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Falklands’ Defence Force marks 30th anniversary of Argentine invasion
The Falkland Islands marked on Sunday the start of the South Atlantic conflict thirty years ago with a ceremony honouring local Defence Force members who were on duty the night of 01 April 1982 when the Argentine invasion. Read full article
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Apr 02nd, 2012 - 03:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0Liberation Monument, need anyone say more?...............
Apr 02nd, 2012 - 04:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0I can say ... this is about as morally palatable as Germany celebrating the liberation of Poland in 1939.
Apr 02nd, 2012 - 05:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0However, it is a good measure to shows you what sort of animals we're dealing with here.
Bunch of clowns!
Apr 02nd, 2012 - 06:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0Stop talking about yourself Jorge. You should refer to yourselves as Surrender Monkies as that is what you really are.
Apr 02nd, 2012 - 07:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0Can I just say I didn't mean to post comment 3. It was supposed to be on another article.
Apr 02nd, 2012 - 08:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0However, they shouldn't be commemorating this date, they should be commemorating the 14th June, when they were liberated from the evil alien power.
Very dignified.
Apr 02nd, 2012 - 10:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0Tigre, will you be giving Argentina back to the family of the first person born in Argentina? Considering the vast majority of Argentines don't have a drop of native south american blood running in their veins, I doubt that will be you...
Apr 02nd, 2012 - 11:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0@4
Apr 02nd, 2012 - 12:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It they are a bunch of clowns, what does that make you?
4 JORGE1982
Apr 02nd, 2012 - 01:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0How would you like to be repeatedly smacked in the face, have your head ripped off and then kicked up your backside?
Have respect for people who fought for their islands or be prepared to be torn apart and exposed as the vile piece of coward fascist garbage you and all your type are.
Argentine Timeline =
1816: United Provinces officially declared their independence from Spain.
1853 United Provinces become Argentine republic after adopting a legal constitution.
1859 Buenos Aires refused to become part of the country of Argentina and set up their own independent state a civil war broke out (one of many in Argentine history) that lasted 3 years.
1875 Terra del Fuego the province that administers an imaginary Malvinas Islands supposedly discovered by Argentine before the country existed became part of Argentina. The imaginary Malvinas Islands are a propaganda creation of the Argentine government who wishes to control the Southern Cone by force if necessary.
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Apr 02nd, 2012 - 01:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0When is Argentina being liberated from the colonialists and the land being returned to the first nations people?
Apr 02nd, 2012 - 01:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The Argentinians keep discussing it, but they never actually do it. They just focus on someone elses territory, rather than putting it into practice in Argentina first.
@ 6 Greek Yoghurt
Apr 02nd, 2012 - 01:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In the Falklands we remember but do not formally commemorate 2 April. The FIDF parade was a one off for the 30th anniversary to commemorate its call to arms.
Getting back to the point.
Apr 02nd, 2012 - 02:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0How nice to see the honourable people of the Falklands (there are no Malvinas) remembering their fallen comrades with the respect they deserve.
Contrast this with the rabble in Ushuaia that will be subjected to the maniacal ravings of the Mad Bitch herself.
as argentine, April 2 is a really sad day for me. Sad because all those (argentines and british) fallen in that crazy adventure of the Argentine government in attacking the islands. Also sad because I still see, 30 years later, Argentina still continue acting in the same way. I hope the day when my country changes accepting Falklands for what it really is, a free and peaceful territory with right to self determination.
Apr 02nd, 2012 - 03:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0long live democracy , freedom , and the british,
Apr 02nd, 2012 - 05:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 011 tigre
meow
Argentina you've gone to HELL - stay there.
Apr 02nd, 2012 - 05:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Jo
and take your deluded bloggers with you,
Apr 02nd, 2012 - 06:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0they could do with something hot,
15 Rob:
Apr 03rd, 2012 - 04:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0That makes two of us, that's a fairly good start.
Perhaps more Argentines will join us in trying to make our poor country rejoin the real world and leave this KK nightmare behind us.
We can only hope, God save Argentina, He's the only one who can.
Please join -
Apr 04th, 2012 - 03:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Keep the Falklands British -
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Keep-the-Falklands-British/123151384435619?sk=wall&filter=1
I am surprised to see this topic has so much traction.... I always assumed the Argies were the fanatical ones here, but seeing all you Brits up in arms defending a cause this cause makes me double think about how different in reality these two nations are as they approach an issue that clearly has solution via negotiations. The islands are being administered by their own people... what else is there to talk about... or is it actually that England is indeed trying to claim the islands as part of their own territory... For us, in the rest of the world, the Argentinian and Falklanders' position is clear, they will always claim the island for them, but what's England position in this?
Apr 04th, 2012 - 03:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I'd be more concern about losing my country's AAA than about 3000 people becoming an independent nation on the other side of the world...
21 NYC_2World
Apr 04th, 2012 - 06:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I take it you are an American then?
Italian born, living in America for many years now....
Apr 04th, 2012 - 11:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 023 NYC_2World
Apr 05th, 2012 - 01:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You appear not to understand the situation very well between the Falklands (there are no Malvinas) and the colonial rantings of Argentina.
To have negotiations involve two or more parties WANTING to negotiate. Negotiation involves give and take.
How do you negotiate with a country who has recently amended the constitution to claim the Malvinas (wherever they are) to be their property with NO negotiation regarding sovereignty for the people who live there now. Please be advised that many of the Falklanders have been there for many generations, some of them NINE generations whereas the Argentines were not even a country when all this nonsense they are kicking up was said to be 'their' history.
Many of the present population of Argentina are first generation, including many of the government.
Arturo Puricelli, the 'Defence' Minister, of Italian descent is himself a first generation Argentino. Who are these people to decide what the Falklanders can or cannot do?
Although you are not American, I am sure you have heard of the Alamo.
This used to belong to the Mexicans (Mexican Texas) until the early Americans living in MT decided they wanted it and started to assert themselves: sounds just like the Argentinos doesn't it?
The Mexicans saw things differently and after one or two false starts Santa Anna attacked and defeated the somewhat overly confident rag-taggle 'Pirates' who were defending the Alamo. He executed virtually all the people left alive in the fort.
The subsequent rage felt by other Americans had the predictable result of Santa Annas forces being defeated at the Battle of San Jacinto – 21st April 1836. Santa Anna was forced to sign away Mexican Texas.
Now, the question is should America be forced to give back all the lands of Mexico that they clearly took by force from the indiginous people?
Perhaps you understand now why sovereignty can ONLY be decided by the Falklanders themselves. The UKs position is clear on this.
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