Protesters clash with police in Buenos Aires

PanARMENIAN.Net - Hundreds of protesters marched on the British embassy in Buenos Aires on April 2 and launched Molotov cocktails in street clashes with police as Argentina commemorated the 30th anniversary of the Falklands War.

Masked activists from Quebracho – a violent movement that in recent weeks has attacked British companies, including HSBC and GlaxoSmithKline – launched an assault on the embassy, which was protected by riot police, telegraph.co.uk reports.

Four officers were injured as a group of around 200 people broke off from a peaceful rally, attended by 2,000 protesters from left-wing movements who called for the UK to give up sovereignty of the Falklands and branded the British as “pirates”.

Tensions between Argentina and the UK had escalated in the build-up to April 2 commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the Argentine invasion of the Islands, a national holiday in Argentina.

Hours before the violence, Cristina Kirchner, the Argentine president, called on the UK to negotiate the sovereignty of the Islands at a ceremony in Ushuaia and accused Britain of “colonialism”.

Riot police protecting the embassy told The Daily Telegraph that nobody was inside when the attack happened.

On April 2, 1982 Argentine's forces landed in the Falkland Islands which they held until June 14, 1982 when they were ousted by a Task Force sent by then British PM Margaret Thatcher.

Over 900 combatants and three civilians were killed in hostilities, with heavy material and equipment losses on both sides.