the age of 88. In 1981 he was appointed to the military Junta next to General Leopoldo Galtieri and Admiral Jorge Anaya, and the three were responsible for launching the invasion of the Falkland Islands on 2 April 1982.