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Seven crew members abandon jigger in Falklands, but later decide to return
Seven Vietnamese crewmen who jumped into Stanley Harbour from their Falklands’ licensed fishing vessel in the early hours of Sunday morning were later found safe and well by a local resident. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesNew Vietnamese take-away opens in Stanley? Love them spring rolls. One does kind of think that the Falklands needs an ethnic minority.
Feb 13th, 2012 - 10:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“ were later joined by RAF Search and Rescue helicopter with FISHOPS coordinating the search”
Feb 13th, 2012 - 10:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“The individuals were subsequently found by a member of the public”
Where was the prince? so much money spent on this fool and a drunk walking by does the job for him :-)))
You normally find this in French ports, trying to sneak into the UK,
Feb 13th, 2012 - 10:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But now they are trying in the Falklands,
Be careful they don’t use the human rights act, to remain .
[still] they could have jumped ship in the Malvinas and drowned, as it don’t exist lol.
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2 Marcos Alejandro
Feb 13th, 2012 - 11:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Where do you live?
4 Anti-Fascist
Feb 13th, 2012 - 11:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Ask your sister.
To be fair to Marcos Alejandro, he's clearly not an Argie. If he was then he wouldn't be on this website, he'd be on 'La Nacion' where the commenters have a running tally of how many anti-kerchnerites they have buried under their respective patios.
Feb 13th, 2012 - 11:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Marcos
Feb 13th, 2012 - 11:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0will we see you jump ship and ask for asylum one day .
@5: Marcos:
Feb 14th, 2012 - 12:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0I heard somewhere that Anti-Fascist's sister is a transvestite.
I guess you found out the hard way.
Mrs Crackpot, is that your fantasy?
Feb 14th, 2012 - 12:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0@9 Marcos:
Feb 14th, 2012 - 12:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0Yes, Mrs Crackpot is my fantasy.
Happy Valentine's Day!
@10 I hope you get some.. chocolates Mrs Crackpot.
Feb 14th, 2012 - 12:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0@whats your fantasy for valentines day marcus - the old ugly dog next door? Or getting past puberty? ;-))
Feb 14th, 2012 - 01:41 am - Link - Report abuse 09 Marcos Alejandro
Feb 14th, 2012 - 01:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0Here is a film all the nationalist children of Argentina should watch. It should be compulsory education in Argentine schools to learn about their country recent history, instead of teaching lies about the Falkland Islands (the imaginary Malvinas - which Argentina has NEVER had sovereignty over).
That something like this was allowed to happen is a crime against humanity, 50,000-100,000 raped, tortured, mutilated, murdered and disappeared (Borges). Unborn babies ripped out of their mothers wombs, young children taken from their parents, who were murdered by the heroic Argentine military.
Anyone of you born in the 70's? I hope your lucky enough to know who your real parents are...
The Official Story / La historia official
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7LF5II0wIY
It's a film everyone should watch. Feel shame because the specter of fascism still grips Argentina and as Martino Moreno said “If publishing the truth is forbidden, then lies, ignorance and poverty will follow”.
Argentina's history is still being written by Moreno's assassins.
TWIMC
Feb 14th, 2012 - 05:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0The article says:
“The individuals expressed a wish to return to their vessel, rather than be repatriated to their home country.”
Or, in other words....:
Get back to that ship you gook or we will kick your sorry ass all the way to Vietnam.....
This is not the first time this happens in Malvinas, nor it will be the last....
Some of those ships are veritable prisons and everybody in the South Atlantic knows it......
That goes to show how important the respect for “human rights” are for the Kelpers......
That goes to show how important the respect for “human rights” are for the Kelpers......
Feb 14th, 2012 - 09:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0And of course the argies lead the way in human rights in the work place
ARGENTINA: Clothing sweatshops “on the rise”
Author: Ivan Castano Freeman | 8 July 2011
http://www.just-style.com/news/clothing-sweatshops-on-the-rise_id111558.aspx
Argentina: Three children rescued from clandestine sweat shop assembling unauthorized Disney and Barbie items
http://www.just-style.com/news/clothing-sweatshops-on-the-rise_id111558.aspx
I somehow think Argentinian Human-rights is Oxymoron at best, and a contradiction in terms at worst.
Feb 14th, 2012 - 10:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0TWIMC
Feb 14th, 2012 - 06:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Can´t see any comments from any Squatters........
Apparently those sevenVietnamese men aren´t even worth a comment....
That goes to show how important the respect for “human rights” is for the Kelpers......
Feb 14th, 2012 - 07:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Are you listening, CFK .
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@1 Greekyoghurt
Feb 14th, 2012 - 08:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They have an ethnic minority already, there's a small number of Argentines living on the Islands.
To Isolde, Monty96, WestisBest, Islander1, Stillakelper and so many others...........
Feb 15th, 2012 - 05:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0Nice show you Squatters put up early Sunday morning.
All able man up and searching for the seven Vietnamese ”fugitives”.
Even the Royal Navy and the Prince’s yellow SAR helicopter were involved.
It certainly gives a new meaning to the acronym SAR: “Search and Restrain”
Guess it was necessary to show all the other “Potential Refugees” on those Jiggers that they don’t stand a chance of escaping their destiny on Squatter Island.
You haven’t disappointed me.
You have (again) showed what you Kelpers really stand for…….
@20 Nah think, they were just getting some practice in for when you and the rest of the argentine rowing boat fleet try to invade again.
Feb 15th, 2012 - 09:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0Anyway, at least we let them go and didn't throw them out of an airplane mid flight.
Hypocrite!
20 Think
Feb 15th, 2012 - 01:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You're talking like a turnip.
Of course everyone was looking for them. People die jumping off ships, and they also die walking around wet and cold.
I would have been out there looking myself if I could, but had to make do with sending clothes.
What do you imagine would have happened to these men if no-one had looked for them?
If you have any suggestions for how to legislate against poor conditions on boats on the high seas, I'd be very happy to hear them. The Attorney General's chambers here hasn't been able to come up with anything, despite looking several times. You might well be an expert though.
In this case, the 'refugees' were offered a flight home and didn't want it.
Ah, but think of the publicity if and argie boat/crew had found them,
Feb 15th, 2012 - 06:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The reply may have been
Argentina saves seven crew members, in argentine territory,
Sean Penn want to make film of dramatic rescue of argentine islands,
Sadly it was not to be,
All they could do, was sit , watch, then complain.
Just a rescue thought .
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(22) Not an eye dry, Monty96……
Feb 15th, 2012 - 08:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What a “truly generous” people you are……
I’m positive those seven Vietnamese will, as long as they live, never forget the friendly people of Stanley.
You say:
“If you have any suggestions for how to legislate against poor conditions on boats on the high seas, I'd be very happy to hear them. The Attorney General's chambers here hasn't been able to come up with anything, despite looking several times. You might well be an expert though.”
I say:
No need to be a ”Rocket Expert”.......
1) Stanley Harbor is NOT the ”High Seas”.
2) If you had any intention to ”Legislate” against this virtual”Slavery of the Seas” you would simply stop welcoming those Prison Ships and stop selling fishing licenses to them.
3) But you won’t…… It’s a lot of money in it.
Surely, in the next Public Meeting, somebody will mention those ugly ships …........... Just to complain, again. about their strong floodlights that ruin the peaceful skyline of Stanley.
24 Think
Feb 16th, 2012 - 11:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0Whatever these boats do to mistreat their people, it doesn't happen in Stnaley Harbour, and it doesn't happen in FI waters when a fisheries observer is aboard.
It's understood that these boats are rough- when I was part of this world, female observers didn't get put on them. Don't know if this is still the case.
This is some way short of having enough evidence to do something in a legal sense.
Do any of these boats fish in Argentine waters?
Perhaps they just do it illegally, because you can't be bothered or are too incompetent to catch them.
Or do you turn a blind eye on purpose as part of your policy of deliberate over- fishing and destruction of joint fish stocks? That would make sense- get someone else to do your dirty work for you.
(25) Monty 96
Feb 16th, 2012 - 05:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You know as well as I do that many of those boats, specially the Chinese and Vietnamese ones are force-crewed with young people convicted for implausible small felonies, shanghaied or even sold.
That’s why the FIG(leaf) doesn’t allow those crews to get off the ships.
You want the easy money the slave ships bring……… but not the problems.
Who is ”turning the blind eye” here?
I know there are people in the Island with intact values.
I hope they can make their voices heard………....................................
Well that's a fairly big admission from you.
Feb 16th, 2012 - 07:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What are you basing that on exactly? I thought we were all pirates and squatters?
For what it's worth, a lot of people are not very happy with conditions on these boats, or the fact that we benefit from them. There is always an outcry whenever someone is desperate enough to jump off a ship, and this time has been no different.
However, we are not inclined to be lectured by the likes of you about this. You don't know what people think, and you don't seem to have any suggestions for how to make things better. It's easy to be pompous and preachy about something that doesn't concern you and about which you have nothing constructive to add.
(27) Monty 96
Feb 16th, 2012 - 09:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That's a fairly big admission from you too....
Hope you are one of the “not very happy” ones....
Have a nice evening.
28 Think
Feb 17th, 2012 - 01:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0I don't need you to tell me what to think. What are you, my dad or something?
lol...you have a nice evening too.
(29) Monty96
Feb 17th, 2012 - 06:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Extremely improbable but not entirely impossible….............. ;-)
Age?
Mother’s maiden name?
Blood type?
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