The Belgrano was a threat
Sir: Charles Moore (The Spectator's Notes, 16 June) rightly criticises ITN for cutting Captain Bonzo's admission that his ship did indeed pose a threat to the task force and that the direction in which it was heading was irrelevant. He suggests that Bonzo might be self-aggrandising. But Bonzo, and others in Argentina, have said the same before.
On 2 May 2005 Admiral Enrique Molina Pico, chief of the Argentine navy in the 1990s, wrote to the Buenos Aires newspaper La Nacion to object to those who called the sinking of the Belgrano a war crime. He said that the Belgrano was part of an operation which posed a real danger to the task force, that it was holding off for tactical reasons and that being outside the Total Exclusion Zone was unimportant as it was a warship on an operational mission. He objected strongly to those who said the crew were murdered. They knew the risks and died fighting for their country; to suggest otherwise was to denigrate their sacrifice.
Christopher Skeate Haslemere, Surrey
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