Falkland Islands
Someone should tell the film makers that the tracking station in the Falklands was destroyed by Argentina in 1982, because they thought it was military
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And somebody should tell Claudio Carvalho the guy who wrote the storyline on the main page that the islands are called the FALKLAND ISLANDS, not the malvinas as the argentines insist in calling them, and that he calls them in his storyline. The islands are BRITISH, not argentinian.
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Try not to be a berk, you'll lose the credibility you've got by quoting from Blade Runner. You'll be calling Palestine "Israel" next.
Marlon, Claudia and Dimby the cats 1989-2005, 2007 and 2010.
Erm, the Falkland Islands dispute isn't even remotely comparable to Israel/Palestine. The nearest thing the Falkland Islands have ever had to an aboriginal population is currently settled there, including many descendents of Vernet's original 1833 colonists (who were NOT expelled by the British). They, as the world shall see in March (there's a referendum to be held) overwhelmingly identify as British (if not Falkland Islander) and most definitely NOT as Argentine. Argentina's rather juvenile claims are routed in the idea that she inherited the Spanish empires claims and/or the infantile view that proximity alone gives her sovereign rights over the islands (not to mention much of Antarctica). So to surmise Squeeth2, it is you who's acting the berk, and an ignorant one at that!
ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!
If that's a principle it should be universal so I look forward to an end to discrimination against people in other ex-colonies like India and the Caribbean islands, Nigeria, Kenya, Cyprus, Malta etc, blah....
'Cept for personal use, I concur.
Marlon, Claudia and Dimby the cats 1989-2005, 2007 and 2010.
Could you please stop calling Argentine juvenile and infantile? Show some respect for the memory of those who gave their lifes for those beloved islands.
shareI have every respect for the British soldiers who defended the Falklands. I can't say I feel the same about the Argentinian solders who invaded an undefended island and terrorised its civilian population in attempt to steal their land from them.
The islands have never been part of Argentina. The residents are entirely British and always have been. There was no pre-existing native population as the islands were uninhabited. And yet even today the Argentinian government keeps threatening the population of the Falklands with further invasion, economic sanctions and demands for the UK to abandon them.
This is unacceptable, undemocratic and indefensible and the people of the Falklands and Britian are sick to death of the lies and hypocrisy emanating from Beunos Aires.
PS When will the Spanish speaking, European descended colonisers who make up well over 90% of the Argentinian population "do the right thing" and hand Argentina back to the native population?
I don't know where you get your numbers and even if most Argentinians had a Spanish ancestor that didn't prevent them for being descendants of the original population too. The original population have been decimated as it was in all the Americas, but their descendants (with or without European blood) are living in their land now. In fact, government have several integration programmes.
But that doesn't have anything to do with the islands, which were under Argentinian dominion until invaded by British. The civilian population went to live there knowing that they were to be an occupation force of a land that has been claimed (first) for another country. They were not deceived. They accepted to go there, in exchange for economic advantages, knowing the risks and the moral cost of what they were doing.
Argentina's claim to the Falklands is extremely dubious both historically and politically, the population wants to remain British, and Argentina has no means to take them by force. So why are we still arguing about it?
sharethat doesn't have anything to do with the islands, which were under Argentinian dominion until invaded by British.
The Falklands have never been 'under Argentinian dominion' and were British before Argentina existed. Argentina has no valid claim to the islands.
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Actually the Argentinians were much more genocidal towards the indigenous population than most colonists, so the majority are probably pure blood Europeans.
And the islands could not have been under Argentinian dominion when the Brits settled them since Argentina didn't exist at the time. Argentina's claim to the Falklands is roughly equivalent to England's claim to the whole of Ireland.
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