An ex-fighter settled in Malvinas and gave the name of a dead soldier

A veteran in the United Kingdom from 1982, residing in Ushuaia, changed his address for the Falkland Islands and asked the civil registry to agree to write on his document the name of the person. a man killed near him during the conflict of war

The story of Osvaldo Hillar, a 56-year-old war veteran and president of the Falklands Veterans' Center in the federal capital, was revealed following the release by the Electoral Justice of the Census Data Census. . next Sunday

It seems that four voters have their home in the Falkland Islands and one of them is Hillar, the only resident currently in Ushuaia and who also confirmed in a dialogue with Telam his decision to place the name of his deceased friend as address.

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I changed address at the Civil Registry a year and a half ago. It is a symbolic claim of Argentine sovereignty on the Falkland Islands, but also a tribute to a deceased companion very close to me during the war, "admitted the veteran.

Hillar said that the winner is Eduardo Antonio Vallejo, who died between 11 and 12 June 1982 while he was standing in a trench and received shrapnel from a naval bomb that exploded two meters from him., two days after the fall of Puerto Argentino at the hands of the British.

Vallejo was from Córdoba, third of four brothers, and from the Falkland Islands he had sent four letters to his family.

Both had known each other since before going to the Malvinas because they were performing compulsory military service in the airborne artillery group 4 of La Calera (Córdoba) when they were summoned on the islands on April 23, 1982 and immediately traveled with a previous stopover. in Comodoro Rivadavia.

"His death is something that has marked me a lot and his inscription in the document is a way of being able to take it wherever I go," said veteran Fuegian.

Hillar clarified that before changing address, he had requested an authorization from Vallejo 's relatives and that they had accepted it.

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Civil status sources explained that, to change address in the Falkland Islands, the address provided by the plaintiff with the value "affidavit" is accepted.because the national authorities have no way of corroborating these data on the Malian territory.

In fact, the address "Eduardo A. Vallejo 103. Puerto Argentino" is included in Hillar's national identity document, as veteran Fuegian said.

Although the DNIs are sent by mail to the declared address, the officials send the documents to Tierra del Fuego for the particular cases and withdraw them in an office by the interested party. For Sunday's PASO, Fueguine's electoral justice set up a table for the district "South Atlantic Islands".

This table has been annexed to the last of the Ushuaia section, numbered 209, and will operate in the rural school "Entre Ríos" of Lago Escondido, located about 55 km from the capital of Tierra del Fuego.

Hillar said that he would go to vote Sunday and that he would do it with the DNI where the name of his deceased partner appears as home in the war.

"I am going to go with great pride, because I believe that sovereignty is not only declared, it must also be exercised every day by concrete acts," he said.