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Argentina's president stokes up claim to the Falklands
Argentina's president is stoking up patriotic sentiment over the Falklands by ordering that each school have a classroom named after a soldier killed in the conflict with Britain.
Argentina's president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, is playing the Falklands card in her election campaign Photo: EPA
By Robin Yapp, Sao Paulo 3:24PM BST 04 Apr 2011
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President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner made the announcement as she said that "the Malvinas are Argentine for ever" and the government "will never yield in our claim".
She also ordered that a letter written by an Argentine teacher and volunteer soldier killed in the Falklands War be read to all school pupils in the country. The letter, dated 29 April 1982, was written by Julio Cao, 21, and sent to his class of primary schoolchildren after he arrived at Stanley in the Falklands.
Cao, who was killed in action weeks later shortly before Argentina was defeated by a British Task Force, used the letter to apologise for having left in haste, but added: "I find myself accomplishing my soldier's duty of defending our flag."
President Kirchner was speaking at an event to mark the 29th anniversary of the invasion of the Falklands at the weekend. The country's presidential election is due in October and the decrees will be seen as evidence that President Kirchner will use patriotic sentiment over the Falklands to help to win votes.
Speaking at an event in Rio Gallegos, Santa Cruz province, she said: "I know we are going to recover what belongs to us."
She criticised British concerns that Argentina could make a new attempt to win back the Falklands, saying: "It sounds likes a joke coming from a country that likes solving conflicts by bombing."
The letter written by Cao will be taught to all schoolchildren starting from next year, President Kirchner said.
In it he wrote to his class: "I hope you don't worry much about me because very soon we will be together again, we are going to close our eyes and jump on our huge condor and ask him to fly us to that 'land of stories' that as you know is very close to the Malvinas Islands ...
"Children I want you to know that when I go to sleep at night, I close my eyes and can see each of your small faces smiling and playing; when I fall asleep I dream I'm with you. I want you to be very happy and to study a lot because your teacher who is a soldier loves you and misses you."
Hector Timerman, the Argentine foreign minister, also said over the weekend that the issue of the sovereignty of the Falklands had become a "regional cause". He said this was due to British companies drilling for oil in the area and the establishment of a British "military fortress in the South Atlantic" which he claimed was a "threat for all the region".
Mr Timerman also thanked the "commitment" and "concrete actions" of neighbouring countries including Brazil, which earlier this year turned away a Royal Navy ship that attempted to dock in Rio de Janeiro.
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Libya: Nato warplanes kill 14 rebels
Nato warplanes killed around 14 rebels early on Saturday after a stream of anti-aircraft fire was shot in to the night sky.
Libyan rebels pray near the a graves of their fellow fighters who were allegedly killed by the NATO coalition airstrike Photo: AP
By Nick Meo, in Benghazi 6:14PM BST 02 Apr 2011
The victims included medics and a patient in an ambulance, struck near the Libyan front line between rebel and pro-Gaddafi forces east of Brega.
The air strike was the first major friendly fire incident of the chaotic desert war since western aeroplanes joined the fight two weeks ago.
"I only feel sad about the people who died, I don't blame the pilots at all," said Tarek Al-Shagaaby, a law student turned rebel, aged 25. He said he was about one mile away from a huge fireball shortly after midnight and afterwards buried the bodies of the rebels in the desert.
"It was a big disaster for Nato but we don't want the air strikes stopped. Gaddafi has heavy artillery and without Nato he could easily overwhelm us. We buried those we found at the site, they were martyrs."
Mr Al-Shagaaby showed The Sunday Telegraph grisly mobile phone footage he had shot showing skeletal human remains inside vehicles which had been incinerated. Gaddafi's forces later pushed the rebels back a few miles in to the desert away from Brega.
Another rebel who witnessed the air strike, Nasr Shakmak, 33, a former soldier in the Libyan Army claimed that a Gaddafi infiltrator had fired anti-aircraft rounds at the warplanes to provoke an air strike.
But it was more likely that an overexcited rebel had fired in to the sky, making pilots think they were coming under attack.
Rebels had been warned of the dangers of so called celebratory fire, but in such an undisciplined army many do so anyway.
Later in the day there was scrappy fighting around the oil town of Brega which rebels must take if they are to push west.
They claim they have new military leaders, who arrived at the front on Friday, but there was little sign of greater discipline on Saturday.
A large group of rebels lounged by a roadside on a hilltop several miles from Brega, watching occasional shell bursts fired at Gaddafi's troops.
Sightseers were mingled among the rebels, even though the position was in range of rocket barrages, including boys as young as 10 and groups of men who had driven from Benghazi for a day trip to see the war.
Nasir Ammar, a worker in a cement factory said: "I have come to watch. I hope our boys will get in to Brega this afternoon."
The sound of the Koran being recited blared out from loudspeakers and overhead Nato jets appeared to still by flying. Rebels claimed that the Gaddafi forces, including large numbers of African mercenaries have switched tactics in the past week.
Instead of using tanks and rocket launchers based on lorries which are easily hit from the air the Gaddafi forces now use pickup trucks with mortars or rockets mounted on the back to launch hit-and-run attacks.
A rebel called Hisham Milod said: "This morning cars flying our flag of free Libya drove up to the road and fired rockets at us blowing up three cars.
"They left out the bodies of our dead for us but open fired when we came to collect them."
The rebels still have a tendency to panic and flee as soon as they come under fire, and the past week has shown that even with Natos air power supporting them they are unable to make much progress against Gaddafi's better armed forces."
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One of my entries in Camera35's Winter Wonderland theme competition. This one placed third. I've shot this area before, but shot this one new for this competition.
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