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Falklands War: Miscellaneous
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The three destroyers are the ex-Falklands War veterans Cardiff, Glasgow, and Newcastle. They are currently awaiting disposal by the MoD. They will cost £300,000 each to buy, but an estimated £1.5m will have to be spent on each of them to remove any hazardous materials.
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The only man to have been convicted in Britain of Nazi war crimes has died in Norwich prison. Anthony Sawoniuk, 84, was serving two life sentences after being found guilty of murdering 18 persons in the UK's first war crimes trial. The former British Rail ticket collector was found guilty in 1999 of crimes committed in his home town of Domachevo, Belarus.
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Learning nothing from their erroneous past predictions, Ferguson and a number of other US pundits are now pushing for another glorious war, this time in the name of British "honor". For the moment... the prewar stage is being set by a media campaign over semantics: Hostages or prisoners?
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A Russian World War II veteran convicted of war crimes in Latvia has died while awaiting word on how he would serve his sentence. Larionov was found guilty of participating in massacres and mutilations of Latvians in the 1940s, an era the Baltic States refer to as the "Soviet Genocide."
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