Argentines burn tyres and Union Jack at anti-British protest

Activists held an anti-British demonstration and burned tyres and a Union Jack flag outside the gates of British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline near Buenos Aires as tensions between Argentina and Britain rise over the disputed Falkland Islands. Members of the far-left Bolivarian Quebracho group marched to the GSK campus in the Victoria suburb of Buenos Aires with their faces covered in their signature scarves and carrying banners and chanting slogans denouncing the British presence on the South Atlantic islands known in Argentina as Las Malvinas. The demonstrators piled tyres outside the gates to the laboratory and set them ablaze. The activists burned the Union Jack as they sang pro-Malvinas protest songs. They spray painted parts of the gate and hurled paint balls at the security station on the campus shattering its windows. Long-standing diplomatic tensions over the islands have bubbled up in recent months as the 30-year anniversary of the war approaches in April. Argentina has been angered by oil exploration in the Falklands by British companies and Britain's decision to send one of its most sophisticated warships on patrol in the area. The two countries fought a 10-week war over the Falkland Islands in 1982 after Argentina invaded the South Atlantic islands. London has refused to start talks on sovereignty with Buenos Aires unless the 3,000 islanders want them. SOURCE; http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/falklandislands/9087855/Argentines-burn-tyres-and-Union-Jack-at-anti-British-protest.html