Argentina veterans divided over Falklands 'abuse' case

[Posteritatis]

from the BBC:

Seventy former Argentine army officers are accused of crimes against humanity for the alleged abuse, torture and, in one case, murder of their own troops during the 1982 war with Britain over the Falklands, or Malvinas, Islands. As the BBC's Angus Crawford reports, the case has divided Argentina's veteran community.

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After the brief war with Britain, Argentine forces were defeated, and soon after the dictatorship fell. The conscripts were sent home and, according to Michael, no-one wanted to hear their stories.

"Society looked at us as part of the dictatorship, and the dictatorship looked at us as witnesses of a crime that had to be silenced," he explained.

But no-one wanted to hear the stories from the conscripts.

Interesting article about the state of the Argentine veterans from the Falklands War. Parts will probably ring familiar, given the state of returning Iraq veterans.

Much of the the article quotes a Michael Savage, but just to be sure, it's not the American conservative commentator, but rather a rather younger Argentinian veteran with the same name.

[Louisiana1976]

1. Terrible how the conscripts' worst enemy was not the British but their own commanders.