A NEW Falklands War Museum in Argentina has been slammed for inflating the number of Brits killed — and claiming our troops attacked civilians.
The £10million site in Bariloche, which opened last month, claims 1,200 Brit servicemen died in the 1982 war, rather than the actual toll of 255.
A storyboard at the state-run venue also claims fighting started when “the British Empire attacked a group of civilians” before “lawful retaliation followed”.
In fact, Britain hit back after General Leopoldo Galtieri seized the islands in an illegal invasion.
British tourist Steve Douglas, 65, who visited the museum, said: “It’s full of revisionist nonsense.
“The Argentine surrender is glossed over, and it’s our forces who are portrayed as untrustworthy aggressors.
“Most offensive of all was their suggestion that we had distorted our casualty numbers in some sort of UK-government inspired cover-up.”
Admiral Lord West of Spithead, who skippered HMS Ardent during the war, said: “This is clearly nonsense and these sorts of claims serve nobody.”
Tom Herring, the chairman of the South Atlantic Medal Association 1982, said: “This is clearly a poor attempt at re-writing history.
“Trying to claim that there were more British troops killed in action than there actually were is an insult to all of those who died in the conflict, both British and Argentinian.”
