Argentina’s Falklands war dead have finally been named
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Buenos Aires: When Dalal Abd de Massad went to the Darwin cemetery in the Falkland Islands this week it was the first time that she had hugged the gravestone with her son’s name.
“I was finally able to cry at his grave,” Abd said of her son, Daniel. “I talked to him, told him everything that happened in these years. “I hugged that white cross as if I was hugging him.”
he relative of an Argentinian soldier visits the Darwin Military Cemetery on Falkland, or Malvinas Islands, after the tombs were finally named.
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Abd and her husband, Osvaldo Said Massad, were part of a delegation of 250 people, mostly family members of fallen soldiers, who travelled to the disputed islands for a ceremony to mark the identification of 90 Argentinian service members who died in a 1982 war with Britain and had been buried as unknown soldiers.
For 36 years, the plaque on Daniel Massad’s grave said “Argentinian soldier known only to God.” Now, thanks to the work of forensic scientists, families have finally learnt where their loved ones are buried.
When Eulogia Rodriguez reached the cemetery on Monday, she ran straight to the newly identified grave of her brother Macedonio Rodriguez, who died on the islands when he was 19.
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