The Kelpers, as the inhabitants of the Falkland Islands are called, are the first people to have lived on the islands for longer than a generation. The islands are their home; they and they alone have the right to decide who rules their home. They have repeatedly stated their wish to remain British, and the islands themselves have little in common with Argentina. Many Argentine nationals, having been indoctrinated from birth that the people on the Falklands are Argentine, and that they are a part of Argentina, have come back with a totally changed opinion, having seen that the Falklands are nothing like Argentina and therefore cannot belong to them.
It is time everyone here realised that. The Islands look and feel British so must be British is a rather circular argument — if they were Argentine presumably they would look and feel Argentine!
Argentina does not want the Falklands to throw the islanders off. The British initially occupied the Falklands in , Argentina did not stake a claim until Therefore, the Falklands cannot be returned to the Argentinians as the were not theirs to begin with. The Argentine claim comes from the Spanish claim which was prior to Argentine independence.
The Islanders have never been, nor be Argentine. The British government has always tried to use diplomacy regarding the Falklands. Diplomacy went out the window when Argentina illegally invaded. The people on the islands do not want to be part of Argentina. The Falklands government has always been respectful and diplomatic when dealing with Argentina. The Falkland Isles are inhabited by British citizens who hold British passports, they wish to remain British. Argentina has no claim to the Falklands.
The Falklands government is holding a referendum to show the international community its wishes. This resulted in a Lets be honest, any significant group of people living in a place have the right to decide what country the place they live in should be in. If the UK was colonialist it would not be allowing a vote on Scottish indepencance.
Besides, the UK were there first anyway so the yes argument is stupid and even if the British had taken it off the natives, we cannot blame modern Germany for the atrocities of the Nazis, neither can we blame the British for that. The past is gone the fact is that the people who live there now and have been born and lived there for hundreds of years want to be British, if they had only been there for 20 years it would be different but now time has passed it is and hopefully forever will be a bastion of freedom and away from the hellhole of injustice and intolerance that is Argentina.
If we were to follow your theory then give Argentica back to the Natives. The right of self determination rules. The falklands should be British cause the Un said that the Falkland seems will remain as British the islanders voted to remain British even though the falklands are closer to argentine than Britain it does not matter.
If you ask me just let the Falkland Islands be independent from both argentinian and british rule. Arguments can be made that the islands are not british but there are few to no arguments that the islands are rightfully argentinian. So nobody has a clear right to own them just let them be independent. Which as a side note the UK is doing anyway. Argentina would like to colonise and fully assert their control over it. There are many countries around the world the have their allegiance to a far away country.
Hawaii, etc. The Falklands are nearly miles from Argentina where has England is only 22 miles from France, a lot of France was once English. Do England make silly demands NO. If Falklands want independence fine let them decide. If they try to invade again this time maybe we should bomb main land Argentina and their parliament.
I someone punches you on the nose you retaliate by punching them back and kicking them where it hurts most. When Argentina got its independence the islands were inherited and actually, in the ceremony a British man attended as a testimony. But then, years later they started saying that we were the one invading, which was never the case.
We do not want the islands because of any resources it might have, they have much more deep importance than that. They were ours and they took them from us and many lives were lost because of that.
There were never any Argentines living in the islands at time of indeoendence. No credible source states there was ever any permanent Argentine settledment in the island at the time, they only came afterwards, and they expressly asked the British for premission, indicating the accepted British ownership of the islands. Yeah, come and take the islands! So- the British colonies are the problem???
Are South Pacific Islanders bothered about Guam? Are Canadians fighting Denmark for Greenland? This list is non exhaustive. Get over it. As for the comment on taxes- they do NOT pay tax to Britain, do a little more research and get a better understanding.
The Spanish Navy carried out the Spanish policy on the islands, supplying all food and materials it was a military settlement from to and their farms failed , all governors were naval officers, the administration was by the navy, after when the viceroy abandoned Buenos Aires the navy ruled politically too.
That navy was based at Montevideo in present day Uruguay. In , the British expelled a mutinous military garrison which was going to be taken off by the Argentines anyway. The British had specific orders to persuade civilian settlers to stay.
We are NOT talking of overcoming a indigenous population but of simply starting human life on the islands. Giving the Falklands to Argentina would be replacing one colonial power by another. Pure colonialism. However with all these islands her claims to Antarctica would be all the stronger in her eyes. Finally, Islas Malvinas is a Spanish term, in English the islands are referred to as the Falklands and should never be referred to as Islas Malvinas, this is precious and wrong.
The Malvinas islands are our feeling also the islanders , UK only looking for oil and a strategic point, Lieutenant David Hugh Russell Tinker of the Royal Navy told him in his letters, the Argentinian love those islands.
Unfortunately, Mr. Tinker died because of an Argentine missile :. So because the Germans love Poland they should own it? Or America own Canada?
The islanders voted, and We got them back in and have had them quite happily ever since, even before this discovery of natural resources, so that shoots your ridiculous comments down straight away.
They would refuse any economical benefit to have them. Great Britain should recognize the islands are not from their property as it happened with India, North America and many other places around the world. The islands are Argentine and we inherited them from Spain, the British went to invade, please do not invent stories that are not real.
Vernet is in the history books since I learned to read, all the Argentine people have a great feeling for the Falklands. Equally towards the islanders despite the difference of the language and its history, they are not to blame for anything. THis is untrue. This video gives a pretty simplified explanation of how this went down.
The islands are English. And they voted. The very basis for the Spanish claim was a papal bull. The pope the English ceased to respect or follow the orders of years before they took the islands. The Falklands were uninhabited and undiscovered when Britain claimed them in a full years before Argentina existed. Indeed, Spain recognised British sovereignty in The UN Charter, which Argentina has signed, states in Article 1 that all people have the right to self determination.
If they did not get out the Chinese would have kicked their arses out anyway and the British knew it. Next stop on the invasion tour: The Falkland Islands. Argentinians are indoctrinated to believe this crap over ownership of the islands. I pity their ignorance. Sometimes the colonial, yet democratic and free alternative is better than your local opressive superpower with a deep hatred for freedom and democracy, it turns out. Who would have guessed?
Just a few miles off the French coast, it has survived countless wars and defeats for both sides, as well as German occupation. French names or not, the islanders seem happy to regard themselves as a British dependency. Gibraltar is another such anomaly, as are Spain's own Moroccan enclaves. So Whitehall can play the self-determination card, also a powerful one at the UN, which recent reports suggest has some resonance among Argentinians who understand that the Falkland Islands' ingrained habits — fish and chips and all — are deeply British.
A flavour of the mood can be found easily on the Falkland Islands government website here. London says it never accepted the pope's authority over territorial disputes in Tudor times, or now. But what about the Treaty of Utrecht? That related only to settled land, comes the reply. Britain's early claim is strong and, if Britain abandoned the islands in , so did the future Argentine republic in London has provided settlement and support without a break since , including long periods in both 19th and 20th centuries when Buenos Aires' claims went quiet.
In truth, both sides have some substantial points, enough to keep diplomats busy and the military planners anxious — both sides are weaker militarily than they were. But whichever country wins the latest Battle of the Falklands, the lawyers always win.
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The conflict, which lasted 74 days, caused the death of Argentinean soldiers, British and three civilians. His military jaunt — more of an attempt to divert attention from his crumbling dictatorship than anything - had nothing to do with the genuine aspiration of Argentina to recover Las Malvinas.
The current push by Argentina to recover Las Malvinas, encapsulated by the energetic diplomatic offensive of the Argentinean president Cristina Kirchner, is today not only genuine but also legitimate. Kirchner has transformed the recovery of Las Malvinas into a central piece of her renewed political mandate; she was re-elected recently with an overwhelming majority.
President Kirchner is articulating a genuine national aspiration and she is playing by the rules.
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