Parents of fallen soldiers deployed to Malvinas the Argentine flag

They visited the Darwin Cemetery, where remains of soldiers killed during the war have been identified

PUERTO ARGENTINO.- The mothers who kissed the crosses, the brothers who cried on their knees in front of the tombs, gestures of suffering that meant not to arrive at the time of visiting Darwin to finish discharging so much pain.

"My son, I knew you were here!" A mother shouted, suspending a rosary at the cross. "Ramón, if you knew what we were fighting to be identified," said one of the Cabrera brothers, in front of his brother's grave.

That was how
the arrival of the 63 parents of the last 22

newly identified soldiers

produced the humanitarian agreement between Argentina and the United Kingdom, in which participated the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Argentine team of forensic anthropology, in the morning of yesterday, when they arrived at Darwin's cemetery in the

Falkland Islands

. The trip was organized by America Corporation, which runs the businessman Eduardo Eurnekian.

Once the group traveled the 35 kilometers that separates them from the airport located at the Mount Pleasant military base, the relatives began to unload all their emotions.

"It's very important for my family," he says.
THE NATION Lorna Márquez, niece of Lieutenant Rubén Márquez, one of the heroes identified at this stage. "My grandmother died knowing that she was dealing with her grave, she was told anonymously in a Puerto Argentino bar in 1998. She died without being able to confirm it, so we today brought him ashes now lying in the same grave with his son, "she said with emotion.

The day began with good news for the participants of the trip. A few hours before leaving, the Human Rights Secretariat of the nation officially announced that two new cases of identification had yielded positive results. The soldiers were Eduardo Antonio Vallejos and Carlos Alberto Frías. The parents of these deceased soldiers received novelty while waiting for boarding. Thus, 112 soldiers are already located and there are only ten cases to locate.

Aida and Alicia Vallejos, Eduardo's sisters, one of the two soldiers identified in the last hours, said: "We received the news with happiness, we came to leave on his grave his card of health, which he once sold on the court.The Institute of Cordoba, before being integrated into the regiment of La Calera, "they remember during their tribute.

For Gladys Cisneros, sister of Sergeant Mario Cisneros, reaching the islands and being able to see the grave of his brother turned out unexpectedly. "We did not believe in this process, but we finally joined and we are happy to have done it." Cisneros, the "Perro", as his comrades called him, is a reference of the army, which the family did not know. "We knew little about his military life, he was very quiet, but at every corner of the country, we remember our brother as a hero, once they even gave us land from birthplace from San Martín to Corrientes, as a tribute. "
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They also managed to smile, after many tears, at José and Julián, the brothers of Ramón Cabrera of San Agustín, Córdoba. "They have no idea what we're fighting for right now," they commented, "that's why yesterday [por anteayer] at the meeting with the president, I asked Macri to thank him for everything he did, and he finally thanked me, "he said with a melancholy laugh.

At eleven o'clock begins a religious ceremony at the expense of the Argentine priest Ponciano Acosta, cousin of a dead

Malvinas

and the two priests of the islands, one Catholic and the other Anglican. Then the military honors were honored: a bagpiper from the Scottish Guard of the Islands played a funeral march and the Argentine veteran Omar Tabárez interpreted the key of silence with the same trumpet he had used during the war, snatched by a Scottish soldier. It was delivered in 2010.

Agreement with Great Britain

The visit to the Falklands took place on a historic day. A few hours before arrival, it was reported that the island authorities had for the first time authorized relatives
to wear an Argentine flag during his stay in Darwin, taking this fact for tribute and not for provocation.

This is what the parents did when they posed, all together for the group photo, holding a blue and white flag under the largest cross of the cemetery.

The head of the Family Commission, María Fernanda Araujo, thanked and thanked the people. "With a dialogue in peace, everything can be done," he said. And he recalled: "We laid a wreath at the San Carlos cemetery, where British soldiers died dead during the conflict."

The Human Rights Secretary, Claudio Avruj, stressed that "the Malvinas humanitarian plan is a global event recognized by the international community, which will remain in the memory of all". He added: "37 years of silence and indolence have pbaded before the heroes and their families, the state accompanies them today and thanks them for all that they have given . "