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Falklands' mine clearance progresses steadily: 82 fields still to be neutralized
Minefield clearance in the Falklands is going well on the current phase which will run until June 2017, Dynasafe Bactec Ltd. Program manager Guy Marot confirmed this week to Penguin News. Work to date has involved technical survey and clearance work in the Eliza Cove area (south east Stanley) and Goose Green, and is scheduled to continue after Christmas in the Mount Longdon and Hearndon Waters (Murrell) minefields, and Port Howard on West Falklands. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesThere you go Voicey. Don't forget to add this to your list of things the U.K. Government wastes your hard-earned tax money on.
Nov 25th, 2016 - 08:38 am - Link - Report abuse +4It makes you wonder how much Argentina actually wanted the Islands if they laid 20,000 land mines on them. Just saying...
Why oh why didnt the UK force the scum bag surrendering army to clear the mines up?
Nov 25th, 2016 - 11:54 am - Link - Report abuse -4The process is easy. Line up the argies and make thrm walk the mined zones.
@ Brasherboot
Nov 25th, 2016 - 12:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Because that would be a war crime.
Now you are just being silly Jo...
Nov 25th, 2016 - 02:56 pm - Link - Report abuse -2I once read that the islanders would have preferred the money to be spent on more urgent and deserving causes in the world...
That is precisely what we all said but got told the mines had to be cleared. So there's an example for you of how we have no say in things.
Nov 25th, 2016 - 05:46 pm - Link - Report abuse -1There were media reports that some of the islanders did not much mind certain of the minefields but those were personal and not community reflections. And not of that matters because of the remaining joint obligation that the mines be removed in order to meet international treaty requirements. The mine layers or rather Argentina of course have provided precious little except some grid maps of a few of the minefields. A lot of the mapping for the minefields was lost during the collapse at the end of the conflict, which was anything but orderly. For public relations some of the mine grids were characterised as somewhat accurate, but the EOD folks doing the work have other rather better informed opinions that may not be quite so politically correct. And some of the supposedly detailed gridded mine maps, while at first glance seemingly useful, turned out to be nearly worthless since they could not be correlated to reliable geographic locations.
Nov 25th, 2016 - 08:35 pm - Link - Report abuse +3At least two dead buried Argentines from the conflict were found by the EOD clearance people during their work. There may have been others but I am only aware of two.
I'd be nice if the British set the example of cleaning up after themselves when losing a war (Iraq, the beacon of democracy and peace). Wasn't the the goal...
Nov 28th, 2016 - 03:48 am - Link - Report abuse -2I won't hold my breath that the British will act like real men and go fix the mess they left behind.
You think British politicians are doing such a great job at home they should be allowed to run Iraq too?
Nov 28th, 2016 - 01:04 pm - Link - Report abuse -1What, exactly, should we be doing to fix it? It may well not be fixable by any outside agency anyway; breaking things is always easier than mending them.
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