"Mummy's War": Argentine vets - 25 years after the Falklands' War.

It's pretty sad to find out that:

• a total of 450 Argentine Falklands veterans have commited suicide since the war -- more than died during the actual fighting;
• the veterans received no pension until 1991 and many were forced to go begging (including for prostheses and wheelchairs);
• according to the vets, their own officers were their greatest enemies;
• the "Malvinas was a war without images".

Check the whole article at Spiegel Online International.

[Argentina] [Falklands] [Malvinas] [Thatcher] [Norberto Santos][Ernesto Alonso][Gabriel Sagasfume]