Tag: HMS Conqueror

• Wednesday, April 10th 2013 - 07:50 UTC

  Argentine lawmakers criticize Lady Thatcher over the ‘Belgrano’ and for promoting economic ‘neo-liberalism’

  

  The Argentine government remains silent on the death last Monday of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, but several lawmakers, former officials and Malvinas veterans organizations did have something say and not only linked to the Falklands war and the sinking of the Argentine cruiser ‘Belgrano’ in May 1982.

• Monday, April 8th 2013 - 19:55 UTC

  Falklands war, a turning point for Margaret Thatcher’s image and political fortunes

  

  When the head of Argentina's military junta General Leopold Galtieri deployed military forces in the Falkland Islands, Britain assembled a task force to sail to the South Atlantic, to the astonishment of people in Britain, and the rest of the world.

• Monday, April 2nd 2012 - 18:52 UTC

  Former RN officer tells how the sinking of the Belgrano was coordinated

  

  On the 30th anniversary of the South Atlantic conflict, the member of the Royal Navy who was responsible for coordinating the attack on the Argentina Navy cruiser “General Belgrano” spoke to UK-based newspaper “The News,” in Portsmouth and explained the steps that led up to the attack that caused 323 deaths and why it was justified at the time.