President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner will be heading today the inauguration of the Malvinas Museum at the ex ESMA detention center where thousands were illegally held prisoners and tortured during Argentina’s 1976-1983 military dictatorship.
The ceremony has been scheduled to start at 5 pm. Ministers, civil and military authorities along with social and political leaders are expected to join CFK this afternoon.
According to the official information provided to the press, the Malvinas Museum will seek to “promote the vindication” of Argentina’s long-standing sovereignty claims over the British-seized territories, with a War Memorial also to commemorate the 649 Argentine soldiers killed during the South Atlantic conflict Buenos Aires and London fought over the sovereignty of the resource-rich archipelago back in 1982.
The Memorial has been placed in an open square outside the building. Visitors will be able to access the commemorative monument through a dock that will connect the museum with an outdoors site that will reproduce the geography and landscape of the Islands.
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