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Afghan captives after the Falklands War: a tortuous journey home

In the 1982 Falklands War, more than 11,000 people in Argentina were captured. The management and transfer of prisoners of war was very civilized and very prompt. The first batch of released Argentine prisoners of war, 1,536, disembarked in Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay, on June 13. Argentina sent a small merchant ship and a short-distance passenger ship to take the prisoners back to their motherland that evening. *** The people were not yet ready to accept the fact of defeat, so they had to send the prisoners to a shipyard for isolation. The Argentine garrison on the Falkland Islands announced their surrender on June 14, and these prisoners of war were able to go home. The Argentine Army did not send anyone to greet the first batch of returning prisoners of war, and the only official representative was the local port supervisor. "The "Canberra" cruise ship carried more than 4,000 prisoners of war to Argentina on June 18. Alan Clegg, an Argentine private on the cruise ship, recalled: ""No one came to pick us up, so we were put on the truck." It was a long way from the port to the city, and many people lined up to throw cookies and other small gifts to us along the way. So I was thinking that it was all nonsense when those officers said that the recruits should be punished for the defeat. Everyone in the city was waiting for us and cheering us on. "In 1982, Argentinian soldiers captured by the British army were in a prisoner-of-war camp in the Falkland Islands. Clegg returned to the military camp first and was served delicious food and drinks, and he lived a comfortable life that he had never experienced when he was a soldier. days. They also underwent several psychological tests, but all of them failed. They rested in the military camp for two days and were not allowed to call home. Someone escaped and attracted a group of family members to break into the barracks. The military immediately Let everyone go home. The 1982 recruits were quickly sent home, and the 1983 recruits returned to the army until they had served for one year. The British also detained 500 Argentine officers on a train ferry as a negotiation. They ended up going home a month late. Although the officers' families were anxious, they did not dare to cause trouble for fear of delaying the future of professional soldiers. Many of them were full of hatred for these wealthy business owners in the country. They had promised on TV that those who participated in the war would not have to worry about employment after the war, even if they were missing arms or legs, their company would be honored to accept all honorable soldiers, but of course they broke their promise compared to the British soldiers who returned home in triumph. The treatment was even more unfair.