Falklands remembers the fallen.Falklands remember the fallen on the 19th Anniversary of the liberation of the Falklands from Argentine occupation. More photographs and report in next week's Penguin News.
ADDRESS BY THE REPRESENTATIVE
AT THE FALKLAND ISLANDS GOVERNMENT ANNUAL RECEPTION
14TH JUNE 2001
Two new Foreign Office Ministers have been given responsibility for Latin American and Falkland Islands issues -- Dr Denis MacShane, a former journalist and BBC producer, who replaces John Battle; and Baroness Amos, an academic, who takes over Overseas Territories affairs from Baroness Scotland.
It has long been a legend of the Falklands War that the Argentines defending Stanley were so terrified of the Gurkhas, Nepalese soldiers fighting for the British, that they ran from their positions before the small but ferocious Gurkhas were able to make contact.
A recent estimate that as many as 100 veterans of the Falklands War may have committed suicide in the 19 years since 1982, seven of them in the past year alone, has caused concern in Combat Stress, the leading British charity concerned with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
A report that the Royal Navy is so run down it is unfit to fight or mount another Falklands-type Task Force has been strongly denied by the Ministry of Defence (MOD) in London. It declares: The Royal Navy's operational capability remains highly effective. The Government is committed to strong defence and the continued modernisation of Britain's Armed Forces.
As the Duke of York leaves the Royal Navy after 22 years service, he has been recounting his war experiences as a naval helicopter pilot in the Falklands Conflict.
The Royal Air Force is for the first time using the spoils of war captured from Argentina in the 1982 Falklands Conflict to provide aircraft and parts in front-line squadrons.