Friday 2nd March, Roger has been making his feelings for Margaret Thatcher known who was British prime minister during the first Falklands conflict. Additionally, he was reported by the British media to have said that the Falkland Islands “belong to Argentina” but this turns out to have been a misunderstanding.
In a Facebook post about the mis-reporting of a comment on posession of the Falkland Islands, Roger said, “.. for all those of you who are dumb enough to believe everything you read in the papers, the idea that I would come down on one side or the other on an issue as complex and sensitive as claims on the sovreignty of the Falklands/Malvinas is ludicrous, you should know better. The journalist who wrote the story was at a news conference in Santiago Chile which I conducted through a translator, he just got it wrong, shit happens in translation. I do have a position which I am happy to share on this page, but right now I have to go and rehearse. Chile is so beautiful.”
Roger is due to play an unprecedented 9 concerts back to back in Argentina starting on Monday 7th March 2012 and was inspired to write The Final Cut in light of the British going to war with Argentina after Argentina invaded the islands in 1982.
The overwhelming majority of the Islands 3,000 inhabitants wish to remain British. Roger’s opinion on a people’s right to self-determination under UN rules and international law is that “The Falkland Islanders are British, aren’t they, so they have a point of view and there is a case to be made.”
Roger Waters has a long and passionate history when it comes to world conflicts particularly in the Middle East where he has visited several times in protest to the giant wall that was erected there. In his Wall Tour, he celebrates the fallen ones as an act of rememberance who have died as a consequence of war and projects information abut them across the wall.
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