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Likewise. If you want to call the islands Las Malvinas, well that's fine by me...Equally you shouldn't be to perturb if i call them The Falklands Islands.. We have testimony from 23 people about a soldier who was shot to death by a corporal, four other former combatants who starved to death, and at least 15 cases of conscripts who were staked out on the ground", Pablo Vassel, president of the Human Rights Department of the province of Corrientes, told Inter Press Service News Agency. [28] The conscript that was allegedly "shot to death", has been identified as Marine Private Rito Portillo, who according to the military surgeon that attended him (Major Andino Luis Francisco), was shot in error on the night of 4–5 May when returning to his tent from nearby latrines. [29] There are serious claims that false testimonies were used as evidence in accusing the Argentine officers and NCOs and Vassel had to step down from his post in 2010. [30] Such were his deeds, his sacrifice/a Victoria Cross, no less/would suffice to recognise/his valour and selflessness. An 18-month investigation--by Scotland Yard detectives--is scheduled to be submitted to the director of public prosecutions early in the new year.

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The location of the patrol from A Company was somehow sent by battalion HQ on a different radio net to C Company as an enemy grid reference. The C Company patrol commander plotted this enemy position on his map and realised he could see soldiers there—some fifteen hundred metres away, too far to recognise who they were. Using great skill, he was able to bring down artillery and machine-gun fire onto the A Company patrol, chasing them down into a re-entrant, wounding most of them, two with serious head-wounds. Forgotten Voices of the Falklands, Hugh McManners, p. 334, Random House, 2008 The Daily Mail described the investigation as “the betrayal of our heroes” and called for an end to it. “Stop this lunacy now,” pleaded Max Hastings, editor of the Daily Telegraph and a leading war correspondent during the three-month Falklands War. In 2016, Victor José Bruno (former 7th Regiment private) spoke in defense of Subteniente Baldini, claiming that the officer would happily share his cigarettes with the smokers in his platoon and that Baldini, although suffering from the onset of a serious case of trench foot, refused to be evacuated. [26] But outside the private soldiers/of the Paratroop Regiment/His deeds have gone unlauded/by the brass and Government,

Hop wrote:So the British government were being quite clear that the exclusion zones were in addition whatever self defence measures they thought necessary. Similarly, the prisoner shooting story has been inflated from one frightened conscript into several officers shot (or thrown) off a cliff: in fact, he was stood in front of the pit where the Argentine dead were temporarily buried and shot into it by Sturge with a captured .45 pistol. The story is larger but for us (argentinians) the first to invade the islands were the british in 1833. From 1833 to 1982 Argentina has tried by diplomatic ways to recover the islands, but then happened what we all know in 1982. Major Carrizo-Salvadores manoeuvred Castañeda's reinforced platoon to close with 4 and 5 Platoons; meanwhile, under the direction of Corporal Jorge Daniel Arribas, part of Castañeda's platoon converged on the British aid post. Colour Sergeant Brian Faulkner, seeing that more than 20 wounded Paras on the western slopes of the mountain were about to fall into the hands of Corporal Arribas, deployed anyone fit enough to defend the position.

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In Argentina, President Carlos Saul Menem said he is unhappy with the investigation, declaring, “Let’s bury the past.” Kurt Steiner wrote:As a neutral observer -I was a kid then- of the Falklands war, I would like to say something about it. Of course, the following words are not produced by my remembrances of those past days. I hope I'm not going to offend or enrage anybody. Because stashed in Scouse’s webbing/with his ammo and compo swill/was a cache of bloody Argy ears/he’d sliced-off from his kills. The shooting of the prisoner by Sturge was witnessed by a number of members of 3 Para and he was, in fact, arrested at the scene by the commander of 3 Para's Support Company. It would appear that he was charged with an offence and summarily tried by his battalion commander in accordance with British military law (as it was then) but it is not clear what the verdict or sentence of his commanding officer was: he was certainly removed from the battalion but continued to serve in the army until 1994. Why did he commit this act? Difficult to say. Many of his comrades thought Sturge was a strange and unpleasant man; his company commander described him to me as a 'looney' and one of the British personnel who arrested him genuinely thought that Sturge would shoot him as well. It seems likely that it resulted from a breakdown caused by the stress of battle in which Sturge had hitherto played a leading role (he was subsequently recommended for a decoration but didn't receive one).The Argentine forces on Mount Longdon were recalled reservists with a year of military training. Part of this training saw the 7th Regiment undertake major all-arms collective training in central Argentina alongside the 3rd and 6th Infantry Regiments of the 10th Brigade. [12] The young RI 7 soldiers were not going to abandon their positions easily and several were prepared to hold their ground. They possessed fully automatic FN FAL rifles, FAP light machine guns and PAMS sub-machine guns; these fully-automatic weapons delivered more firepower than the similar but semi-automatic British L1A1 rifles (SLR). They were also equipped with FN MAG 7.62mm general purpose machine guns, which were almost identical to those of the British.