Falklands protesters attack British embassy in Buenos Aires

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UK Guardian:

The government has condemned violent protesters who attacked the British embassy in Buenos Aires on the 30th anniversary of the Falklands war.

Several hundred demonstrators pelted police officers with homemade firebombs and threw rocks and flaming bottles at the embassy as a series of events were held in Argentina and the UK on Monday to commemorate the 1982 conflict.

Television footage showed riot police using a water cannon to disperse the group of extremists, who had earlier set fire to a union flag and an effigy of the Duke of Cambridge in protest against British rule of the islands.

The violence came after the Argentinian president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, stoked the diplomatic battle between Buenos Aires and London by describing the UK's control over the Falklands as unjust.

However, David Cameron said he remained committed to upholding British sovereignty over the territory and insisted the islanders must be allowed to choose their nationality.

Argentina's complaints – including to the United Nations – of "militarisation" by the UK will be heightened by the deployment on Wednesday of the Royal Navy's most advanced warship for its maiden operation.

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Argentina, still can't accept the fact that they got beat the last time around.