Accused crime in the Falklands

YouTube - Margaret Thatcher SE ENOJA

video about the sinking of the general belgrano, neoliberal Tatcher tries to sustain an argument and validating this war crime

 

who is belgrano?
Manuel Belgrano - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

Serves them right!

War Crime???


HA!!

 

We've already dealt with one 'Pro-Argentina' Troll on these forums and we really don't like people who try to push their agenda here. Lets keep in mind its a World War 2 forum first and foremost.

 

Jack is spot on! here's a link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Phoenix_(CL-46)

 

If country A starts a war with country B, and subsequently sends warships to sea, it has to expect that country B will also send it's warships to sea and will, if possible, attack country A's warships without warning. This is precisely what happened in the case of the General Belgrano. No treaty or internationally recognized convention of war has ever been established to protect armed warships from surprise attack by enemy submarines during active hostilities. The General Belgrano was fair game, and it's sinking can, by no stretch of the imagination, be accurately termed a "war crime".

 

Totally agree, and if the British were intent on committing so called 'war crimes' (to use the original posters' words) at sea then they would of sunk the Argentine aircraft carrier, ARA Veinticinco de Mayo, as well as her group was being shadowed by another submarine at the same time as Belgrano, but was deemed less of a threat as she was further away from the Task Force.

 

Ships were sunk on both sides , so if people talk about the Belgrano, they shouldn't forget the Sheffield was hit too. As Mussolini said, let us proceed, talking about this will only heat things up and eventually people might get offended.

 

Incredible you actually saw her during WWII

 

SWPV,

"She dodged the scrap yard, but fell in with bad company in the end."


I could make an observation there, but I won't.


John.

 

My hats off to the the Captain of the HMS Conqueror. The only nuclear boat to sink a enemy vessel in action and fly the Jolly Roger.

On the other side what the Argentina Air Force did with A4's, Super Étandards,and Exocets was quite astonishing considering the ships they were targeting.

Yours,

Bill

 

as said before ......it was a conflict - the belgrano was fair game

i totally agree with you Intron, the Argentinan pilots had guts (anybody ever see the combat footage?.......it speaks for itself)

 

If the Argentines had calculated their fuse timings a bit better the RN would have been devestated.

As for the Belgrano, the none exclusion zone means nothing, it was a unilateral declared area mentioned by British. It was never stated no shipping would be stopped or attacked if entering that area. Once the Belgrano and its accompanying destroyers sailed over the bank they would have been lost to the conqureror and on their way to area of carrier location. The decision to sink had to be taken. The Belgarno could not be allowed to play cat and mouse in that area for ever. If conqueror had lost her over the bank then we would be discussing the launching of surface to surface exocets at the task force carriers and how the hell it was allowed to happen.

 

I've heard Thatcher called a lot of things, but never this, all we need now is friend of the unions and we've got the set.

Tl:dr, Did he drown?

Warship sunk in war shock horror? The Argentines don't lose very well do they?

 

Hi dont know were any of you live ?????. The belgrano was sunk after due warning it,s skiper knew the risk,s , the argies lost there aircraft on pebble island but they did not cry about it .i cannot see any of the pics. or vidios that have been put up dont have to , seen it done it have the scars of it ....
raider....for our today they gave there tomorrow

 

Well, I think the OP was just trying to Troll again since he hasn't come back to defend anything in this thread.

On that note, I think I will close this thread as any further discussion not only feeds the Trolls, but also does the proverbial 'beat a dead horse' montage.