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High Court ruling favours 9.500 former conscripts Malvinas war veterans
A ruling from Argentina’s Supreme Court admitted “Malvinas war veteran condition” to a petty officer who was deployed in Puerto Belgrano and Rio Grande during the 1982 conflict thus enabling him to a veteran’s pension. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rules“ ... this would represent an additional 30 million US dollars per annum to the Treasury...”
Dec 21st, 2010 - 05:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0Everyone tells me how well Argentina is doing these days, so this should be just a drop in the ocean :-)
“ ... During the 1982 conflict with Britain 17 Argentine combatants were killed at Patagonian coast bases and proclaimed as “national heroes”....”
I didn't know our bullets went that far ... well, you live and learn !
This would mean one less diamond ring for Mrs. Cristina de Kirchner:(
Dec 21st, 2010 - 06:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0”The ruling is considered a lead case for the 9.500 former Argentine conscripts that during the 1982 conflict were deployed along the Argentine continental coast south of parallel 42, from Trelew to Ushuaia. Furthermore it could influence the demands of veterans that are camped in Buenos Aires Plaza de Mayo next to Casa Rosada (Government House) since 2008 claiming their pensions.” Best of luck to you guys!
proclaimed as “national heroes”....”
Dec 21st, 2010 - 08:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0In stanley when the first shot was fired,in BA when the second was fired
The rest only put up a token fight cos they were on a island and couldnt run home
LOL
The British 3rd Commando Brigade commander, Brigadier Julian Thompson was reported as having said:
Dec 21st, 2010 - 04:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“I was on the point of withdrawing my Paras from Mount Longdon. We couldn't believe that these teenagers disguised as soldiers were causing us to suffer many casualties.”
#4 where does that come from?
Dec 21st, 2010 - 06:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 03 Para were commanded by Lt Col Huw Pike for information.
Julian Thompson was a Royal Marine officer who was in overall charge of British Ground Forces at the start of the Falklands Campaign. I couldn't say whether the quote is accurate.
Dec 21st, 2010 - 08:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Mount Longdon was an Argentine hardpoint which they fought particularly hard to hold onto. The fighting was particularly fierce and the outcome of the battle was by no means a forgone conclusion. The Argentines held the high ground and british forces were exposed for part of their advanceon the Argentine positions.
At the end of the battle 19 British personnel were dead with about 30 Argentines dead and about 50 captured. British forces would have suffered much higher losses if the minefield they had marched through to get to the battlefield had not been ineffective in the low temperatures but fortunately many paratroopers were protected by the hand of God on that day.
Correction land forces were under the command of Major General Jeremy Moore. Brigadier Thompson commanded 3 Commando Brigade.
Dec 21st, 2010 - 09:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The mistake on Longdon was a quiet attack without the pre-bombardment that accompanied subsequent attacks. I didn't say it wasn't a hard battle, indeed it was, I asked where the quote came from.
paratroopers were protected by the hand of God on that day.
Dec 21st, 2010 - 09:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0and the Argie officers
Sub-Lieutenant Juan Domingo Baldini is accused of having staked several conscripts for having abandoned their posts to go looking for food, an act punishable by death in other armies. “Our own officers were our greatest enemies,” says Ernesto Alonso, the president of CECIM, a left-wing veterans group founded by Rodolfo Carrizo and Communist Party-affiliated former conscripts of the 7th Regiment. “They supplied themselves with whiskey from the pubs, but they weren’t prepared for war. They disappeared when things got serious.”
About your question
Dec 21st, 2010 - 11:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0My answer: look it up yourself.
Did you hear about this report today...all over the news...still alive?
You were wrong...told you so!
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Dec 22nd, 2010 - 12:47 am - Link - Report abuse 09 Marcos Alejandro
Dec 22nd, 2010 - 08:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0i Hear that Sergio Galvarino Apablaza is in rude health
http://www.santiagotimes.cl/news/other/19822-debate-continues-over-extradition-case-between-chile-argentina-
http://www.santiagotimes.cl/news/other/19822-debate-continues-over-extradition-case-between-chile-argentina-
#9 I'll take it from that answer you simply made it up. Margot, Walts like you piss me off, you demean and disrespect your own forces with lies like that. 3 Para happily acknowledge the brave defence put up by Argentine forces, using it to score points on a message board is just cheap.
Dec 22nd, 2010 - 09:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0(4) Marcos Alejandro
Dec 22nd, 2010 - 04:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It took me 5 seconds to Google that long, boring, well documented, British written, militaristic article you quote this from:
”The British 3rd Commando Brigade commander, Brigadier Julian Thompson was reported as having said:
“I was on the point of withdrawing my Paras from Mount Longdon. We couldn't believe that these teenagers disguised as soldiers were causing us to suffer many casualties.”
Saludos
#13 Ah right it was wikipedia was it then.
Dec 22nd, 2010 - 05:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0How difficult would it have been to answer wikipedia and provide a link?
As opposed to being an arse about a simple question.
Nothing changes.
13 Think, I am glad that you had no problem to find that long, boring, well documented, British written, militaristic article. Some small brain people type with their toes and aren't unable to do so.
Dec 22nd, 2010 - 08:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Saludos
#15 W M
Dec 22nd, 2010 - 09:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#16 F Y
Dec 23rd, 2010 - 03:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0“It took me 5 seconds to Google that long, boring, well documented, British written, militaristic article you quote this from”
Dec 26th, 2010 - 04:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If you had spend more than five minuites to check your sources you would realise that the quote is in fact, a long, boring, well documented, Argentinian, militaristic article. The quote itself is from:
Recollections of Argentine veteran Miguel Savage.
The quote is NOT is Major General Julian Harold Atherdean Thompson book.
Ohhhhhh…................
Dec 26th, 2010 - 04:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What a tormenting dilemma!
Who to believe..................?
Wiki the Pedia? : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mount_Longdon
Or
Zethee the Warmonger?
I seem to remember getting a right old earbashing for using Wiki for facts from...you.
Dec 26th, 2010 - 06:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I have not said that the quote was not said on the day, just that the only real(not wiki, think.) refrence to him saying said quote is in that Argentinian book.
Perhaps you should provide some refrences to back up what you say? im happy to. You could always go buy the book and have a read for yourself.
“http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Battle_of_Mount_Longdon”
(Source: recollections of Argentine veteran Miguel Savage)
http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Battle_of_Mount_Longdon”
(Source: recollections of Argentine veteran Miguel Savage)
Got to love discussing the falklands war, with an Argentinian, while he calls me a Warmonger. Oh the irony.
Sour grapes much?
Zethee… you are a total turnip and I don’t wish to waste my time with you……..
Dec 26th, 2010 - 08:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The two links you provide are just outdated copies from OLD versions of Wikipedia’s Mount Longdon article that has long since been edited, complemented and corrected by a host of dedicated contributors.
I have never criticized anyone for using or referring to Wikipedia.
I have repeatedly expressed in here my respect for Wikipedia and it’s information.
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