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Malvinas War families’ commission honours benefactor of Argentine memorial in Falklands
The Commission of Malvinas War Families paid homage to Argentine businessman Eduardo Eunerkian who has always been close to the organization and financed the construction of the Memorial at the Argentine cemetery in the Falkland Islands. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesAh, so it wasn't our of respect for the dead, it was just to push forward the political agenda regarding their sovereignty claim. Fair enough, anyone might get confused and mix the two subjects up but now it's nice and clear, it's just small willy syndrome at play again.
Nov 01st, 2012 - 06:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0Someone ought to explain to him that you can't recover something that never belonged to you, you can only try to steal it.
Nov 01st, 2012 - 07:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0Also those men didn't die in the defence of Argentine land, they died because the Argentine government tried to steal someone else's land, murder the population and distract the general public from the mess it had made of the economy.
They died because the Argentine government refused to follow a legally binding resolution to remove the troops from the Falklands. They died because the Argentine government underestimated Britains determination to protect its people and territory.
Basically those men died because of the hubris and arrogance of the Argentine government.
It's nice that they're getting a memorial, but as always the Argentines don't know when to put politics aside and just remember their fallen.
On another note. Why has this been left up to a businessman to pay for this memorial? Why hasn't the Argentine government paid for it?
@2 An understanding of the forces at work here could be rapidly assimilated with a cursory glance at the bidding process for these “public works” projects.
Nov 01st, 2012 - 08:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0It's encouraging to hear that even a foetus in the womb is an avid malvinista!
Nov 01st, 2012 - 09:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0Bodes well for the future.
How low can you get, trying to make political capital out dead men who died for their country.
Nov 01st, 2012 - 09:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0'One day the Malvinas will be Argentine again' - pants of a comment - he was obviously referring to 1982 and that violent act of aggression. Nothing like that 'Great Malvinas Lie' to stir up the gullible Argentine people.
Nov 01st, 2012 - 10:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0How about financing a statue of Mrs Thatcher. After all she brought about the end of Argentine fascism. Or did she?
Although Thatcher could be credited with ending the dictatorship it would almost certainly have happened anyway because one of the main reasons the war happened was to rally the people around Galtieri.
Nov 01st, 2012 - 10:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0He went from loathed to loved back to loathed again in the space of three months. Quite an achievement.
@4
Nov 01st, 2012 - 10:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0Can't ask for a clearer statement of the fundamental irrationality of the Malvinistas creed.
Maybe it's achieved by Argentine men calling out “Las Malvinas Son Argentinas” as they fertilise their womenfolk?
Nov 01st, 2012 - 10:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0Lie back and think of the Malvinas!
Nov 01st, 2012 - 10:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0Sorry to disappoint you señor Eunerkian, but Argentina has never owned the Falklands & never will. lt is not Argentine land & never has been.
Nov 01st, 2012 - 10:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0But good day to you.
http://pol-check.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/falklands-have-always-been-argentine.html
Nov 01st, 2012 - 11:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0The comments by “gerardo” at the bottom are funny.
He tries to argue sensibly and then loses the plot at the end.
Eurnekian built the cenotaph in Darwin, so mothers of soldiers are thanking him for that, for the money to build it and to mantain it. And he explains why he did it.
Nov 01st, 2012 - 11:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0Remember to try to put back the bible also there, after your investigation of the Virgin broken glass. Are there news??? Or is it another smokescreen???
A political act by a political player. No amount of soft furry rhetoric will cover that up. Falkland Islanders agreed there should be a fitting cemetary to the war dead, Argentina did not want to pay for it, so a wily citizen spotted an opportunity.
Nov 01st, 2012 - 11:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0Pretty straight forward.
As if the British establishment never exploits the memory of war dead, usually in order to increase their numbers by staying in Afghanistan...
Nov 01st, 2012 - 11:24 am - Link - Report abuse 013 malen
Nov 01st, 2012 - 11:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0I still don't believe it was anyone but an Argentine that smashed the glass on the memorial. If it was an islander they would not have left the contents untouched as they would not have revered it.
I doubt the police will ever find the culprit whoever it was.
I do believe it was a british islander, in a very good investigation of facts, of interviews, of reading comments, of the first page of the bible, of the succession of acts, circunstances, and of interests of who doesnt support who and of time and of how you get there, of boredom, ......no doubts.
Nov 01st, 2012 - 11:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0You are an idiot malen. There are countless times that an Argentine tourist visiting the Falklands have left grafitti at battle sites and offended locals by being provactive, and we just get on with our lives. As soon as one thing is damaged at your memorial it is an international incident (a hugely minor one at that). Get a grip. These pathetic attempts to esculate this 'dispute' is tiresome and pointless.
Nov 01st, 2012 - 11:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0Its sure you think it was an argie, you took as proof an argie bible only.
Nov 01st, 2012 - 12:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And where are the results of the investigation?????????
Show us, please, the conclusions. Too much time for such an investigation and there must be lots of conclusions.
19 malen
Nov 01st, 2012 - 01:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It was petty vandalism - do you think special branch should be looking into it? I asume it's been repaired, there's no hard evidence as to who did it so move on.
“Too much time for such an investigation and there must be lots of conclusions.”
Nov 01st, 2012 - 01:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I take it from that comment that you have very little experience with real policing? ¬_¬
Some Argie who visited the graves on one of their late friends probably got filled with rage at the discovery of his or her friends head stone and took it out on the monument. It's not uncommon for people to get angry in these situations.
Nov 01st, 2012 - 02:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They will never truely know and they will never find out for definate; as is the case with most cases of petty vandalism. Move on, forgive and forget. It's just not worth it. Am I still ranting on about the head stones kicked down of our fallen heros of WW2 in North Africa, no I am not. A head stone can be replaced and a civil mind can get over the fact that everywhere we are faced with idiots in the world.
It's a disappointment for dead soldiers who paid with their lives to serve their country should not be allowed to rest in peace and be consistantly and constantly used as a political agenda.
“I want to honour the fallen in the defence of our (Malvinas) Islands and very especially you, the next of kin, the families who have dedicated thirty years of your lives not only to honour them, but to help keep alive that flame of sovereignty”, said Eurnekian.
Nov 01st, 2012 - 03:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What a wanker. (There are NO Malvinas). But the “flame of sovereignty” is alive. It's a British flame. And it will never die. As any future LatAm invader will find out.
@13 As a true “act of commemoration” landmines are being planted around every grave of argie war dead. Ostensibly, this is to protect them from vandals. Actually, it is to ensure that “families” can join their “loved ones”. “Investigation of a bit of broken glass”? Has to wait until more important cases have been dealt with. For instance, there has been a case of a missing bicycle. A case of overtaking on a blind bend. Someone accused of moving a shell on the seashore.
@15 A case of trying to free a people from a bunch of religious terrorists. But you may have a point. Argies are “religious” terrorists.
@17 Who would care? Why didn't they use a sledgehammer? I'm all in favour of removing anything argie from the Islands. Tossing it all in the sea. 400 miles offshore. Smashing anything too expensive to be moved. Ploughing the whole lot over. Erase the whole thing.
@19 Just blow everything up. One huge explosion. Bulldoze the remnants into trucks. Load contents to suitable vessels. Dump in sea 400 miles offshore. Remove the contagion!
For anyone who thinks this is OTT, remember the facts. Argieland refused to repatriate their own POWs. Or their own war dead. British/Falkland Islands consideration is twisted to justify another argie claim. A minor incident is turned into an international incident. And who did it? Argie “special forces”. Quite easy. Submarine. Dinghy landing. The cemetery is right on the coast! Remove this insult!
such a promising and beautiful country reduced to 'Lebensraum' political indoctrination. When I read the words, ”commitment to the Malvinas cause is born automatically from the moment of conception”, a chill ran over my spine. Through the Falkland claim, Argentina is living out it's very own version of Europe's 19th and 20th century radical foreign policy thinking. ie. invade and starve out a population in a claimed land based upon on the blind revision of truth into myth, with the aim of replacing and repopulating the land with your own population. With neighbours like these, who needs enemies.......
Nov 01st, 2012 - 04:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@23
Nov 01st, 2012 - 05:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Conqueror mind your own country:the UK and your sick UK QUEEN “vagina neck”.....
@25
Nov 01st, 2012 - 06:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0wind your neck in suzzie
What ever happened about the letter they wrote to the ICRC about their unidentified men?
Nov 01st, 2012 - 08:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Eduardo Eunerkian
Nov 01st, 2012 - 08:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0CFK;s mouth peace, he insults the dead by claiming one thing, but installing political propaganda And thus make the whole thing a joke, to what should have been a moving service.
A well tuned indoctrinated controlled society..
[Keep alive that flame of sovereignty”, ]
Theft of what is not argentines, and never was, so theft is well appropriated in this instance..
[the Malvinas cause “is born automatically from the moment of conception”.]]
Positive proof if needed of birth to death indoctrination.,,
They cannot and will not fight for them,
So they tell lies to anybody who is willing to listen,
If their was any grain of truth, the UN would be insisting on it,,
CFK knows she is lying and refuses to go to the ICJ.
What does that tell you.
British Falklands until they decide otherwise,
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Sr. Eunerkian does not honour all the fallen or speak for all the mothers.
Nov 01st, 2012 - 10:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Not at all.
In any way.
“i want to keep alive the flame of all our dead and those who surrendered so bravely and keep alive the memory of the glorious invasion by 14000 soldiers of a settlement of 2000 virtually unarmed people”
Nov 02nd, 2012 - 12:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0“the war was totally the fault of a previous government and isn't our fault even though we celebrate the anniversary of the illegal invasion of april 2nd and even mint new coins to show how happy we were about the whole escapade”
“yeah so 1000 enemy troops and 40 harriers kicked forced our glorious military to surrender despite 10-to-1 odds in Argentina's favour but that just PROVES how we didn't really want to conquer those islands we invaded anyway!”
The bodies of the argentine invaders must be returned to argentina as soon as possible.
Nov 02nd, 2012 - 02:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0Excellent enterpreuner and excellent argentine, that shows respect to our soldiers, their families and the cause of Malvinas.
Nov 02nd, 2012 - 11:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0Perhaps 2 years of investigation of the bible you will need Ámbar??? Its difficult the investigation.....
27 reality check
Nov 02nd, 2012 - 03:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Good question - what happened to the complaints to the red cross about identifying the dead?
Another question - when they honour their dead do they ever include the enemy fallen like they often do in British services?
@28 briton
Nov 02nd, 2012 - 03:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0briton is disabled ...such old man should be sleeping....Isolde don't take his place...your comments are rubbish!
@33 Idlehands
Nov 02nd, 2012 - 04:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They used that ploy this time last year, this is just another dispicable variation on the same theme. Playing politics with the victims of their war.
@28
Nov 02nd, 2012 - 07:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0the UK should pay the 2 trillion dollars debt.....see the UK Debt Clock!
@36 : No hurry , it is not our Navy that is being repossesed by African countries ...Or had you forgotten ?
Nov 02nd, 2012 - 07:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Malen : You are STILL going on about the glass ? You people write graffiti all over your government buildings such as Congress , schools , Cabildo , universities .You set fire to trains , which are state property . You have no respect for the institutions or the property of your own country .
This is why it is very likely the culprit is an argentine .
we see CFK is now sending children onto the bloggs.
Nov 02nd, 2012 - 08:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0i have never heard so much shite in all my life “defending the Malvinas” but Argentina must be used to holding guns against childrens heads to protect them.
Nov 02nd, 2012 - 09:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@32
Nov 02nd, 2012 - 09:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0UK debt. LOL, pay up the money you owe. You lie. steal and you try to hide, but everyone knows where you live. Even THE FUCING BAILLIFS!!!!!!!!!
What does it feel like, not to be able to take anything bearing your flag to anywhere outside of South America? Seriouslyy I realy would like to know, becuase our ships, Aircraft and services bearing our flag, can go anywhere, without the “FUCKING BAILIFFS” seizing it.
UK debt, do not make me laugh, you are without honour, your word means nothing. You are parhias in the international world, seeking new economic victims from the new wealthy of the world and even they will have no truck with you,
UK debt, that's a good one,
The only lasting monument is love.
Nov 02nd, 2012 - 10:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0as long as CFK aint included.
Nov 03rd, 2012 - 12:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0A million quadrillon atoms of love still can't constitute Love when one neutron is Hate.
Nov 03rd, 2012 - 01:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0#41 Then there is a great monument to Cristina =)
Nov 03rd, 2012 - 10:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0Malen : In Argentina , rapists and murderers , if ever caught and jailed , are paroled after 2 years and then released so they can commit their crimes all over again .
Nov 03rd, 2012 - 12:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Why are you so fussed about a bible and broken glass ?
I would be more concerned about the lack of justice on the mainland than what happens in the Falkland Islands .
@45 released so they can vote for CFK either that or back inside
Nov 03rd, 2012 - 12:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@38 briton
Nov 03rd, 2012 - 07:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0shut up ypou damn rapist!
Your tongue keeps spilling out crap.
Nov 03rd, 2012 - 07:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Go take your regurgitated entrails and re swallow.
Twit.
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@47,
Nov 04th, 2012 - 07:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0Good morning, mad soozy-woozy!
47 only poped out of the asylum for sweets.
Nov 04th, 2012 - 06:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0and thinks she is godzillar.
“but of the objective there is no doubt that all Argentines yearn that one day the Malvinas are again Argentine”.”
Nov 04th, 2012 - 07:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So they can f1ck the islands up and impoverish them as they have done with their own joke of a debt-ridden country.
I bet this guy is really planning a tunnel to the Falklands-listen out there at Dunnose Head, or will they manage to make it all the way to Stanley?
Best chance the Argentines will have of getting the Islands as their navy is slowly disappearing.
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