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. 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.

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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] It must have been some fight because all our rifle company patrols were reporting blood, bits of meat and bandages scattered all over the area. From the way things were scattered the SAS must have been up against at least seventy enemy." [21] See, Scouse he was a green-eyed boy/like the Airborne in Vietnam/or the German Fallschirmjäger/on the retreat from Stalingrad.... Private Fabián Passaro of B Company served on Mount Longdon with Baldini's 1st Platoon and remembers life at the time: David Aldea. "The Argentine Commandos on Mount Kent". britains-smallwars.com . http://www.britains-smallwars.com/Falklands/David/kent2.html . Retrieved 4 April 2010.With the best will in the world Paddy I can't be here 24hours a day. Englander's remarks were baseless,basic and encouragable in there formulation. and they were duly removed, as was your response. Someone (can't remember now who) described that war as akin to "two bald men fighting over a comb". You never get over it, but I have a double problem. I was fighting against Brits, people who were as good as family' 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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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. 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 The Argentine forces consisted of B Company, 7th Infantry Regiment (RI 7), part of 10th Mechanized Infantry Brigade, as well as detachments from other units. The local Argentine commander was 34-year-old Major Carlos Carrizo Salvadores, the second-in-command of RI 7. [10] The 7th Infantry Regiment, reinforced by two Marine Infantry platoons, held Mount Longdon, Wireless Ridge (to the northwest of the Capital), Port Stanley, and Cortley Ridge (to the east). Marine Teniente de Navío (naval rank equivalent to army captain) Sergio Andrés Dachary had arrived at Mount Longdon in the week preceding the battle and was on hand to direct the Marine-manned heavy machine-guns protecting the Infantry stationed there. [11] http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1362425-un-heroe-todos-los-heroes Un héroe, todos los héroes lanacion.com, 03/04/2011 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.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. Wouldn't the British and Argentinian warships and support vessels inside or outside the "zone" be subject to be subject to the conventions and customs of war at sea under international law?