Re: Should Britain give the Falkland Islands to Argentina
Interesting to compare how the Colonial Office (now FCO) has dealt with Diego Garcia and with the Falklands/Malvinas.
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Re: Should Britain give the Falkland Islands to Argentina
Originally Posted by scot47
(Post 11668556)
Interesting to compare how the Colonial Office (now FCO) has dealt with Diego Garcia and with the Falklands/Malvinas.
And yes, I do know what happened to the population of Diego Garcia. |
Re: Should Britain give the Falkland Islands to Argentina
In Diego Garcia the Colonial Office had no hesitation in deporting the population. Mind you that was to ingratiate themselves with Uncle Sam.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Garcia |
Re: Should Britain give the Falkland Islands to Argentina
Originally Posted by scot47
(Post 11668670)
In Diego Garcia the Colonial Office had no hesitation in deporting the population. Mind you that was to ingratiate themselves with Uncle Sam.
Diego Garcia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
Re: Should Britain give the Falkland Islands to Argentina
Originally Posted by Gordon Barlow
(Post 11668708)
It has been something of a human-rights cause celebre for decades. Such a blatant ethnic-cleansing exercise - .....
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Re: Should Britain give the Falkland Islands to Argentina
Originally Posted by Pulaski
(Post 11668718)
It wasn't really "ethnic cleansing" as occured all too recently in the former Yugoslavia, and appears to be ongoing in parts of Africa, but was more of an "eminent domain" issue of seizing 23 sq miles of land for a military air base and naval support facility. It just happened to be an entire island/ archipelago that was seized. ..... I agree still unpleasant for those relocated, but not at all the same as people killing off their neighbours with tacit support of their government to make way for more people of the same ethnicity.
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Re: Should Britain give the Falkland Islands to Argentina
Shameful story. Perfidious Albion at its worst.
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Re: Should Britain give the Falkland Islands to Argentina
Originally Posted by scot47
(Post 11668747)
Shameful story. Perfidious Albion at its worst.
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Re: Should Britain give the Falkland Islands to Argentina
The removal of the Chagos Islanders from Diego Garcia is what Argentina would presumably like to happen to the Falkland Islanders.
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Re: Should Britain give the Falkland Islands to Argentina
Originally Posted by BritInParis
(Post 11668759)
The removal of the Chagos Islanders from Diego Garcia is what Argentina would presumably like to happen to the Falkland Islanders.
Actually, I'm surprised the Argies don't hammer away at the Chagos precedent for all they're worth. Instead, they bang on about "the geographical imperative" - the Falklands are close to us, therefore we have a righteous claim to them. Like the Spanish and Gibraltar, of course... (For which there is a separate thread in BE's Spain section, if anybody's interested.) |
Re: Should Britain give the Falkland Islands to Argentina
I look forward to the removal of nuclear weapons from Faslane and the development of Faslane as a naval base for an independent Scotland.
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Re: Should Britain give the Falkland Islands to Argentina
I always think this question is totally pointless, because the Falklands apparently have enormous oil reserves offshore, so I suspect what will happen as the oil is exploited is that large numbers of people will immigrate and it will eventually become an independent country, after all it has roughly the same land mass as Northern Ireland.
It's not going to be Argentinian or British. They might pay for the Royal Navy to defend them, but that's about it. Can't see Argentina being able to make a plausible case to invade if the population increases substantially. |
Re: Should Britain give the Falkland Islands to Argentina
Originally Posted by Steve_
(Post 11670003)
I always think this question is totally pointless, because the Falklands apparently have enormous oil reserves offshore. ......
..... as the oil is exploited is that large numbers of people will immigrate and ...... Can't see Argentina being able to make a plausible case to invade if the population increases substantially. |
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Re: Should Britain give the Falkland Islands to Argentina
Originally Posted by CelticRover
(Post 11687178)
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