Malvinas: the grave D.B.5.9. who became "Rubén Márquez"

The Malvinas war that started a April 2, 1982 left a balance of 649 Argentine soldiers killedof which 237 are in the Darwin Cemetery

Rubén Eduardo Márquez was one of 123 fallen soldiers who, until 2018, were buried under the legend "an Argentine soldier only known to God".

However, thanks to Humanitarian project plan, Márquez was the soldier No. 100 to identify.

Elda Gazzo, the mother of Rubén, died before the recognition of his body. But her nieces, Lorna and Victoria Márquez, received their uncle's property buried in grave D.B.5.9.

37 years after the beginning of the conflict with United Kingdom, they still remember Marquez after his well-deserved and awaited recognition.

The humanitarian project plan was born in London in 2008, where three former Argentine soldiers met ex-combatants from the United Kingdom, among whom Geoffrey Cardozo.

Cardozo is the one who gave them a report containing the data that he himself collected when he buried the bodies in Darwin's graveyard, which kicked off the project. . "Do not forget me".

In December 2016, Argentina and the United Kingdom agreed to begin the process of identifying Argentine soldiers.

The International Red Cross She would be in charge of providing the team of forensic experts who took the samples of the 123 soldiers buried without identification.

The process of exhumation begins in June 2017 and this will end with the identification of DNA samples two months later.

In March 2018, 248 families went to Darwin Cemetery to remember the people killed in the Malvinas, who at that time had identified 90 soldiers.

Darío José Castagnari, The Falklands hero who died in action on May 29, 1982 was the first man buried in Darwin and whose body had been exhumed and transferred to the mainland.

The history of Castagnari, like that of Márquez, are just a few examples of a story that left a plague that 37 years later still has not closed.