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Falklands, 140 next of kin visit the Argentine Military Cemetery at Darwin
A hundred and forty next of kin of Argentine combatants fallen during the 1982 South Atlantic conflict this Wednesday arrived at the Falkland Islands to visit the Argentine military cemetery at Darwin to honor the graves of their loved ones. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesAt Darwin? Nope, no Argentine war dead in Darwin Cemetery. Their war dead are north-east of Darwin, a good four miles away, out of sight, at Fish Creek.
Dec 05th, 2024 - 08:45 am - Link - Report abuse +3Let us hope the visitors show some respect to their hosts this time.
Dec 05th, 2024 - 09:48 am - Link - Report abuse +1Many Argentine can't seem to grasp that this was the result of an illegal invasion.
Dec 05th, 2024 - 10:56 am - Link - Report abuse +1How Argentina ‘tried’ to justify their 1982 invasion of the Falklands at the UN.
Falklands - Two Acts of Force (1833 & 1982) One Illegal (1 pg): https://www.academia.edu/82967126/Falklands_Two_Acts_of_Force_1833_and_1982_One_Illegal
So the Foreign Minister uses the occasion of a humanitarian visit, facilitated by the Falkland Islands Government, to make statements about sovereignty. Rude, dishonest, deceitful......do these families deserve to be used as political pawns ? If they think its OK maybe the Falkland Islanders will think they have had their chances, and thats it.
Dec 05th, 2024 - 01:32 pm - Link - Report abuse +2What a pathetic bunch of people, even in death their fanatics cant keep their mouth shut,
Dec 05th, 2024 - 03:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0are you reading this Living the dream.
“He also asserted that each flight to the Islands is a testimony to the world of the Argentine commitment to continue, with no delay sovereignty negotiations on the Islands with the United Kingdom.”
Dec 05th, 2024 - 04:25 pm - Link - Report abuse +2Finally Argentina once again reaffirms its legitimate and imprescriptible sovereignty over the Malvinas, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands, and the adjoining maritime spaces.
So you want sovereignty negotiations where you believe you have imprescriptible rights????
That doesn't sound like a negotiation.
The Argentine minister has no rights, no sovereignty, and no honour. Those in the cemetery died for these lies.
From the Photo it is clear that the Arg Families Association have allowed their people to break their own agreed rues- the 2 Arg flags are there in a political fashion- the terms they them selves agreed to a few years ago, with those responsible for the cemetery upkeep her in the Islands, was that next of kin or visiting close friends etc could if no wind lay a flag over that person,s grave for a family photo - or is a wind blowing, then to briefly hold a flag behind the grave cross below waist height for a photo- and that is all. And NO banners of any sort that were politically worded were allowed to be displayed at all in or around the Cemetery.
Dec 06th, 2024 - 12:42 pm - Link - Report abuse +4So they had 2 National Flags being held well back from the line of grave crosses and a large politically worded banner with the Islands map painted in the colours of their flag!!
This was disgracefull and shamefull of them, on top of the political bull droppings from their Foreign Minister as they left Buenos Aires - and thus should be the LAST time the Falklands ever allow such a charter flight .
Just about to say the same thing islander, at the very least the ones with the fantasy flags should never be allowed to visit again, what childish people they are,
Dec 06th, 2024 - 12:47 pm - Link - Report abuse +2Shameful of minister WorthlessWhining to make such a blatantly political and clearly offensive, to the Islanders on here, statement. At what should have been a purely humanitarian event.
Dec 06th, 2024 - 02:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Unfortunately, this is par for the course when dealing with such people.
Only an Argentinian minister would try and sell this humanitarian flight as ‘continue, with no delay sovereignty negotiations’. A deluded statement if ever there was one.
Ultimately it is a decision for the Islanders if they allow these visits or not, a fact which really sticks in the craw in BA, however I don’t think anyone could blame them if they stopped them or at least put a ‘no politics allowed’ condition on them.
They may have brought their flags, but, as I understand things, their glove puppet, the so-called “Virgin of Lujan”, was denied access. There was a big hoo-har about putting it on the plane, but immigration wouldn't grant access. So, that's something.
Dec 07th, 2024 - 08:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0Argies, breaking agreements?
Dec 08th, 2024 - 01:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0It's in their very DNA
“… they would consider the violation of a treaty no greater offence than a lie told by schoolboy. With the Bey of Tripoli or the Emperor of Morocco we might for a time maintain
unviolated the provisions of a Treaty but with these people if a temporary advantage could be gained they would violate a treaty on the day of its ratification.”
US Envoy to Buenos Aires, Francis Baylies July 1832
How about in future when they arrive they are given a talk on the true historical facts of the islands, anyone who refuses to attend and listen are then banned from travelling to the cemetery, make it clear too that any political posturing at the graveside will also include a ban from ever visiting again, its time things where toughened up,
Dec 09th, 2024 - 09:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The british will pay for what they did in 1833.. its matter of time
Dec 10th, 2024 - 03:50 am - Link - Report abuse -3@Arg Cit; What did the British do that so riles you? They asked an Argentine garrison to leave, as they had illegally set up on British land. The civilians, in the main, elected to stay. I will ask again, why doesn't your government take their claim to the International Courts of Justice, once and for all? If you are so upset about the Falkland Islands NOT being a colony of Argentina, perhaps you ought to start petitioning you government to bring the bodies home, so they can buried on Argentine soil? It would be doing us all a favour, including those families, so affected by the idiocies of the Junta.
Dec 10th, 2024 - 08:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0Argentinian Zit, grow up you silly little man,
Dec 10th, 2024 - 09:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0FitzRoy
Dec 12th, 2024 - 08:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0Even your post overstates the British “crime”
The garrison that had already mutinied and murdered Esteban Mestevier wanted to leave, they had chartered the whaling ship the Rapid to take them back to the mainland when Pinedo returned on the Sarandi and ordered them to stay.
The Sarandi was preparing to return to mainland with a 20 or so civilians, who wanted to leave (because Vernet had lied to them) when HMS Clio arrived.
The Sarandi returned as planned with exactly the passengers that were going to leave anyway
The garrison returned on the Rapid exactly as they wished to.
Nobody who didn't want to leave was asked to.
The British “crime” was to take down the UP flag (which had been raised only 10 weeks earlier) and hand it to Pinedo, and allow everyone who wanted to leave or was planning to leave, to do so.
I am not sure what Argentine zit means by “The British will pay for it”. What is the price for taking down a 10 week old flag, 200 years ago....is it more or less that the genocide carried out in Patagonia by Argentina in 1880, or an illegal invasion in 1982???
Argie zit is another deluded Peronist zealot, no one takes him seriously, all he has is Britain will pay, or its only a matter of time, or sooner or later they will get the Falklands, they will probably be his last words before he snuffs it, he went down the same route as Malvi,
Dec 12th, 2024 - 09:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0there used to be a poster on here called “Hepatia”, she must have written the same post “The Malvinas will be Argentine within 20 years” over 300 times across the stories.
Dec 13th, 2024 - 03:27 pm - Link - Report abuse +1That was 14 year+ ago,
Tick tock
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