Ex-combatant settles in Malvinas to vote in elections – Telam

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 war conflict, Telam reported today various sources related to the case.

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.

"I made the change of address in the register of civil status about a year and a half ago.It is a symbolic claim of the Argentine sovereignty on the Falkland Islands, but also a tribute to one of his companions who died near me during the war, "admitted the veteran.

It is a symbolic claim to Argentine sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, but also a tribute to a dead companion who was very close to me during the war."

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