Tag: war veterans

• Tuesday, May 31st 2022 - 10:45 UTC

  Falkland Islands Veterans Reunion in Gosport and Portsmouth

  

  As the Falkland Islands Liberation Day approaches, on 14 June, commemoration events and services are being held across the United Kingdom and the Falklands, and over last weekend it was Gosport and Plymouth that marked the 40th anniversary of the 1982 War and honored those who did not return from the South Atlantic.

• Thursday, March 17th 2022 - 10:02 UTC

  Argentine war veterans pepper-sprayed for demanding proper medical care

  

  A group of veterans of the 1982 Falklands/Malvinas War was repelled with tear gas Wednesday by the Buenos Aires police during a demonstration in front of the PAMI social security agency where they demanded the fulfillment of the medical care program to which they are entitled.

• Monday, September 2nd 2019 - 09:04 UTC

  Germany asks the Polish people for forgiveness on the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II

  

  Germany’s president expressed on Sunday deep remorse for the suffering his nation inflicted on Poland and the rest of Europe during World War II, warning of the dangers of nationalism as world leaders gathered Sunday in the country where the war started at incalculable costs.

• Friday, September 11th 2015 - 06:23 UTC

  Malvinas war declassified documents delivered to Argentine veterans

  

  Argentina's Defense minister Austin Rossi handed Malvinas veterans a report on the 1982 South Atlantic conflict compiled from recently declassified military documents. The report handed to Ernesto Alonso, head of the Malvinas former combatants national committee was drafted by the ministry's Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law desks.

• Thursday, March 5th 2015 - 06:41 UTC

  Malvinas war veterans will take their torture case to an international court

  

  Malvinas war veterans who had claimed to be victims of abuse and torture by their superior officers during the Falklands conflict of 1982 will take the matter up with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), the CECIM centre of former soldiers from La Plata announced.

• Monday, January 16th 2012 - 19:32 UTC

  Falklands’ conflict gunner meets Skyhawk pilot he shot down, at his home in Argentina

  

  A Royal Navy veteran from the Falklands War has completed an extraordinary journey to meet the Argentine pilot he thought he had shot down and killed during the 1982 conflict.

• Thursday, May 12th 2011 - 15:56 UTC

  Falklands’ pilgrimage of HMS Fearless veterans to honor fallen comrades

  

  Ten veterans of HMS Fearless, deployed as part of Operation Corporate during the 1982 Falklands conflict, were reunited on a pilgrimage to the Falklands this week.