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/ 30 July 2007

Tourists contemplate tragedy of war in Falklands

Braving a biting wind in the remote Falkland Islands, tourists comb through trenches and battlefields from the British-Argentine war of 1982, finding weathered combat boots and tubes of toothpaste. These visits to see the scene to contemplate the tragedy of war — 904 people died in 73 days after Argentina tried to reclaim the South American islands from Britain — have given a big boost to tourism in the Falklands.