Roger Waters ‘petitioned Cristina Kirchner to identify Argentine soldiers on Falklands’

“They went there with a name and now they’re just so many unknowns. Why?”
said Nelida Montoya, 69, Echave’s mother. “I want my son to have his
name.”

However, there is resistance from other families.

“I don’t agree with this appeal. I have already mourned,” said
Delmira Hasenclever de Cao, president of a commission of families of dead
soldiers. “The wound was closed 30 years ago.”

“We want each and every family to be consulted to see what their opinion
is,” de Cao added. “One family’s opinion cannot be imposed upon
another’s. Everyone has the same right to decide what they will do.”

Montoya’s group wants the work done by the Argentine Forensic Anthropology
Team, an independent group of scientists who developed their expertise
identifying victims of the 1976-1983 military junta and have since helped
unravel human rights atrocities on four continents.

The Red Cross has begun interviewing families of “unknown” soldiers
to better understand their concerns. Some want their loved ones’ bodies back
home.

Waters visited South America in March. In an interview with Chilean
television, the musician allegedly said he was “as ashamed as I
possibly could be of our colonial past … When we were out raping and
plundering and stealing”.

A journalist for the Chilean TVN state channel claimed Waters had made the
comments during an interview. Amaro Gómez-Pablos tweeted: “Roger
Waters was categorical: Las Malvinas belong to Argentina.”

In a later press conference in Chile on the same trip, Waters was more
cautious, stating: “Clearly there needs to be a solution to the problem
of the varying claims [to the Falklands] – the claims are so convoluted and
so old, going back as they do to the 17th century. It’s not a simple
situation.

“My view is that certainly it saved Margaret Thatcher’s political career
at the time at the cost of a great many Argentine and British lives, which
disgusted me then and still does now. I was never a huge fan of Margaret
Thatcher.”

Pink Floyd’s twelfth album, The Final Cut, was heavily influenced by the
Falklands conflict, with several critical references to Baroness Thatcher.

The introductory track, The Post War Dream, includes the line “Oh Maggie,
Maggie, what have we done?” – an apparent reference to the sinking of
the Belgrano, which left 368 Argentine sailors dead.

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