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Falklands War: Great Britain
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The Falklands War had lasted only a few weeks. War had never been officially declared and in some minds it had amounted to no more than a minor post-Colonial scrap. In reality it was an event that changed many things and had a great impact.
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In 1982 the Falklands War broke out, seemingly as a bolt from the blue which was to have a decisive effect on events in Britain. From the outset Militant posed the question:
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The basis of the just war claim as far as Britain is concerned is simply that it was a response to aggression. Not only is this principle central to the just war tradition, it is ... enshrined in international law. Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, for example, provides for 'the inherent right of individual and collective self-defence if armed attack occurs'. The 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact and the Nuremberg Charter go further than this by stipulating that response to aggression is the only just cause. The United Nations Charter to some degree equivocates on this point (in the context of anti-colonialism). However, there is no doubt that de facto British territory was attacked on April 2, 1982, and, on that basis, that there was a prima-facie right of violent response.
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Britain ran a secret prison in Germany for two years after the end of World War Two where inmates including Nazi party members were tortured and starved to death. Based on Foreign Office files which were opened after a request under the Freedom of Information act, the newspaper said Britain had held men and woman at a prison in Bad Nenndorf until July 1947. Locals at the time said you could hear prisoners scream at night.
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Certainly, Britain did not learn the Falklands lesson of supplying arms to brutal dictators. Just as on the very day of the Falklands invasion the British government was upholding in the Commons the value of the arms trade to the British economy, so at the time of Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990 the British taxpayer had underwritten the cost of British arms supplied to him. In both cases... militarists relished the opportunity to try out new weapons ‘for real’.
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