Falklands families in the Falklands ask the state to pay for their trips to the islands

They ask them to take them at least once a year to see the remains of the Malvinas.

March 31, 2019

Relatives of fallen soldiers during the Falklands War, whose remains were discovered during Red Cross operations and the Argentinean Forensic Anthropology team, asked the police for help. State to take charge of regular trips to the islands.

"We ask the state to understand that our people gave their lives to Malvinas and that as a state they must take us all at least once a year to see them, it is more often because we we need it, including those close to General Belgrano's cruise. " He told Telam the president of the Falklands Parents' Association during the Falklands War, María Fernanda Araujo, the sister of the soldier Elbio Araujo.

He also stated that "many of the heroes who gave their lives were livelihoods or were about to be, veterans who returned to the state provided them with a job, but the families of the deceased have forgotten. "

Relatives also need "special health care, psychologists and psychiatrists who are not GPs, but who are trained in the trauma and after-effects of war," he said.

For the relatives of the soldiers killed during the 1983 war, "Darwin's cemetery is a holy land, it's our little slice of paradise where most of us decided that the heroes would stay" said Araujo.

"All the trip to the islands is very special, as soon as the plane starts to roll at Ezeiza and that there is a silence that begins to be cut off after a while with sighs, when you start to see the islands, there are tears and laughter the landing which is a party, as soon as we walk on Malvinas, a silence that accompanies us within 45 minutes of the bus starts until we can see the silhouette of the cemetery, "he said.