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Falklands and Argentine governments regret and repudiate damages at the Darwin cemetery

Wednesday, January 25th 2017 - 07:35 UTC
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The governments of the Falkland Islands and Argentina have regretted and repudiated damaging actions at the Argentine cemetery in Darwin, while an investigation into the vandalizing has been launched by the Falklands Royal Police, RFIP. Read full article

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  • golfcronie

    Far better to complain to the FALKLANDS government. The UK will merely ask the FALKLANDS government to look into it, but wait they are already doing that. Another excuse for Argentina to bring up the FALKLANDS dispute.Anyway IF they are so concerned they ( the Argies ) should pay for bullet proof glass to protect their Virgin of Lujan( virgin, what in Argentina what a joke )

    Jan 25th, 2017 - 10:06 am - Link - Report abuse +3
  • Islander1

    Just a bit unusual though that now on both occasions of damage - it happens in the week when Argentines are visiting using the Rio Gallegos flight connection?

    One does wonder who has/is doing it in order to cause problems for who? One wonders if the are any names the same on both visitor occasions?
    Totally Despicable action anyway.

    Caretaker? -Must be first time he has visited there for 18months or so! - even the British Veterans comment on the untidy mess and unkempt shambles with weeds all over the graves.

    Jan 25th, 2017 - 11:04 am - Link - Report abuse +6
  • GALlamosa

    Vandalism in cemeteries anywhere in the world is an intolerable disgrace, whatever the circumstances and whoever the perpetrators.

    Jan 25th, 2017 - 11:06 am - Link - Report abuse +5
  • Think

    Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee....
    The Redneck Fundamentalist Anglo Falklandist Brigade at work again...
    Valiantly vandalizing a cemetery and a religious image...
    Just like in 2012...

    Just a “suggestion” to the FIG(leaf) &/or the RFC...
    An easy (and cheapo) way to avoid any of these quite embarrassing episodes would be to install one of these on top of a sturdy steel pole...:
    http://webcamerasystems.com.au/Solar-24Hour/4G-3G-WiFi/6MP-Ultra-High-Definition/Remote-Infrastructure-Web-Camera

    Don't you “Think”...?

    Jan 25th, 2017 - 11:11 am - Link - Report abuse -8
  • EscoSesDoidao

    Who's doing this? Get a flaming camera as stated above. I'll bet it's a false flag. Either that or some 'journalist' ......

    Jan 25th, 2017 - 12:12 pm - Link - Report abuse +4
  • DemonTree

    Getting a camera actually sounds like a good idea, as it's happened twice now. Or install a hidden one and catch the culprit.

    Jan 25th, 2017 - 12:32 pm - Link - Report abuse +3
  • Think

    Mr. DemonTree...

    One can't hide nearly nothing in a tiny society like Malvinas...

    As we say in Patagonia............: Pueblo chico... Infierno grande...

    Jan 25th, 2017 - 02:24 pm - Link - Report abuse -9
  • EscoSesDoidao

    Watch those double negatives......

    Jan 25th, 2017 - 03:20 pm - Link - Report abuse +3
  • Marcos Alejandro

    Disgraceful act (again)by the English occupiers.

    Jan 25th, 2017 - 03:48 pm - Link - Report abuse -7
  • Marilen LNG

    It is the Police that should find out who did it. No one to blame. I would repudiate such a fact if it had happened in a cemetery where English soldiers were buried. It does not matter to which nation a soldier has belonged and died in action. They deserve respect.
    Just as the religious symbols of any country must be respected.
    Let the authorities do their work and the fact be clarified.

    Jan 25th, 2017 - 04:34 pm - Link - Report abuse +6
  • Think

    Me dear Albann petiso...

    Ain't no secret,in here at MercoPress, that I (ab)use them double negatives to add a certain touch of Yank class to meself...

    And it works...;-)

    Soraidh...
    El Think...

    Jan 25th, 2017 - 04:54 pm - Link - Report abuse -5
  • DemonTree

    @Think
    If you are right then it should be easy for the police to find the culprit. I'm not convinced though.

    And what do double negatives have to do with Yanks?

    Jan 25th, 2017 - 05:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Think

    DemonTree...

    You say...:
    “If you are right then it should be easy for the police to find the culprit. ”

    I say...:
    Don't say...!

    Jan 25th, 2017 - 05:50 pm - Link - Report abuse -6
  • DemonTree

    Yeah, but I grew up in a small village and I'm not convinced you are right.

    Jan 25th, 2017 - 06:01 pm - Link - Report abuse -1
  • Englander

    Argentines are probably to blame but cameras are not the answer.

    Jan 25th, 2017 - 06:33 pm - Link - Report abuse -4
  • Frank

    Camera wouldn't work.... RGs would steal it.......

    Jan 25th, 2017 - 08:32 pm - Link - Report abuse +1
  • Briton

    If and when they catch this person or persons, we will all find out who they are, wont we..

    Jan 25th, 2017 - 08:45 pm - Link - Report abuse +1
  • Think

    Four and a half years ago..., I wrote...:

    ”(25) Cmd. McDod
    Always refreshing reading a witty comment in this “Sea of Turnipidity” that MercoPress, all too often, becomes…….

    Very “British Navy” to blame the “Royal Army” of all nastiness in the World…………., but......
    I’m pretty sure it wasn’t them……….................…. not this time!

    All “evidence” (based on loose rumors, overheard at the pub, late at night) seems to point toward a couple of not so young civilian males as our valiant local heroes…………

    Let's hope that the Royal Malvinas Constabulary have more ”luck” with this case than with the “Total Disappearance” of Royal Marine Alan Addis……………….

    I wager 100 Pesos to anyone that they won’t……………..

    http://en.mercopress.com/2012/08/01/argentina-will-formally-protest-vandalism-at-the-darwin-cemetery-in-falklands/comments#comment150654

    - “Strangely” enough..., four and a half years after the first vandalic episode..., the ~30 work overburden cops in them crime ridden Malvinas didn't find nothin'...
    http://en.mercopress.com/2012/08/01/argentina-will-formally-protest-vandalism-at-the-darwin-cemetery-in-falklands/comments#comment150654

    Jan 25th, 2017 - 10:08 pm - Link - Report abuse -3
  • Marti Llazo

    @DemonTree

    “Yeah, but I grew up in a small village and I'm not convinced you are right.”

    What voicey really meant was a reference to only argie villages, cities, slums, whatever, and the whole refrano runs as follows:

    Pueblo chico, infierno grande, al igual que toda ciudad argentina.

    Jan 26th, 2017 - 02:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Marcos Alejandro

    Martillito
    Is you real name John Daniel?

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/25/untold-story-english-village-adopted-agorilla-raised-boy-drank/

    Jan 26th, 2017 - 04:19 am - Link - Report abuse -7
  • gordo1

    Marquitos Alejandrito

    ¿Tu madre te ha dado permiso nuevamente para jugar con su ordenador? ¿Si es así pues tienes que aprender temas importantes? “English occupiers”? ¡Idiotez!

    Jan 26th, 2017 - 07:07 am - Link - Report abuse +3
  • The Major

    Ask yourselves who profits from this act of vandalism, It's certainly not the islanders as they know that the disgusting country called Argentina will make political capital out of it like they are doing at this precise moment. It's also quite funny that this has happened twice now 2012, now 2017 and both times it coincides with a group of disgusting Argentine individuals that rampage all over the islands who come just to cause trouble and have no respect for any of the islanders. Yes both times that this has happened they have been on the islands. It's about time the FIG grew a pair and made this bunch of Arginine cretins persona non grata.

    Jan 26th, 2017 - 10:51 am - Link - Report abuse +5
  • golfcronie

    Is the cementery Argentinas responsibility or the FALKLANDERS?. I understood that the said cementery is a little part of Argentina or so it is claimed. Anyone know the answer? If it is Argentine then no way is a camera going to be installed as they do not want to incriminate one of their own now do they?

    Jan 26th, 2017 - 11:15 am - Link - Report abuse +1
  • Marti Llazo

    Install a good high chain-link fence topped with razor wire and let no-one in, ever. Let the weeds grow. Think of it as just another left-behind argie minefield. Problem solved.

    Jan 26th, 2017 - 12:31 pm - Link - Report abuse +1
  • Tarquin Fin

    It's been those Latvian bastards!!

    Jan 26th, 2017 - 01:59 pm - Link - Report abuse +2
  • Think

    Marcos Alejandro...

    Ché..., Bostero...
    Y si nos hacemos Fortineros...?
    http://www.foxsports.com.ar/news/288838-raul-gamez-critico-e-insulto-a-mauricio-macri
    El millonario...

    Jan 26th, 2017 - 02:16 pm - Link - Report abuse -6
  • The Voice

    The most amusing thing on Mercopress is Thinks efforts at coloquial English. Manages to make himself sound like a second rate version of Arthur Daley, but not quite making it. Perhaps the Argentinian equivalent is a horsemeat salesman? The giveaway is that you know you can never trust anything he says and if you swallow it whole you are sure to end up disappointed.

    Jan 26th, 2017 - 03:44 pm - Link - Report abuse +4
  • Marti Llazo

    @gordo

    ¿“ordenador” ?? ¿sos español?

    ---

    @marquitos: “Is you [sic] real name John Daniel?”

    No. But close. Jack Daniels.

    Jan 26th, 2017 - 04:00 pm - Link - Report abuse +2
  • Marcos Alejandro

    Martillito
    I knew you were a cheap gorilla.

    Think
    No but I am going to go to Liniers to pray to San Cayetano to help Mauricio to stop doing boludeces:-)

    Jan 26th, 2017 - 05:01 pm - Link - Report abuse -3
  • Think

    Marcos Alejandro...

    Ustedes, bosteros le dicen “ hacer boludeces” a los negociados que dejan un montón de platita negra en las cuentas Offchorr(o)...?

    En Nuñez les decímos “hacer hijo'eputadas”...

    Jan 26th, 2017 - 05:16 pm - Link - Report abuse -4
  • Marcos Alejandro

    Think
    Well..he used to do businesses with that orange yank..
    Looking forward to see my dear son this Saturday in Mardel :-)

    Jan 26th, 2017 - 06:59 pm - Link - Report abuse -3
  • Think

    Gayina
    a bostero...:
    Te amo, Papi...
    Te amo a romper el c...
    ;-)

    Jan 26th, 2017 - 07:16 pm - Link - Report abuse -4
  • Marcos Alejandro

    :-)

    Jan 26th, 2017 - 07:54 pm - Link - Report abuse -3
  • Think

    Y..., además..., el partido es el domingo..., no el sabado..., bostero burro...!

    ;-)

    Jan 26th, 2017 - 08:45 pm - Link - Report abuse -3
  • gordo1

    BOOSTER - a supporter of the argentinean football team called Boca Juniors. They usually live in slums, are thieves and make up the lowest parts of argentinian society! (According to URBAN dictionary)

    Jan 27th, 2017 - 08:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • gordo01

    Re above

    Should read “BOSTERO” NOT “BOOSTER”!

    Jan 27th, 2017 - 08:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Think

    Ché bostero...
    Juná el comentario del dogor arriba...
    Hasta los gringos chitrulos saben lo qé son ustedes...
    ;-)

    Jan 27th, 2017 - 10:04 am - Link - Report abuse -5
  • Marcos Alejandro

    Ché gayina...
    El ingles chitrulo doesn't know how to spell bostero y uste es el burro, el doparti es el sabado:-)

    Jan 27th, 2017 - 05:32 pm - Link - Report abuse -3
  • Briton

    Think
    Four and a half years ago..., I wrote

    All those years ago and still a lot of us still here,

    and I remember my comment, and still state the following.

    So would it not be fair, and proper, to allow the police to investigate, and see what they come up with,
    And lets all hope, that they catch who or what ever did this thing,

    Just a thought .
    .
    Aug 01st, 2012 - 11:32 pm -

    Jan 27th, 2017 - 07:26 pm - Link - Report abuse -3
  • Think

    Ché bostero

    Primeramente...,Usté vá con acento..., vestia ;-)

    Segundamente..., en cuanto al fulbo del finde, ambos tenemos razón... Empieza el sabado y termina el domingo con los consabidos festejos millonarios..., porsu.

    (Me salvé por un pelo..., qué vergüenza hubiera sido tener que darle la razon a un bostero ;-)

    Jan 27th, 2017 - 09:22 pm - Link - Report abuse -4
  • Marcos Alejandro

    Tenia que ser gayina tenia que ser s a t u r d a y burro:-)

    Jan 28th, 2017 - 05:59 am - Link - Report abuse -3
  • Marti Llazo

    tinkle trying to sound like a bumpkin again. How very fitting.

    Jan 28th, 2017 - 12:43 pm - Link - Report abuse -1
  • golfcronie

    Marcos and Think talking in jibber jabber again, these Argies are no respectors of etiquet, this happens to be an English only forum

    Jan 28th, 2017 - 08:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Think

    Marcos Alejandro...
    Buenos días..., “papi”...

    Jan 29th, 2017 - 09:45 am - Link - Report abuse -1
  • DemonTree

    So Think's team won. The fight was kind of lame though.

    Jan 29th, 2017 - 10:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Think

    TWIMC... (and Engrish (retired) copper..., Mr. Roger Lorton)

    Well.... Footie talk is over... Back to he boring stuff...:

    The last regretable and repudiable damages at the Darwin cemetery...

    I THINK i remember a copper once telling me that, after 48 hours, the chances to solve a crime were reduced by half...

    THINKING about that..., more than 48 MONTHS have gone since the first regretable and repudiable damages at the Darwin cemetery in 2012...

    What do you THINK the chances to solve that old crime are today...?

    Jan 29th, 2017 - 10:35 pm - Link - Report abuse -2
  • Marcos Alejandro

    Think
    Buena noche hijo :-(
    :-)

    Jan 30th, 2017 - 02:37 am - Link - Report abuse -1
  • golfcronie

    And how long will it take to confirm whether Nisman was murdered or committed suicide? I would have thought much easier.

    Jan 30th, 2017 - 08:35 am - Link - Report abuse +2
  • Hepatia

    England will return the Malvinas within 25 years.

    Jan 31st, 2017 - 12:18 am - Link - Report abuse -1
  • Marti Llazo

    Hepathetic will get treatment for Broken Record Syndrome within 25 months.

    Jan 31st, 2017 - 09:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0

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