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- Subject: ARGENTINA: VETERAN SOLDIERS DENOUNCE BRITISH WAR ATROCITIES
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- ** Topic: ARGENTINA: VETERAN SOLDIERS DENOUNC **
- ** Written 5:50 pm Sep 1, 1992 by jbinder in cdp:reg.samerica **
- From: James Binder <jbinder>
- Subject: ARGENTINA: VETERAN SOLDIERS DENOUNC
-
- /* Written 12:12 am Aug 25, 1992 by newsdesk in cdp:ips.englibrary */
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- Reference: Europe, western
- Title: ARGENTINA: VETERAN SOLDIERS DENOUNCE BRITISH WAR ATROCITIES
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- buenos aires, aug 22 (ips) Veterans of the
- 1982 falklands/malvinas conflict have denounced the atrocities
- committed by the british forces against their prisoners of war, but
- officials have remained silent on the issue.
-
- argentinian santiago mambrin is the third soldier to say he
- witnessed the execution of argentinian soldiers by the british
- troops.
-
- mambrin said he saw how two british soldiers fired on an
- argentinian prisoner after they had taken his gun and some of his
- clothes. but the victim was able to get away, he said.
-
- the vice-president of the centre for veteran soldiers in the
- falklands/malvinas, angel gutierre in
- id they had asked for an
- investigation of the british war crimes in 1983. ''but nobody wanted
- to listen to us,'' he said.
-
- the third argentinian witness, rodolfo carrizo, who was also in
- the battle of monte longdon, where the alleged crimes took place,
- said he saw british soldiers kill a prisoner with a flare gun.
-
- former british corporal vincent bramley had mentioned the war
- atrocities in his book of memoirs, and british member of parliament
- tom dalywell has asked for an investigation of the allegations.
- the british state prosecutor is now investigating the allegations.
-
- in his book, bramley cited seven shootings, but gutierrez
- said the centre had testimonies of ''many more6;(:?39
-
- ''one day the archives on the falklands/malvinas conflict will be
- opened and everything, even things people would never imagine, will
- be proved,'' gutierrez told the argentinian daily 'clarin'.
-
- ''war crimes, like how the british hurled phosphorus bombs into
- our trenches and drove bayonets into the eyes of our soldiers, have
- been hidden from the public. every year we ask the argentinian
- government and parliament to investigate but we never get an
- answer,'' he added.
-
- argentinian army chief gen martin balza, who also participated in
- the war, said he knew nothing about bramley's accusations, althoug gwiurdid not
- discount the possibility.
-
- defence minister erman gonzalez, who had the same reaction as
- balza, said if the accusations were to be confirmed by the
- argentinian government, they would have to be brought to proper
- international fora.
-
- the british press attache in buenos aires, john ingamells,
- admitted friday that the british state prosecutor's ongoing
- investigation of the case could lead to a court trial.
- (more/ips)
-
-
-
- argentina: veteran (2)
-
- but ret colonel carlos carrizo, who led the argentinian troops
- during the battle of monte lonractoh lhere the alleged crimes took
- place, said friday there were no proofs of the executions.
-
- neither was there proof of the presence of u.s. mercenaries in
- the falklands as bramley claimed, carrizo said.
-
- the former commandant of the british naval force in the southern
- atlantic conflict, admiral john woodward, said there was a lack of
- information on the alleged shootings.
-
- but he said he had heard ''complaints and accusations'' against
- captain alfredo astiz who led the argentinian occupation of the
- southern islands which he had to eventually hand over to the british
- forces.
-
- astiz has been accqot grlgollaborating with the former
- argentinian dictatorship's illegal occupation of the islands and of
- the disappearance of a swedish national and two french priests.
-
- but argentinian president raul alfonsin's democratic government
- in 1983 passed laws which justified the ''forced obedience'' of low-
- ranking officials to exempt them from having to answer for deeds
- attributed to the former dictatorship.
- (end/ips/sp/trd/ff/sfi/cir/92)
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