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Argentina grants funds for Phase 3 of identification of combatants fallen in Falklands
The Argentine military cemetery where 119 remains of combatants have been identified Argentina has announced it will finance 130 million Pesos (some US$ 250,000 at the current free market exchange rate) for Project EAAF 2023 which refers to Phase 3 of the Humanitarian Project for the identification of fallen combatants buried in the Falkland Islands.
To that effect the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights signed this week an agreement with the Argentine Team of Forensic Anthropology for the above amount which will also include the purchase of state of the art equipment and technology for the search of forcibly disappeared Argentines during military regimes.
In a brief official release officials point out that the “Argentine Team of Forensic Anthropology has been crucial for exposing the injustices and violations of human rights both in Argentina and in the whole of the world, In helping to identify Malvinas heroes fallen during the war and the many disappeared during the last military dictatorship, it has enabled to shed light on what happened and collect evidence for the trials of crimes against humanity”.
However “despite the necessary diplomatic agreement with the UK and the Red Cross for the third phase of the Humanitarian Project, as well as a trip to the Falklands for the relatives of those combatants identified in the Second Phase of the project, announced by president Alberto Fernandez in 2022, and to take place last December, which was postponed,” Argentina has complained about the situation.
The identification of combatants buried at the Argentine military cemetery at Darwin was done mainly in 2017 when 115 of the 122 exhumed were identified and in 2021 when the remains of another four were also identified in shared graves.
Finally 119 remains were identified among the 122 burials, but as Argentine veteran and promoter of the foundation “Don't forget me”. Julio Aro, “there are at least three remains unidentified at the cemetery in Malvinas”.
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Read all commentsIt will be Good when they get those last remains identified and No longer have this as an excuse to Hassle the Falklanders.
Jun 29th, 2023 - 07:01 pm +1Word is that Andres Dachary has broken off diplomatic relations with the UK and may be about to declare war on the Falkland Islands.
Jul 01st, 2023 - 01:09 am 0https://twitter.com/ADachary/status/1674909167797035009
Apparently, Argentina only cancelled its half of the Foradori-Duncan agreement.
I am pretty sure they already have the DNA from the remaining 2 graves anyway. Just a case (not easy I agree after 41 yrs) of finding a sufficiently close relative to get the exact match.
Jul 01st, 2023 - 01:21 pm 0Good news is announced today that one of the original remaining 3 has just been identified and named- and in due course his grave will receive the name plate with his name on. hence only 2 to find.
Some damned cheek in Argentina complaining about FI and UK - It was then who tore up the 2016 agreement in TOTAL.
In particular the offshore fisheries transfer of catch reports etc agreement that allowed both S Arg and FI to agree seasonal catch levels and when if required to close both zones etc in the name of fisheries conservation for the benefit of the whole SW Atlantic stocks.
Utterly irresponsible of them bearing in mind todays climate change etc -etc.
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