Falkland Islands

• Thursday, April 4th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  “Navy cuts preclude Falklands-type Task Force”

  Navy experts have warned that the British Government's decision to scrap Sea Harrier fighters means that Britain could not send a task force to war as it did in the Falklands campaign, according to the London Daily Telegraph.

• Thursday, April 4th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  UK Falklands Intelligence failures.

  One of the most interesting and perceptive of the British media anniversary features is a devastating attack in The Times accusing the UK Government of intelligence failures and of ignoring warnings which led to a war which it says could have been avoided.

• Thursday, April 4th 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Fund raising campaign for Darwin Monument kicks off with Colon Theatre concert.

  Internationally acclaimed tenor Dario Volonté, a survivor of the 1982 sinking of the cruiser ARA General Belgrano was given a standing ovation as the star performer at a fund raising concert held last night at the Colon Theatre. The special performance was organised by the Families' Commission that groups the next-of-kin of Argentine servicemen killed during the 1982 South Atlantic War.

• Wednesday, April 3rd 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Breaking News from South America.

• Wednesday, April 3rd 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Burned Guardsman re-lives Sir Galahad horror

  Of all the recollections of the Falklands war, none are more poignant than those of Welsh Guardsman, Simon Weston, who re-lives the horrifying experience of being badly burned along with other guardsmen when the assault ship HMS Galahad was set ablaze by Argentine bombs at Fitzroy.

• Tuesday, April 2nd 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine: Special ceremonies.

  At the stroke of midnight ceremonies began in Buenos Aires and Ushuaia remembering the twentieth anniversary of the beginning of hostilities in the 1982 South Atlantic War.

• Tuesday, April 2nd 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine press gives mixed coverage to the 20th anniversary of the outbreak of 1982 South Atlantic

  While the twentieth anniversary of the outbreak of the South Atlantic has certainly not been forgotten by the Argentine press, the coverage by local television has ranged from decidedly lukewarm to highly critical, mainly of the motivations behind the decision to try to resolve the Malvinas dispute by force.

• Tuesday, April 2nd 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Falklands 20th anniversary.

  The 20th anniversary of the Falklands invasion has been overshadowed in the United Kingdom by the death of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, aged 101, which has dominated the newspapers and caused television and radio broadcasts to be comprehensively re-scheduled with hours and hours of coverage.

• Tuesday, April 2nd 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Duhalde vindicates Malvinas claim in low-keyed address to Malvinas veterans.

  President Eduardo Duhalde told thousands of South Atlantic War veterans meeting in the southern city of Ushuaia that “Argentina will recover the sovereignty of the Malvinas Islands - not with war - but with work, effort and perseverance through diplomatic means.”

• Tuesday, April 2nd 2002 - 21:00 UTC

  Leftwing activists burn Union Jack and throw paint bombs at British Embassy

  A group of around one hundred leftwing activists belonging to student, trade union and social movement groups last night burnt Union Jacks and threw paint bombs at the walls of the British Embassy in Buenos Aires while chanting “death to the English” and anti imperialist slogans.