MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Falklands operation to release land from Argentine planted antipersonnel mines
A project to release land from antipersonnel mines planted by the Argentine invaded forces during the 1982 Falklands conflict is “progressing solidly” said Guy Lucas, Chief Executive Officer from BACTEC a group which specializes in explosive ordnance, mine action and bomb disposal. Read full article
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Jan 22nd, 2012 - 09:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0The Falklands keeps on growing :-))))))
the issue of landmines left over from the war, is an issue that has held for 30 years by a political issue. If there is real will to lift the minefields, I would do, many years no longer speak more of this issue. The issue of landmines remains to remember how bad we are, to victimize Britain. And demonizing Argentina.
Jan 22nd, 2012 - 10:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0This is a topic that comes to light when it is convenient policies or, as Cameron used the same theme (and the reality is that he does not remember the islands even when going to the bathroom to poop)
“The escalation of British Prime Minister David Cameron is similar to that of Margaret Thatcher in 1982. Like 30 years ago, the UK suffers from a severe recession and need to calm the internal crisis, diverting the focus and the Malvinas is the perfect excuse ”
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@2 JPL
Jan 22nd, 2012 - 11:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0Your talking Rubbish!!!
Mines are a Curse on the World and argentina Loved the Falklands so much that it planted these indiscriminate weapons to Maim the Local Islanders!!
Long Live the Falklands
Down with argentine Colonialism.
Any Argentine scrap metal workers willing to take these mines away? On second thought that may not be a good idea.
Jan 22nd, 2012 - 11:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0I'm glad the mines are being removed but Argentina should be made to pay the cost of removal either by voluntarily paying the bill or all Argentine exports to Uk should be banned until we make sure they've lost as much money as cleaning their mess up is costing Falklanders.
Jan 22nd, 2012 - 12:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The cost of demining is an excuse. UK spending a hefty amount on defense. Clearly with a fraction of that expense could have been removed landmines. The minefields were left for psychological reasons. Do remember the year 1982 the islanders and visitors, swarming everywhere the red signs that say “mine”, to say: “that Argentines are bad.” The fields of landmines remained all these years for a specific reason, deliberately, on purpose
Jan 22nd, 2012 - 03:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@6
Jan 22nd, 2012 - 03:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0These things take time JPL you should know that,it took 30 years for you to bring members of the junta to book for their crimes,and i would dare say not so risky
@6 JPL
Jan 22nd, 2012 - 04:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0given that
a) argentina tried to violently subjugate the islanders, disenfranchise them of their basic human rights, and planned to ethnically cleanse them in 1982
b) continues to celebrate this as some great heroic adventure, while screaming in self righteous hysteria that it was all the fault of britain that argentina invaded
c)has tried to sabotage and blockade the islander's economy and make life as hard as possible for the islanders, as punishment for not accepting the aforementioned subjugation
d)argentina continues to demand the islanders be stripped of their rights, homes, and resources
e) argentina still demands the islanders accommodation the bodies of the men sent to carry out this subjugation, and demands they allow propaganda visits despite all of argentina's unprovoked attacks on the islanders
the minefields are hardly necessary to remind the islanders of argentina's cowardice, hypocrisy, and sickening self righteousness with regards to the islands.
they have a very long list of reasons to hold scumbags like you in contempt, and your whining about the minefields your country planted just helps validate this.
now stop whining and crawl back to the malvinense.com. that collection of bitter, spineless conspiracy theorists is much more suited to your delusional hysteria.
he just want to sweep the past under the carpet,
Jan 22nd, 2012 - 05:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0if all the bad things were removed from sight, then perhaps they can tell the world they did nothing,
oh sorry, they do that now, dont they .
actually given his past, i would guess he is going to run crying back to his website and use our comments as “proof” that the islanders are all evil racists who need to be suppressed (yes i know how idiotic this is but it seems to be his forte).
Jan 22nd, 2012 - 05:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0he seems to have latched onto the whole landmine thing as his attempts to whine about every other subject in the Falklands has led to painful humiliation, whereas here there is comparatively little attention
Juan Pablo Leronde, author of a paper, claiming that over 60 Sea Harriers were shot down by the Argentine Air Force. One slight flaw, that many didn't exist in 1982.
Jan 22nd, 2012 - 09:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Says it all about his credibility, say hi to the fruit cakes at El Malvinense for me.
JustinKuntz, AKA Wee Curry Monster, author of a lot of lies in Wikipedia's Gibraltar and Malvinas articles. One slight flaw, that Wikipedians got tired and kicked him out.
Jan 22nd, 2012 - 10:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Says it all about his credibility, say hi to your bottle and your antidepressives for me.
I see that the lying asshole jumps up again spreading lies. I'm still editing wikipedia you liar and its FALKLANDS. JPL is banned though.
Jan 23rd, 2012 - 11:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0El Thicko, liar, has no fucking credibility, sneaky snide little shit hiding behind anonymity as he hasn't got the balls to use his real name.
Lies? Well liar, any chance of providing some solid documentary proof for Argentina's claim of an expulsion in 1833? Given the contemporary record shows it is a lie?
No, says it all about your lack of credibility.
Such a good job Argentina once again and again! The whole world speaks of the sovereignty dispute all the time, gets to know the truth and becomes aware of Argentina's peaceful stance and growing support. This is exactly the least that the UK expects: the existence of the dispute and the need to solve it cannot be no longer hidden or denied! Come to terms with it UK both in London and your colony!
Jan 23rd, 2012 - 12:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@8 Braedon
Jan 23rd, 2012 - 01:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The facts contradict what you say, 10,000 troops adhered strictly to the population of Puerto Argentino. There were no rapes, no robberies, no nothing, homes that were needed were not confiscated, they rent to the owners. Private property was respected. As an example of what I say, the islanders are being withdrawn from the city to go to the interior of the islands left them the keys to their houses to the military police in Argentina.
On an alleged ethnic cleansing, is a fantasy, there was no plan on this.
This is not hysteria. Argentina acts in accordance with international law, Argentina can not recognize a government flag vessels or aircraft from a place that believes usurped and occupied by a colonial power.
Argentina does not want to deprive their private property to anyone. This is a legend created by the “hard line” of the islanders. No one is going to strip.
The minefields were not placed to destroy the inhabitants. Mines are an instrument of war is not prohibited by the Geneva Convention in 1982. were placed to prevent re-occupation of the islands by Britain.
I do not respond to insults.
Greetings, JPL.
Private property was respected.
Jan 23rd, 2012 - 01:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But taking a shit inthe Post office was OK ?
11 JustinKuntz (#)
Jan 23rd, 2012 - 03:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What, again with the same lies?. You are not ashamed to lie too?
You are the personification of intolerance
So you expect your invasion to be praised because you (for once in argentine history) followed the basic rule of law?
Jan 23rd, 2012 - 03:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Also the fact you (barely) were able to stop committing mass rape and murder is utterly irrelevant given that
a) You invaded them with zero provocation
b) You stripped them of their basic human rights, disenfranchised them of their land, and given the plans of Admiral Anaya you were planning to ethnically cleanse them and replace them with argentines
c) You did this ALL for a delusional national myth, which is both utterly fraudulent (which is why argentina refuses to take it to the international court) and sickeningly hypocritical (given the nightmarish crimes your ancestors committed against the native and non white population of lands you stole)
The only thing preventing Jorge Anaya from carrying out his plan immediately was the fact that some others in the junta thought they could still convince Britain to abandon the islanders if there was guarantee of their safety.
However argentina still demanded disproportionate settling rights in which the islanders had no rights to their land, and had Britain not liberated them, they would have been “removed” like so many others who stood in the way of argentina’s nationalistic delusions.
If you are “fully within international law” why do you never go to ANY international court to settle the issue? Such issues have been settled in the ICJ for 60 years now, often against the powerful nations (like the US vs Nicaragua).
And again, you whine about “the hard line” of the islanders. Stop being such a self pitying coward.
ALL of the hatred towards your country is your own fault. If argentina had not spent the past 40 years threatening, blackmailing, harassing, attacking, and blockading them for no reason whatsoever, as well as insulting them and their very human identity, the islanders would not hold you in such contempt.
This entire issue is entirely argentina’s fault
16 stick up your junta
Jan 23rd, 2012 - 07:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Is this a joke? That 4 soldiers had pooped in her office seems worthy of mention in the history books? Instead, the exemplary behavior of 10,000 soldiers with the few islanders who were in Puerto Argentino, it is. I talked to islanders were in 1982 and recognized the good treatment they received within the overall context. The rest is cheap propaganda.
The Argentines are not monsters as hard line of the islanders want them to believe the majority of the islanders
Greetings, JPL.
@19
Jan 23rd, 2012 - 07:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0yes exemplary treatment... aside from
a) putting guns between islander housing in order to make them human shields showing both sickening cowardice, and contempt for their lives
b) imprisoning over 100 islanders in sickening conditions in goose green
c) imprisoning over a dozen islanders in fox bay
d) Patricio Dowling's utter cowardice in his abuse of islanders, including threatening children with his rifle
e) turning their school into a drilling ground
f) massive vandalism during and after the war on public locations, mostly out of your conscript's impotent bitterness of losing and wishes to take it out on the islanders, coupled with their fear of reprisal should they attack any islander
this was committed both by your officers AND by your conscripts, who you still demand the islanders allow to be buried in the islands
and stop whining about the hard line of the islands, as it just makes you look all the more pathetic. your actions towards the islanders for the past 50 years has demonstrated argentine cowardice, spinelessness, hypocrisy and delusional self importance to both the world and the islanders, so grow a pair of testicles and accept some responsibility
a. no artillery cannon was placed on the streets of Port Stanley. They were out of town. All photos of the war prove this.
Jan 23rd, 2012 - 11:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0b. The inhabitants of Goose Green degente were relocated in the community room for their own safety, were not placed in a “concentration camp” where they were murdered, tortured and forced to perform hard labor. None of that, and you know it. The isthmus was a zone of military operations to prevent recolonization of the islands. You probably know something of the Lord's activities in that area Hardcasstlle right?
c)...
d)Again with the timely and unique history of Dowling...Is that all you have? Everyone knows that was immediately sent to the mainland for their behavior. Besides his alleged black history never actually check if it was so.
e) Refers to the school of Goose Green? It was a wooden building that was destroyed because the British used it to attack Argentine positions from there Did you pretended that the soldiers stood watching him shoot from there and do nothing? in any case the British should not have attacked from that building. The school survived until the last day of the fighting.
f) A total lie. Do not understand how you can lie so much. ¿Massive Vandalism? for the love of god.
I do not respond to insults.
Greetings, JPL.
@JPL
Jan 24th, 2012 - 12:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0a. And yet you refuse to cite any photo which backs you up. However i have a video which also records the cowardice argentine troops showed with their abuse of the Red Cross
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVHjKLIDAUY&feature=plcp&context=C3365bbaUDOEgsToPDskIoL-d8t8eSFMsVVN2GmMhF
b. again you whine that argentina should be praised for not mass murdering the islanders. This does not change the fact that you treated then with utter contempt of both their rights and of their lives, your sickening treatment of the residents of goose green is documented in several records from the islanders, and was little more than an attempt to use them as hostages in order to prevent a more major british attack. Here is an eyewitness record
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVHjKLIDAUY&feature=plcp&context=C3365bbaUDOEgsToPDskIoL-d8t8eSFMsVVN2GmMhF
c) You imprisoned over a dozen innocent people for zero reason in their own land. Yet you pretend to be the victims. How unbelievably pathetic.
d) So you demand we do not judge you on the behaviour of your men when it does not suit you? And his “alleged” history is backed up both by British and argentine sources. Grow a pair of balls and accept responsibility for what he and others like him did.
e) i am referring both to that, and to the school in Stanley. Why did you turn a SCHOOL into a barracks? Why did you fortify yourselves in a heavily populated area? Given that it was your nation which invaded, you whining about Britain fighting back just shows how spineless you and your ilk truly are.
f) i refer to the above video, and your conscript’s sickening habits in islander’s buildings was matched only by the speed of which they surrender to a force half their size.
take responsibility for the stupidity and cowardice of your conscripts, and kindly grow a spine
21 JPL
Jan 25th, 2012 - 02:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0''A total lie. Do not understand how you can lie so much. ¿Massive Vandalism? for the love of god.''
Your attitude is quite unbelievable. You seem to be completely forgetting that this is a country full of people who lived through it. They were there and they know what they saw. The place was completely trashed.
I live with someone who spent the whole conflict imprisoned in their own home, often at gunpoint.
You might not want to believe this of your own people, but until you can face the truth there can be no progress.
(23) Monty96
Jan 25th, 2012 - 04:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0You say:
“The place was completely trashed”
I say:
Ermmmm......
“Completely trashed”?
You mean, like Dresden or Hiroshima?
Aren't we being quite a bit ”over-emotional” here?
Remember next time at St Mary’s to confess to Fr. Peter about you telling porkies to the Argentineans…….
Yes….Yes… my dear…..
Believe it or not, lying (even to an Argie) is still a sin.
Think
Jan 25th, 2012 - 10:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0Are you really calling Dresden and Hiroshima 'massive vandalism'?
What happened here was vandalism, in some cases. What happened there was something else entirely.
And I haven't been to confession since 1987, and not planning to start now. I'm not sure that exaggerating to Argentines is very high up on the list of sins.
I must confess though that not everything I say on here, especially about myself, is 100% true ;-)
(25) Monty96
Jan 25th, 2012 - 08:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Naughty, naughty girl…………. What will the Padre say……
Hmmmm…. “Thinking” about it….
You haven't been to confession since 1987, you say…..
And you remember the year quite precisely, it seems….
First Holy Communion………….., quite probably……
Holy Mary, Mother of Christ!.....
That makes you kind of… 35’ish…..
Just as young Isolde…
Are you clones?
How do know, Think, that we are not ldentical twins!
Jan 27th, 2012 - 10:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0Or maybe we are the same person!♥
JPL,
ln answer to your statement that there were no murders or rapes.
You thought the British wouldn't fight for these lslands, would just let them go.
So, you were initially on your best behaviour.
You correctly reasoned that although the British might do nothing about retaking the Falklands, they would go to war with you IF there was an orgy of rape & killing.
You knew then if you did that we would be back.
ln my opinion,its only my opinion, the biggest mistake that you made was to send photographs around the world of captured Royal Marines being forced to lie on the ground.
That guaranteed that we would fight you.
Just couldn't help yourselves, could you?
You then intended to remove any Falklanders who opposed you & replace them with “loyal” Argentines.
You really are a despicable people.
lsolde
Jan 27th, 2012 - 07:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0ln my opinion,its only my opinion...
[your opinion, is better than most if not all,argentinian facts .]
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