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Argentina presents official protest to UK over Malvinas cemetery vandalism
The Argentine foreign ministry confirmed in a release that it had delivered an official protest to the United Kingdom repudiating “the profanation of the monument” in Darwin, Falkland Islands, to the memory of the Argentine combatants killed during the 1982 Malvinas war. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesIt IS a disgrace that the shrine was attacked
Aug 02nd, 2012 - 06:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0It IS a disgrace that the RG gov. use this event to go on about the sov. of the islands
Whoever committed this act should be found and punished to the fullest extent the law allows. To quote the statement above by the FCO.
Aug 02nd, 2012 - 07:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0“All war memorials should be treated with the deepest respect.” Please note the word ”all”.
As the Argentine government are clearly against desecrating memorials, I wonder when they will be bringing that hockey player to justice for desecrating the British World War One memorial when he was abusing the trust of the Falklands people by pretending to be on the island to run in a good will event hosted by the Falklands government?
Also, what has this got to do with UN Resolutions???
If it was an islander (not sure as the CFK government have immorally used their war dead as a political tool before, so I wouldn't put it past them to stage this event) that was pissed off and took a hammer to the glass, surely it is the Argentine government sponsored blockade and blatant public hostility that is causing the bad feelings to boil over.
I still believe the purpose was for the benefit of Argentina. The hole created was big enough to reach the doll but it was left untouched. Odd that.
Aug 02nd, 2012 - 08:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0@1 Perfectly put. I predict that tomorrow the Argentine foreign ministry will issue a statement saying “yesterday we presented a demand to the UK government that they apologise for the vandalism of the Argentine cemetery...yada yada yada”. The following day we will get “the Argentine government has informed the IRC” and following that we will get “the Argentine government has lodged a protest with the security council of the UN”. Poor Ban Ki Moon...as if he didn't have enough on his plate with potential genocide in Syria, nuclear arms races in the Middle East, the transition of Myanmar to democracy, an outbreak of ebola in Uganda and piracy off Somalia he now is being asked to investigate a glass door vandalised by some muppet with a hammer.
Aug 02nd, 2012 - 08:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0@2 I think you are understanding the cause rather than excusing the action if it was an islander. It goes without saying that really there is no excuse for vandalising any memorial whoever it was.
@3 It is all a bit strange...lets hope the police get to the bottom of it.
Last note...before Conqueror comes up with some trip inspired theory as to “this being Argentine special forces launching rubber dingies off a submarine in the dead of night and that is why the UK should launch a nuclear strike against BA”, can I just pre-emptively:
i) disown his obnoxious ravings as being extraordinarily un-British;
ii) suggest he either keeps taking the pills the doctor prescribed or go and see his doctor;
iii) apologise to any normal Argentine offended by his tripe: unfortunately we have a few people of the same deranged mindset of the mask wearing flag burning extremists you have to put up with on your streets.
This still news?
Aug 02nd, 2012 - 09:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0Am surprised that Mercopress has so far, to the best of my knowledge, failed to mention that it was actually an Argentine tourist that discovered the vandalism. So the false flag theory is a possibility.
Aug 02nd, 2012 - 09:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0I would reject conquerors ramblings about special force on the basis that it would be unneccessary and probably beyond their capabilities.
Aug 02nd, 2012 - 09:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0There are people on the islands that could have done this at the behest of Argentina.
Oh dear. Overeacting again as well as sending the 'protest' to the wrong address.
Aug 02nd, 2012 - 09:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0Fail.
@6 maybe the 'tourist' was the one that did it.......... what a ratbag tribe....
Aug 02nd, 2012 - 10:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0The investigation by the Falklands authorities is already flawed as their juristiction does not reach Argentina.....
Aug 02nd, 2012 - 10:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0A sad act of vandalism and an equally sad overreaction from Argentina used for political purposes.
Aug 02nd, 2012 - 10:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0OMFG!!, are they still crying about this??. “IT WAS A PANE OF GLASS” nothing else was damaged, grow up for heavens sake. What a bunch of cry-babies. Seriously, RGs have so many emotional hang-ups it goes beyond belief.
Aug 02nd, 2012 - 11:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0@9 - Well he/she will no doubt be subject to the investigation as a suspect.
Aug 02nd, 2012 - 11:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0@10 - It won't be flawed if they catch them before they go back to Argentina or if it was an islander as they will be subject to the falkland islands legal jurisdiction.
Not only that, Argentina will look a joke if the evidence turns out to show it was an Argentine tourist that did it, and Argentina failed to bring them to justice themselves.
@7 Then it's a pity that you don't understand “capabilities”. Answer these questions, for yourself. 1. Does argieland have submarines? 2. “special forces”? 3. rubber dinghies? 4. Is the cemetery close to the sea? 5. How far would an Islander or a member of British forces have to travel to reach the cemetery? 6. Could that travel be performed at night without a vehicle? 7. Would a vehicle be “noticed”? 8. What is the likelihood of an Islander (having had the item on British Falklands soil for 30 years) or a member of British forces (with military equipment available) do no more than attempt to break the glass? There's a simple test known as Occam's Razor. For any event, pick the simplest explanation. And the simplest explanation is that it's an argie put-up job. How quickly were they ready to rush out their “public statement”? How quickly were they ready to rush off to the UN? It is an “event” totally within the argie character. And, moreover, words have been used like “desecration” and “sacrilege”. Expecting the world to react in horror. But it didn't. Remember, in '82, argies painting red crosses on anything and everything? Remember they even painted red crosses on a vessel being used as a troop transport? It's a simple enough situation. If an argie speaks it, prints it, writes it, publishes it, it's a lie.
Aug 02nd, 2012 - 12:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Let's stop kidding ourselves and face the truth. At least for ourselves. Argies have no real concept of honesty, honour, truth or anything of that nature. Any “normal” bunch of people could have sat down, looked at “real” evidence, chosen not to “brainwash” their kids with compulsory lectures and accepted “real” truth. They want “negotiations”, they say. About what? Either the Islands belong to Britain and the Falklanders or they don't. It doesn't require “negotiation”. The Islands legally belong to Britain and the Falklanders. That's all there is to it. Argies LOST a war but they still don't accept it. They will have to be FORCED to accept it.
I agree it's suspicious but there was simply no need to involve hundreds of military personnel to do it. Imagine the consequences if they'd been caught.
Aug 02nd, 2012 - 12:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina does realize, does it not, that the cemetery is there on the sufferance of the Falkland Islands and if they want it removed they can do so any time they wish? Is it not also true that the cemetery is on land freely donated by a local farmer?
Aug 02nd, 2012 - 01:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0MLA Sawle's note does not presume the damage to be “vandalism”, but that the police are “investigating what appears to be an act of vandalism”:
Aug 02nd, 2012 - 01:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0News
Argentine Cemetery
August 1st, 2012
We have been made aware of damage that has been done to the Argentine cemetery at Darwin. From what we have been told this appears to be damage to a glass screen. We understand the police are investigating what appears to be an act of vandalism. Clearly we condemn any action of this sort and very much regret that this might have happened – anyone who knows anything about the cause of the damage should contact the police. The Families Commission has been informed and is working on the arrangements for repair.
Hon. Dick Sawle
Member of the Legislative Assembly
http://www.falklands.gov.fk/news/
@15 Do you think Conk'll ever admit that buying a hammer and driving to the cemetery one day when nobody else was there “may” be simpler, cheaper and lower risk than involving a submarine, hundreds of military personnel, dingies and the inevitable fumbling in the dark required?
Aug 02nd, 2012 - 01:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Though...here's a thought...Conk has known to be a little angry on the odd occasion...and he has a personal issue with all things Argentine...and he isn't shy about his dislike of the cemetery.
Conk...it wasn't you was it?
If it was the false trail you'r trying to lay is the least convincing ever.
(just to be clear 1...I'm making fun of Conk: vandalising a memorial isn't remotely funny and has to be condemned, fingers crossed that the culprits are caught asap whoever they are)
(just to be clear 2...actually quite well done Conk: you didn't actually describe Argentinians as sub-human which is making progress for you, nor did you call for an act of indiscriminate genocide or further cemetery desecration. Keep taking the tablets and we'll soon have you discriminating between obnoxious Kirchnerite politicians using the Falklands for their own gain/to hide their own incompetence (and their sycophants/masked thugs) and normal Argentinians who are usually perfectly nice people and often surprised that the lessons they learnt in school could be taught in a different way)
I would bin their letter until the call the islands by their real name!
Aug 02nd, 2012 - 01:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The plausibility that it was Argentine SF is daft at best, why spend thousands to go and conduct an amphibious op to smash a pain of glass with a hammer, when all you just do is if you were going to conduct state sponsored glass smashing, is just pay a tourist going to the islands a few extra? Pretty daft mate
Aug 02nd, 2012 - 01:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The Argie cemetery is right on the main road from Stanley and Mt Pleasent to the Camp, and its less that 5 miles away from Goose Green and Darwin settlements and given the frequency of drink driving from Stanley and Mt Pleasant to the Camp its a no brainer.
The eejit whoever did it, just did it to make a point, you don't need to go and play football with a patron saints head to make one, its like smashing a neighbours window that you don't particularly like, you don't need to loot their house and play football with Grandma Murphy's ashes do you?
The Argies are always going to be quick to release statements on any thing in the Falklands given the obsessive and deranged amount of scrutiny and attention they give to the islands.
@19 - Thorpeman
Aug 02nd, 2012 - 02:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I'd go one better and forward the letter to the Maldives, as this is the place they obviously mean.
But the UK won't. We will forward it to the FIG.
Personally the next time any Argentine says or does anything anti-British we should protest it to everyone in the world...Nah we have too much class and respect for ourselves to do that.
Poor Argentina, fancy being stuck with a government that doesn't understand how to do things diplomatically.
Vandals grow and run amok everywhere.
Aug 02nd, 2012 - 02:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0While this was not a good sign to us Argentines, I feel it should not be regarded as islander's hostility towards our country but most probably the individual act of one, unstable, person.
The current shortage of local policemen may contribute, in my view, to a reduced vigilance.
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I wasn't able to connect to Mercopress yesterday. Was it hacked or undergoing 'service'?
@22 Sadly this type of act happens throughout the world. Let's all hope together that they catch the culprit(s) and that there is no repeat.
Aug 02nd, 2012 - 02:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0On Mercopress - it was up all day yesterday - a local problem at your end?
Team GB has just won a Gold medal for shooting.
Aug 02nd, 2012 - 03:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Argie- I f you and yours wish to pay for a 24hr securuity guard over an isolated place with no electricity a mile off a road that only averages one vehicle an hour if that in daylight in winter - be prepared to dig deep in your pocket!
Aug 02nd, 2012 - 03:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Without doubt a malicous act by an idiot - but wether that idiot was an Islander-an Argentine- or from elsewhere we will probabaly never know.
@15 “hundreds of military personnel”. Are you having a laugh? The submarine crew would be between 26 and 36 depending on the type of sub selected. 4 “special forces”. Total: between 30 and 40. “hundreds”. Ahahahah!
Aug 02nd, 2012 - 04:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@18 Sorry to disappoint. I had to better things to do than travelling 8,000 miles to try to smash a pane of glass. And another 8,000 miles back. Mind you, let me know about a possible argie invasion of the Falklands and promise me an assault rifle and unlimited ammunition...........
But to take up your other point. What are “normal Argentinians”? Are these the ones that fill the plazas and streets celebrating the invasion of the Falklands with no questions about how many Falklanders might have been injured or killed? Are they the ones that turn up to CFK's warmongering rallies? (And because she hasn't mentioned war doesn't mean anything). Are they the ones that happily send their kids off to attend the compulsory Falklands brainwashing sessions? Now here's some simple questions for you to ask yourself. Have you noticed ANYTHING, anything at all, that suggests that argieland is ready to accept the status quo? Do you see argieland being satisfied with anything other than sovereignty, ownership and occupation? And what percentage of argies would NOT support an adventure to “recover” the Falklands? Can you bring all your brainpower to bear and answer these questions believably?
@20 Let's ask YOU a simple question. With around 80 British troops on the Islands, would YOU have found it necessary to despatch 4 naval task groups and 66,000 troops for an invasion? Try for some credibility. And then review your comment!
@18 Richfe (#) Aug 02nd, 2012 - 01:13 pm
Aug 02nd, 2012 - 04:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Conk is a daft old Walt. He doesn't know any better.
@25 They could contract G4S to do it... LOL
Aug 02nd, 2012 - 04:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But seriously, nothing to see here folks...move along please!
This was an inexcuseable act, whoever did it. IF it was one of us I hope the cops throw the book at him or indeed whoever did it.
Aug 02nd, 2012 - 04:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It is also very distasteful for Her Across The Water to use this as a political ploy to further her ridiculous claims.
The plan to exhume the unknown bodies for identification would be an excellent opportunity to return them to their homeland where they belong among their loved ones instead of in hostile territory where their brutal leaders sent them to die in a hopeless cause.
@26 Conk...I suspect you're right. Idlehands is probably laughing. Keep on the tablets though, you're making progress. Just watch the “Ahahahah!”s. It makes you read a little like a malvinista.
Aug 02nd, 2012 - 05:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@27 Evenin' FFF. At least he's been a bit less offensive today. I'm not sure I'd trust him with a firearm of any kind...or even scissors...but I'm coming to the opinion that he may be trusted with a Pritt Stick.
( 25) Islander1
Aug 02nd, 2012 - 06:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You say:
“... an isolated place with no electricity a mile off a road that only averages one vehicle an hour if that in daylight in winter....”
I say:
Well......
In an Island with less than 3.000 squatters and 2.000 vehicles...... that should simplify the local coppers investigation of that ”smashed piece of glass...
Don't you think?
- be prepared to dig deep in your pocket!
Without doubt a malicous act by an idiot - but wether that idiot was an Islander-an Argentine- or from elsewhere we will probabaly never know.
So an Argentine tourist 'discovered' this? Hmmm... Funny nothing like this has happened on the Falkland Islands since the Argentine invasion more then 30 years ago, in fact nothing like this has happened ever. Just saying...
Aug 02nd, 2012 - 06:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@31
Aug 02nd, 2012 - 06:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“In an Island with less than 3.000 squatters”
Heh heh, no my friend, the last squatters on the Falklands Islands returned home in 1982.
There are no squatters there now, using people's bedrooms as latrines like many of the Argentine soldiers did in 1982 .
I quote:
Aug 02nd, 2012 - 06:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“We will not rest until this repugnant act of sacrilege is clarified”.
The broken pane of glass at the Argentine Cemetery is sounding more and more like a Monty Python sketch!
Yes it's wrong, yes we utterly condemn it, regardless of who did it but lets face it - Cui Bono? Which nation is using it for POLITICAL PURPOSES and the RATCHETING UP of TENSIONS, after their act of sacrilege - exercising on a British War Memorial backfired. Is this their method of getting back at us? It looks like it!
British and Commonwealth War Cemeteries all over the world are regularly vandalised - we are talking tens of thousands of graves and we're not talking about a broken window, we talking about rows and rows of grave stones smashed and graves dug up and desecrated. There is no excuse for it but that should put this into perspective.
We should remember that the Argentine War Cemetery is only in the Falklands for political reasons, the Argentine government refused to repatriate their dead. Many islanders do not want the cemetery on the islands for what it represents and reminds them of, but they respect it and the Argentine dead all the same, regularly laying flowers and tending graves.”
maybe it was the hand of god.. or the doll tryed to make a break for it... maybe the freezing conditions cracked the glass...an earth tremor?... a malicious penguin with a grudge... a gnarley bunch of OAP ramblers...or heres a good one Olympics is on so Argentina sends a visitor to damage the shrine and send pictures to La Nacion and make a political issue from it . pack the bodies up and burial at sea end of issues. Now for a cuppa!
Aug 02nd, 2012 - 07:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 031 Think
Aug 02nd, 2012 - 07:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oh Think, think!! The finger of blame is pointing very firmly at Argentina on this one I afraid.
On the one hand you have an Argentine cemetary on the Falkland Islands, that has not had any vandalism in the passed 30 years. and you have the falkland Islanders, who just want to live their lives in peace.
Then, on the other hand, you have the Argentine's who booby trap schools, use peoples houses as toilets, film promotions on war memorials, ignore UN resolutions, attack other peoples embassies, plant bombs, get into land squabbles with their Neighbours.............
and you have to ask who vandalised the cemetary?
I say to you look no further than B.A
.........Or was it you?
The memorial is at a remote place, so the people most likely to go there and notice the damsage are Argentine. Whatever or whoever the cause- and assuming it was the result of human agency- it seems to be nasty but ineffective. The best policy is for the FIG to say 'We're sorry and we'll try to find out how it happened and stop anything like it happening again. Unfortunately there are other things that matter more for us to worry about. Surely you don't blame us for the activities of our more foolish citizens, any more than we blame you for what your more deranged followers do and say? '
Aug 02nd, 2012 - 07:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 036 toooldtodieyoung. I am going for THINK as the vandal its the evil nasty thing that THINK would do. THINK just oozes evil I think that THINK was the tourist who broke that glass, yes the more I think about it, it was THINK
Aug 02nd, 2012 - 07:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Can any of the posters from Argentina possibly give any update as to the progress of the investigation and prosecution of those rioters who attacked and caused serious damage at the British Embassy, which is serious violation in the context of diplomatic relations? Have the Argentine Police carried out an impartial independant investigation? Have they referred the matter to the IRC & UN to ensure transparancy in this matter ? No, ? Thought not .
Aug 02nd, 2012 - 08:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@38
Aug 02nd, 2012 - 08:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That's just a stupid comment
Think - no idea about “squatters” but out of our population of cerca 3500 and the 1200 or so at MPA you can at least discount the few hundred that reside on the West Falklands and the other 100 or 200 away on winter holidays.And without a doubt all the British services personnel.
Aug 02nd, 2012 - 08:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As we dont have your type of Police Stae road blocks etc the RFIP will have little idea who was or was not driving along that road that week whenever!
Wont be us whose pockets get hit? Agree with you though that whoever did it whatever their nationality is a despicable sod.
Repairs will be paid for by the cemetery owners - or the culprit if found.
Interested to hear your comments on No 36?
So... they reckon an RG tourist reported it...one assumes he went out there by taxi or hire car....easy to follow that up..... so what time of day did he notice the damage....? Why didn't the previous visitor report it?...once again easy enough to establish what time previous RGs were out there.... so if it was on the same day then it was either done by RG 'A' or RG 'B' .... simple....
Aug 02nd, 2012 - 10:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I note that majority world opinion is that it was an RG job..... another KFC boomerang......
Did the Argies make this much fuss when the Jewish cemetery was damaged in Argentina
Aug 03rd, 2012 - 12:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0@41 'As we dont have your type of Police State road blocks etc '
Aug 03rd, 2012 - 03:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0.....nor the high level of security that the RGs maintain at the Falklands memorial in BA.... did they ever catch anyone responsible for that stabbing?
This is the funniest story on Mercopress:
Aug 03rd, 2012 - 07:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0Somebody has broken a piece of glass....and the Argies want to make it a major international incident.
30 years ago Argentina cost the lives of these people, sending them to their death for their own selfish dogma, they showed contempt for them then, and are doing it now using them as pawns in a strange diplomatic game.
For Gods sake, show some honour you disgraceful scum. Let these poor people rest in peace.
It appears that there is no depths this Argie government won't stoop.
Argentine visitor.
Aug 03rd, 2012 - 08:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0He had:-
1) the means,
2) the motive,
3) the opportunity.
Standard Police work.
Let's see, the Argentine Government has not made this sort of fuss over:
Aug 03rd, 2012 - 01:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 01) The deaths of 52 and injury of 700 people at Once railway station!
2) The deaths of 85 and injury of several hundred at the AMIA bombing!
This means that in Kretina's dream world, a piece of glass is more important than 137 human beings!!!!
Can everyone see How BP treats other nations land and water?? Brits go around the world causing death, pollution and destrictions of natural resources, theft of capital and violation of human rights against other ethnic groups, lets send all this pirates home running or more in a body bag.
Aug 03rd, 2012 - 03:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Very interesting to listen to Dick Swale talking on 5live about the incident. Certainly very odd that only the glass was damaged and not the Madonna. Surely any Vandal worth their salt will make more of an effort to damage the artifacts in the hole in the wall.
Aug 03rd, 2012 - 03:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Conspiracy theories are already appearing on the net. My feeling along with many is that it was an inside job.
Does anyone know if Fernando Zylberberg was in the FI when this happened?
Aug 03rd, 2012 - 03:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0He was furious at not making the Olympic team, and has a history of this kind of thing.
”(Photo: La Nacion)”
Aug 03rd, 2012 - 04:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Strange how La Nation & Mercopress obtained the photograph so quickly.
31 Think- You really are a prat.
48 Pirat-Hunter- You are an even bigger prat.
Has anyone considered an act of nature, I have seen the wind shift some fair heavy objects in them there Islands on windy days (thats most days).
Just a thought
2nd go, lost the lot before! grrrrr
Aug 04th, 2012 - 08:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0@47Simon68,
As you would know,
lts because those incidents took place in Argentina & not the Falklands.
She cannot make international mileage from them.
Also with the Falkland case, she can get domestic sympathy.
There would be no domestic sympathy, in fact public anger about the deaths in Argentina.
What a devious, unscrupulous, ruthless little toad, she is!
20......?!? Task force feck the what you on about Laddie?
Aug 04th, 2012 - 08:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0I'm merly pointing out the absurdity of your theory that the Argies despatched a SF group via a submarine to go and smash a pain of glass at a cemetery in order to provoke a diplomatic incident? Even you can see that? Why risk being caught, when all you can do is pay a tourist to the islands a few extra bob to do the dirty, IF IT was an agent provacteur, which I highly doubt.
Many years back when I worked for the National Trust Scotland at Culloden, we had the grave of British soldiers vandalised, immediately blame fell on the Nats, however they all said it was a Unionist agent provacteur as a nationalist could never do that, turned out we were both wrong to an extent and it was a drunk SNP activist wondering the moor at 4 am after the local Nat shin dig.
The Argies will make political capital out of anything, simple as that.....
#2 Two wrongs don't make a right in any case, but theres a big difference between taking excercises on the steps which could be inoffensive in a non-British culture and breaking the glass which is agressive in any culture
Aug 04th, 2012 - 04:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#4&18 Apart from your reference to Kirchnerite politicians, brilliant comments, you've really nailed Conk who as you say comes across profoundly un-British
#47 Transport minister sacked after Once, AMIA still a running sore with Iran (especially since Nestor took over) so you're just wrong
#54BK
Aug 04th, 2012 - 10:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0From where do you get all your detailed information on Argentinian politics
I'm just curious. You profess to know what appear to be obscure points in the day to day workings of Argentinian politics and foreign affairs.
If you are a British citizen (?) then why are you so pro Argentinian by supporting every aspect of their foreign policy and by by default anti -British ? Venezuela and Cuba also seem to be favoured by you as bastions of rectitude.
Chile and Uruguay are not particularly favoured if they dare to have an opinion which may differ from Argentina, and Paraguay seem to be beyond the pale.
You are entitled to your opinion as anyone else who posts here but where did this burning enthusiasm for Argentina come from ?
No one I know gives a monkeys for Argentina and are neither for nor against it as a country.
If you are from the UK, give me the name of the town, the area and the school you attended - this will be some proof that you are in fact not a closet Argentinian. Nothing more detailed than this would be necessary.
I have previously given plenty of information about myself. How about you ?
55 Clyde15 (#)
Aug 05th, 2012 - 03:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Of course BK is Argentine, there ain't no such animal as a British Kirchnerist!!!!!
54 British_Kirchnerist : Breaking the glass cover but not damaging the actual symbolic religious relic just a centimetre behind it doesn't seem to be an act of outright, overt aggression.
Aug 05th, 2012 - 07:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 055 BK is a troll he ain't british at all, probably in the same vain as O'gara and a supposedly Dutch poster basically a sock puppet account by one of the users here...suspicion falls on More crap.
Aug 05th, 2012 - 10:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You can tell the sock puppet accounts quite easily by sentence structure, they usually make deliberate mistakes or deliberate differences in sentence construction in order to mask their real identity....
Take BK's sentences never puts a full stop at the end of anything, yet almost perfect punctuation before that...essentially deliberately trying to create the impression of a different user.
Tempest in a teapot. No actual graves were desecrated, just that fugly statue. The “Virgen de Luján” is not a sacred symbol for all Argies, just for Roman Catholic ones. The statue should'n have been there in the first place. If anything, its presence in the graveyard is an insult to the non-catholic soldiers that rest there.
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After thoroughly reading all the comments above, I came to the conclusion that there's no ground to file an international protest over the incident because i) not all Argies are papists, and ii) the islands are (tongue-in-cheek) an overseas Argentine province and it is the latter's government that has to replace the broken glass.
Aug 08th, 2012 - 06:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Ohhh, the alarm clock's been ringing.... Was it a dream then?
Cheers!
http://www.penguin-news.com/index.php?option=com_flexicontent&view=items&id=392:falklands-police-release-statement-on-investigation-into-argentine-cemetery-vandalism
Aug 10th, 2012 - 08:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Liars! Pirates! Squatters!
Why oh why would anybody break the glass and then place a carefully protected bible inside, with a note signed and dated.............. and then go and report it as some heinous crime committed by those terrible 'oh so anti Argentine' Falkland Islanders?
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