a b c d e "Malvinas: 57 días a sopa". Archived from the original on 19 January 2014 . Retrieved 18 January 2014. From my reading of it it has to do with the rights of neutral and Argentinian civilian vessels or aircraft entering the "zone". Not belegerant warships and support vessels. Hop wrote:Fair enough, though if you could point me to some treaty that showed it was a crime, I'd accept it, or even some undertaking by the British government that they would limit action to the exclsuion zone. Such were his deeds, his sacrifice/a Victoria Cross, no less/would suffice to recognise/his valour and selflessness. When 3 PARA's B Company (under Major Mike Argue) fixed bayonets to storm the Argentine 1st Platoon positions on Mount Longdon, they found themselves trapped in a minefield. British sappers subsequently counted some 1,500 anti-personnel mines that Lieutenant Diego Arreseigor's platoon of Sappers from the 10th Mechanized Engineer Company had laid along the western and northern slopes of Mount Longdon. Corporal Peter Cuxson recalled, [45]

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The battle was going badly for Major Mike Argue. Argentine resistance was strong and well organized. At the centre of the mountain were Marine conscripts Jorge Maciel and Claudio Scaglione in a bunker with a heavy machine gun, and Marine conscripts Luis Fernández and Sergio Giuseppetti with night-scope equipped rifles. a b Hugh Bicheno, Razor's Edge: The Unofficial History of the Falklands War, p. 213, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006 You never get over it, but I have a double problem. I was fighting against Brits, people who were as good as family'He was an Army commando who had fought against the People's Revolutionary Army in Tucuman province during the 'Dirty War'. Thoroughly professional and a dedicated soldier, he expected high standards and exercised rigid but fair discipline. It was to Jaimet that Brigadier-General Jofre turned to when he wanted a heli-borne company. " 5th Infantry Brigade in the Falklands 1982, Nicholas Van der Bijl, David Aldea, p.161, Leo Cooper, 2003 Crónica de las Grandes Batallas del Ejército Argentino: Historia de Caballeros Valientes y Desdichados, Alberto Jorge Maffey, p. 348, Círculo Militar, 2000 In reality, the only gross violation of international law during the conflict was the invasion itself. Whatever the merits of the Argentine case for sovereignty over the Falklands - and the legal arguments are extremely weak, notwithstanding the emotions of the Argentine people - there was no justification in international law for the Argentine government to resort to force, and it was that invasion which directly led to the deaths of a thousand or so young British and Argentinian men. For over two years we've been waiting for a final say on behalf of the courts ... There are some types of crimes that no state should allow to go unpunished, no matter how much time has passed, such as the crimes of the dictatorship. Last year Germany sentenced a 98-year-old corporal for his role in the concentration camps in one of the Eastern European countries occupied by Nazi Germany. It didn't take into account his age or rank. [31] The Battle of Mount Longdon was a battle fought between the British 3rd Battalion, Parachute Regiment and elements of the Argentine 7th Infantry Regiment on 11–12 June 1982, towards the end of the Falklands War. It was one of three engagements in a Brigade-size operation that night, along with the Battle of Mount Harriet and the Battle of Two Sisters. A mixture of hand-to-hand fighting and ranged combat resulted in the British occupying this key position around the Argentine garrison at Port Stanley. The battle ended in a British victory.

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Christian Jennings and Adrian Weale, Green-Eyed Boys: 3 Para and the Battle for Mount Longdon, p. 142, HarperCollins, 1996 I guess what I am asking is what confines British and Argentinian action to the exclusion zone and not to the entire world as long as International Law is adhered to? The only verifiable war crime of the Falklands was Thatcher's sinking of the Belgrano but let's not get into that here. As for Jennings, his problem seems to be that he served with The Parachute Regiment and 2 REP but hasn't really any stories to tell. It's all very well when someone like Paddy Leigh-Fermor does it, or Michael Asher but Chris Jennings? He'd have been better off using his experiences to write fiction... I knew Jennings briefly in the early 1980s in London. He was a member of 4 Company, 10th Battalion (V) The Parachute Regiment, based at the Duke of York's HQ in London's King's Road, and earned his British parachute wings with this now-defunct but then fine London TA airborne unit. He left and certainly did serve with the French Foreign Legion's 2° Régiment Etranger Parachutiste, from which I gather he deserted. I do not know if he earned his French wings or not before he did a runner but I expect he did. I ran across him, looking much beefier than the slim boy I remembered, in a London pub sometime around 1990, by which time he was contributing freelance articles to British newspapers. Please feel free to start a thread concerning 'warcrimes' within N.Ireland, but please dont tag it on to a thread concerning alleged warcrimes within the Falklands, because it only dilutes the thread topic.De los 46 hombres de mi sección, tuvimos seis fallecidos en combate y 21 heridos; ninguno de ellos, que eran soldados del Servicio Militar Obligatorio, se retiró del campo de batalla y todos dieron lo mejor de sí “Malvinas: 40 años”, la emotiva presentación del libro que rescata las historias de 22 protagonistas de la guerra The swearing in English on the part of the Argentines [62] and the discovery of several dead Argentine Marines dressed in camouflaged uniforms at first led the Paras to believe they had encountered mercenaries from the United States. [47] Aftermath [ edit ] National Memorial Arboretum, plaque to Jason, Neil & Ian Major Carlos Carrizo Salvadores recalled that: "During 1981 the Regiment was selected to take part in an exercise with 601st Combat Aviation Battalion. This was a terrific opportunity for the rifle companies to work with the Army Aviation and it was excellent value. " 5th Infantry Brigade in the Falklands 1982, Nicholas Van der Bijl, David Aldea, p.29, Leo Cooper, 2003 Argentina's Falklands War Veterans. 'Cannon Fodder in a War We Couldn't Win'. By Jens Glüsing. Der Spiegel, 4 March 2007