Tag: International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

• Sunday, October 14th 2018 - 23:34 UTC

  Nigeria: Abducted ICRC health care workers' execution imminent

  

  The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Sunday made a public appeal to the Nigerian Government in a last attempt to save the lives of Hauwa and Alice, two health care workers abducted in March by ISWAP (Islamic State's West African province group).

• Saturday, October 13th 2018 - 08:15 UTC

  Falklands: forensic team identifies remains of the 101th Argentine combatant

  

  The Argentine government announced on Friday that the number of identified combatants fallen during the 1982 South Atlantic conflict and whose remains are buried in the Falkland Islands has risen to 101. That means 101 gravestones at the Argentine military cemetery in Darwin now have a full name.

• 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, September 29th 2018 - 10:38 UTC

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

  

  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.

• 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.

• Wednesday, August 15th 2018 - 08:52 UTC

  Argentine Senate honors participants of the Darwin military cemetery identification process

  

  In a solemn ceremony on Tuesday the Argentine Senate distinguished the several participants in the recent identification process of the combatants buried in the Argentine military cemetery in Darwin.

• Saturday, August 11th 2018 - 09:02 UTC

  Three more graves have names in the Argentine military cemetery at Darwin

  

  Argentina confirmed on Friday the identification of three more soldiers fallen during the South Atlantic conflict in 1982, and whose remains rest in the Argentine military cemetery at Darwin in the Falkland Islands.

• Monday, July 16th 2018 - 07:20 UTC

  Argentine foreign ministry informs Tierra del Fuego delegation on the current Malvinas policy

  

  Overall the Argentine government is satisfied how relations with the UK regarding the South Atlantic, and Falklands' sovereignty claims are evolving, was the message with which members of the so called Malvinas Question Observatory from Tierra del Fuego province, returned to Ushuaia after meeting with foreign ministry officials in Buenos Aires, according to local media reports.

• Saturday, July 7th 2018 - 06:16 UTC

  Argentine forensic team identifies soldier 93 buried in the Falklands

  

  Argentina's Human Rights Secretary confirmed on Thursday that another combatant, killed during the Falklands conflict and buried at the Argentine military cemetery in Darwin has been identified. This brings the total to 93. The 19 year old conscript, Andres Folch was born in the northern province of Tucuman but lived in the San Marin county of Buenos Aires province.