Tag: International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

• Friday, November 24th 2017 - 08:28 UTC

  Falklands: next month Argentine families will know results of DNA tests at Darwin cemetery

  

  The humanitarian mission to identify the Argentine unknown soldiers fallen during the South Atlantic conflict and buried in the Falkland Islands Darwin cemetery is reaching its end, and many families will finally know, after 35 years, where the remains of their loved ones rest, according to the Buenos Aires media.

• Wednesday, September 6th 2017 - 06:40 UTC

  Falklands' Darwin cemetery holds 121 single unmarked graves reveals Red Cross

  

  Humanitarian exhumation tasks at the Darwin cemetery in the Falkland Islands unearthed 121 body remains of Argentine combatants, and not 123 as originally expected, revealed the International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC, during a media conference in Buenos Aires.

• Friday, September 1st 2017 - 07:58 UTC

  Falklands' Argentine cemetery DNAs “good quality” so far, says Red Cross

  

  About 50% of samples from exhumed remains of Argentine war dead buried in the Falkland Islands have been analyzed and all of them have provided good quality DNA, ICRC Operational Coordinator for Humanitarian Project Laurent Corbaz, stated this week. He provided an update on the work undertaken in recent months at the Argentine cemetery in Darwin.

• Wednesday, August 16th 2017 - 09:10 UTC

  FARC hands over weapons, prepares for the political phase of peace accord

  

  U.N. observers on Tuesday removed the last of more than 8,000 guns once carried by the guerrillas of Colombia’s largest rebel army and collected at 26 demobilization sites around the South American nation under a historic peace deal. The next phase of the peace deal is for the ex guerrillas to organize politically and run for seats in congressional elections.

• Friday, August 11th 2017 - 08:16 UTC

  Falklands' Argentine cemetery clandestine photos: Red Cross has all the facts and identity of the alleged individual

  

  ”Everything was caught on camera and there is an ongoing investigation,” the International Red Cross has confirmed, referring to the controversy in July when images of the Argentine cemetery in the Falkland Islands were reproduced in the Argentine press.

• Wednesday, July 19th 2017 - 08:55 UTC

  Red Cross expected to explain how Falklands' Darwin cemetery pictures were taken

  

  Controversy has erupted in Argentina following the release in Facebook of clandestine pictures from the current exhumation works at the Darwin Cemetery in the Falklands with the purpose of identifying the remains of Argentine combatants in at least 95 graves with tombstone reading, “Argentine soldier, known only to God”.

• Tuesday, July 18th 2017 - 14:45 UTC

  Falkland/Malvinas Islands: ICRC work to identify Argentine soldiers buried in Darwin cemetery continues as planned

  

  The work of the forensic team from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to identify Argentine soldiers buried in Darwin cemetery is making good progress and proceeding as planned.

• Monday, July 3rd 2017 - 08:46 UTC

  ICRC work in the Falklands/Malvinas continues as planned

  

  The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) forensics team working to identify the remains of Argentine soldiers buried in Darwin cemetery has reported good progress.

• Monday, June 19th 2017 - 12:47 UTC

  Identification of Argentine soldiers buried in Falklands begins

  

  As per the agreement between Argentina and Great Britain, the task is carried out by a mission of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Relatives of the fallen feel mixed emotions.Thirty-five years after the war and after prolonged negotiations between the two governments, the ICRC mission is already on the islands to begin as soon as weather permits it the exhumation of 123 Of the 237 graves under a plaque “Argentine Soldier only known to God.”

• Sunday, June 18th 2017 - 16:06 UTC

  Ambassador Kent: “Bilateral ties improving but Falkland islanders will define their own future”

  

  The British ambassador to Argentina, Mark Kent, underlined the United Kingdom's intentions to “improve” bilateral relations and admitted a meeting between President Mauricio Macri and Prime Minister Theresa May within the framework of the G20 was possible. However, he made it clear that with regards to the Falkland Islands question “the islanders have the right to define their own future.”