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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? But outside the private soldiers/of the Paratroop Regiment/His deeds have gone unlauded/by the brass and Government,

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a b c d e "Malvinas: 57 días a sopa". Archived from the original on 19 January 2014 . Retrieved 18 January 2014. Iltis wrote:We seem to be talking about "heat of battle" conduct here rather than "war crimes" as such, I'd suggest its very easy to sit in our comfortable chairs assessing actions 20 years ago, unless we have been in the situation it is impossible to judge men who acted as these did. Recuerdo el nombre de un soldado que murió, al que yo mismo enterré. Se llamaba Rito Portillo, un morochito de Marina. Vino muy mal herido, tenía una profunda herida en el abdomen con exposición de vísceras. Lo atendimos pero... Llegué a conversar bastante con él. Lo único que me decía es que eso le dolía mucho. No lloraba, no gritaba, no se quejaba en forma desmesurada. Se murió mansamente, mansamente... No dijo ninguna frase heroica ni nada. Solo se murió mansamente, diciendo que a él le dolía. No fue ningún sargento Cabral ni nada por el estilo. Se murió, pero lo hizo sin gritos, hasta sin demagogia. Humildemente, como debe haber sido su vida... Asi quisiera morirme yo, de la misma manera.(HECTOR RUBEN SIMEONI, Malvinas: Contrahistoria, páginas 152/153, Editorial Inédita, 1984) Since the 2009 announcement was made, no one in the military or among the retired officers and NCOs has been charged, causing Pablo Vassel in April 2014 to comment:Condition: good. Used - Good : May be signs of prior use, (Highlighting, writing, creasing, folds, etc.) For USED books, we cannot guarantee supplemental materials such as CDs, DVDs, access codes and other materials. The reason the MoD opted not to endorse the citation was that an officer of the regiment objected in writing, saying that McLaughlin’s webbing pouch had been found to contain sawn-off ears and other unspecified Argentine body parts and that it would be contrary to military honour to award him Britain’s highest medal. MyHome.ie (Opens in new window) • Top 1000 • The Gloss (Opens in new window) • Recruit Ireland (Opens in new window) • Irish Times Training (Opens in new window) Escándalo Malvinas: cómo se inventaron denuncias sobre torturas". Periodico Tribuna de Periodistas.

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The SAS finally managed to surround the main commando group, consolidating into a position near the peak, and ambushed them with one of those devastating, explosive onslaughts of automatic fire and GPMG fire for which the regiment is famous. The action in the Mount Kent area continued, and around 10 am on 31 May, the recently arrived Royal Marines spotted a column of Major Mario Castagneto's 601 Commando Company advancing on jeeps and motorbikes to rescue the stranded patrols of 602 Commando Company, but Castagneto's men were dispersed and forced to withdraw after coming under heavy mortar fire that injured both Castagneto and Drill Sergeant Juan Salazar. Los protogonistas cuentan la historia" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016 . Retrieved 18 January 2014. 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 bureaucracy then began to clank, with Scotland Yard detectives interviewing paratroopers, many of them now retired. Detectives made two separate visits to the Falklands and appeared on Buenos Aires broadcasts in search of witnesses. Longdon was the most likely objective for his Battalion. He set up a patrol base in the area of the Murrell Bridge, protected by 4 Platoon from B Company. The Battalion's patrols staged through this patrol base, reducing the distance that they had to travel to reach Mount Longdon and return to the main position each night." 3 Commando Brigade in the Falklands, Julian Thomson, Pen & Sword, 2008

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IMHO no-one here who has not served, including me, has the RIGHT to call down ANYONE who has....... Lance-Corporal Vincent Bramley was patrolling the western half of Mount Longdon when he was confronted with the full horror of the night combat. The 3 PARA NCO and keen writer stumbled upon the bodies of five Paratroopers killed by Neirotti's 3rd Platoon. [65] I left Adrian's response because it answers the question succintly and hopefully no further posts need to appear on that particular issue.In Argentina, President Carlos Saul Menem said he is unhappy with the investigation, declaring, “Let’s bury the past.” What’s significant for forming a view of paratroopers’ actions generally is that front-line members of the regiment clearly accept that McLaughlin mutilated the corpses of the enemy but don’t accept that there was anything particularly reprehensible about this. The expressed distaste of their political masters is seen as sleekit evasion of what they must know to be true. In 2009, Argentine authorities in Comodoro Rivadavia ratified a decision made by authorities in Río Grande, Tierra del Fuego (which, according to Argentina, have authority over the islands), announcing their intention to charge 70 officers and NCOs with inhumane treatment of conscript soldiers during the war. [27] Is founded on the blood and snot/of generations of such men/the salt and scum of our sceptred isle: Stewart Peter McLaughlin”. a b The other companies had skirted one minefield on their approach and Staff Sergeant Pete Thorpe of Condor Troop Royal Engineers was later to lose his foot on a mine while trying to extract a damaged vehicle with injured gunners, near Murrell Bridge. The Yompers: With 45 Commando in the Falklands War, Ian Gardiner, p. 161, Pen & Sword, 2012

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On Mount Simon, Captain Jose Arnobio Verseci's 1st Assault Section, listening to Captain Fernandez's patrol attempts to escape the British encirclement, decided to abandon the feature and attempt to link up with the 601st Combat Engineer Battalion forces guarding Fitzroy. [11] 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. On the Argentine side, the 7th Infantry Regiment Reconnaissance Platoon (under Second Lieutenant Francisco Ramón Galíndez Matienzo) on the surrounding Wireless Ridge position was not able to conduct their own patrolling, as they had been designated the Argentine reserve on Wireless Ridge. Therefore, Argentine Commando units, normally used for deep reconnaissance, were used to take on this role, and they were able to do so with some success. Batallón 5: El Batallón de Infantería de Marina No. 5 en la Guerra de las Malvinas, Emilio Villarino, p.93, Aller Atucha, 1992 This is less than the truth. Campaigners may believe that McLaughlin was the victim of carelessness and trivial technicality. But others in a better position to understand — rank-and-file paratroopers – believe that the citation was abandoned because McLaughlin had committed what many would consider war-crimes but which his comrades believe to have been no more than what was expected of him. Hence both their anger and politicians’ uneasiness.Major Argue's company ceased firing and devoted all their efforts to a withdrawal from 'Fly Half' due to terrible situation. Peter Harclerode, a noted British historian of the Parachute Regiment, went on record, saying that: Twilight Warriors: Inside the World's Special Forces. Martin C. Arostegui. p. 205. St. Martin's Press, 15/01/1997 That following day, another SAS ambush takes place when Lieutenant-Commander Dante Camiletti Marine Special Forces patrol (minus Camilletti and corporal Juan Carrasco who had been captured at Verde Mountain and Teal Inlet respectively) after returning from reconnoitering San Carlos, are ambushed on the lower slopes of Estancia Mountain and sergeants Jesús Pereyra and Ramón López are seriously wounded and captured along with corporals Pablo Alvarado and Pedro Verón who are captured unwounded.