The founding anthropologist and director of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team, Luis Fondebride r, who in 2017 played a leading role in the identification of the bodies of Argentine soldiers killed in the Malvinas War buried in the Darwin cemetery, leaves his position in May. in Argentina for having been appointed to head the Anthropology Unit of the Red Cross in Switzerland. Fondebrider 's extensive and successful career includes works of great significance such as having identified the body of the son of the poet Juan Gelman, murdered by the military dictatorship, or the analysis of the corpse of the famous Argentine Ernesto Che Guevara.

In July 2017, the scientist remained in the Malvinas as part of the Argentine team of forensic anthropologists, who, together with another English team and the Red Cross, for two months extracted genetic samples from Argentine soldiers buried without identifying names in the Darwin cemetery. Then those samples They were compared with information provided by the families of the fallen, in multidisciplinary analyzes of genetics, medicine, dentistry and anthropology. The final result was the identification of 115 of the 121 soldiers who lay there.

“The balance of the Malvinas is very positive,” Fondebrider recalled in an extensive report by the newspaper Infobae. “115 relatives today know where their loved one is, it is a historical debt of the Argentine State,” he highlighted and reiterated that the process to identify the 7 remaining bodies will begin shortly. In 1984, the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF) was born, which would become in reference to its specialty and fundamental for the clarification of crimes against humanity. Fondebrider and the team were responsible for solving emblematic cases in the history of humanity, such as that of Che Guevara in Bolivia or the deaths of Chileans Pablo Neruda and Salvador Allende , the victims of the drug massacre in Mexico and the identification of Argentine soldiers of the Malvinas War.

Likewise, since those years they carried out the search and identification of the victims of the bloody civil-military dictatorship of 1976 in Argentina, an enormous work carried out in conjunction with the associations of mothers and grandmothers of the disappeared.Last month Luis Fondebrider received a call from the authorities of the International Red Cross based in Switzerland.