When I first started posting, Erwin was unfortunately misinformed about Gurkhas, and I totally disagreed with him about the Falkland Islands.
After quite a long interlude where Erwin seemed to realise most of the things he’d been told about the Gurkhas were in fact surrilous lies and we agreed to disagree about the Falklands he has reverted.
Posting lies about the Falklands.
Posting lies about the Gurkhas.
All we need now is IRONMAN to return and insist that Jet Engines are made of cheese and powered by the colour purple.
Yes, he talked crap about things he had no idea about and offered no evidence for anything he said (other then Junta propaganda or apparent interviews with veterans) as well. Just like most of the Argentinians who have posted their views of that conflict on this site.
“Encontré otro día a un muchacho de otro Regimiento. Caminaba con la mirada perdida, semienloquecido. Había tenido un encuentro con el Primer Batallón de Fusileros Gurkas del Duque de Edimburgo. Él había conseguido sobrevivir a la feroz matanza que hicieron. Me contó que violaron y mutilaron a los pobres soldados tomados por sorpresa.”
And again, the only “evidence” is the “source” which includes made-up names, lists of ships which were apparently sunk and yet are extant, claims we lost more aircraft than we posessed, and includes some seriously laughable conspiracy theories. And you wonder why we don´t take any notice of it???
If something is true, there will be other sources which back it up. This is not the case for El Malvinese, for the simple reason that it´s WRONG.
“Encontré otro día a un muchacho de otro Regimiento. Caminaba con la mirada perdida, semienloquecido. Había tenido un encuentro con el Primer Batallón de Fusileros Gurkas del Duque de Edimburgo. Él había conseguido sobrevivir a la feroz matanza que hicieron. Me contó que violaron y mutilaron a los pobres soldados tomados por sorpresa.”
I’ve had a quick look, as far as I can see it’s a poorly designed Argentinian site trying desperately to show that they didn’t get completely spanked by a numerically inferior force 8,000 miles from home by lying about British losses and spouting about some laughable ‘secret file’ of British losses that will be revealed in 2072. What are you going to use for evidence in 2072 when this magical file doesn’t actually get revealed (mostly because it doesn’t exist)?
“…y encontramos a un grupo de cinco o seis efectivos que estaban golpeando a unos “argies”(argentinos) que gritaban. A uno le dieron con la culata en plena cara… A pocos metros otro tipo le clavaba la bayoneta a un “argie”. Descargó todo el peso del cuerpo sobre el fusil para que la bayoneta se metiera bien adentro.”
“Todos volvimos al claro que acabábamos de cruzar. Nos separamos y esperamos el siguiente desplazamiento. A unos diez metros a la derecha venía un argentino. Le habían tirado al pecho y gritaba sosteniéndose la herida. Un tipo de la Compañia B atravesó el claro y le clavó la bayoneta. A los gritos del argentino, trató de quitársela entes de morir. Nuestro soldado le decía: ¡No grites más hijo de p…!
El enemigo murió en el mismo instante en el que le clavaron la bayoneta. Nuestro soldado volvió a su lugar como si nada hubiera pasado.
A mi derecha tres argentinos lloraban agarrándose la cabeza. ¿Serían amigos del que acababa de morir?”
“Miramos al suelo, era un “argie” herido. Me miraba fijo, tal vez suplicando, preso de dolor.
-¡Apártese!- gritó el sargento Pettinger.
El sargento le apuntó y le pegó dos tiros en la cabeza.
Lo patié como si fuera una pelota de futbol…”
“De pronto se oyó un grito desgarrador. Después de un disparo vimos a un argentino cayendo barranca abajo. El oficial al mando se levantó de un salto cuando oyó más gritos y vio como un soldado moría de un tiro en la cabeza. Un grupo se acercó al lugar. Abajo, nuestros compañeros enterraban a unos argentinos “muertos en combate”(asesinados impunemente), a los que se los había llevado allí con ese fin.”
“Los terminábamos de matar hundiéndoles la bayoneta en el ojo, porque sus chalecos eran demasiado gruesos”.
Erwin, other than that Malvinese site you keep using, post some evidence of these war crimes or of the British losses in the Falklands. There’s a whole world of sources out there, see if you can find a single one backing your claims, apart from Argentinian ones.
I’ve read both of Mr. Bramley’s books, and so far as I can tell from a rather bad babelfish translation of that passage it’s referring to part of the battle of Mount Longdon. Since when exactly has killing people during a battle in wartime been a war crime?
Oh, and unfortunately I don’t have my copy of his second book around to check if that passage is even in it - going by the veracity of the rest of your sources I have my doubts…
I’ve read both of Mr. Bramley’s books, and so far as I can tell from a rather bad babelfish translation of that passage it’s referring to part of the battle of Mount Longdon. Since when exactly has killing people during a battle in wartime been a war crime?
Oh, and unfortunately I don’t have my copy of his second book around to check if that passage is even in it - going by the veracity of the rest of your sources I have my doubts…[/quote]
if kicking soldiers,suking bayonets in their eyes,shoooting 2 shots in the heads to a wounded soldier (they did worst things,but this are the bramley words)
and they tried to penetrate the heads of the “argies” with the bayonet,instead of shooting a single shot or using the bayonet normally
I’ve read both of Mr. Bramley’s books, and so far as I can tell from a rather bad babelfish translation of that passage it’s referring to part of the battle of Mount Longdon. Since when exactly has killing people during a battle in wartime been a war crime?
Oh, and unfortunately I don’t have my copy of his second book around to check if that passage is even in it - going by the veracity of the rest of your sources I have my doubts…[/quote]
