The Economist (US), May 19th, 2007
FEW wars are without their oddities. The small war in the Falklands 25 years ago had plenty. One, which this belated book of eye-witness accounts illuminates, concerns the origins of the invasion. Having murdered about 10,000 of their citizens, and tortured many more, Argentina's military rulers embarked on an almost kid-glove "liberation" of "their" Islas Malvinas.
The Argentine officials sent to administer the islands no doubt had reason, after the event, to emphasise their goodwill towards the islanders. Yet none of the Falklanders quoted here makes any serious complaint about his treatm...
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