Vandals attack Argentina's war cemetery in the Falkland Islands

(1 Aug 2012) STORYLINE: Vandals have attacked Argentina's war cemetery in the Falkland Islands, repeatedly smashing and shattering the glass that protects the country's sacred Virgin. Police are seeking suspects, and the islands' government condemned the crime on Tuesday. “I think all of us would condemn any act of vandalism in what is a war cemetery,“ Dick Sawle, a member of the islands' legislative assembly, said on Wednesday. “One of things I have learnt in recent trips to the UK, in talking to professional soldiers that were here in 1982 from the English side, is that all soldiers respect each other, and I think it is the sort of action that we would soundly condemn, and we are doing a full investigation into it to find out what's caused it or who's caused it,“ he added. Families of the Argentine war dead blamed British hostility for what they called an “act of sacrilege“. They have sent letters to Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timerman and Britain's ambassador in Buenos Aires, John Freeman, de