Falklands War Vets Clash with Police Over Pensions

Argentine police clashed with a group of former soldiers mobilized during the Falklands War in downtown Buenos Aires Tuesday. 

They demanded recognition as veterans of war and inclusion in a pension plan for war vets.
            
The soldiers were deployed in the 1982 Falklands War when Argentina invaded the British-ruled South Atlantic islands, but never reached the islands during the 10-weeks of combat.

This makes them ineligible for the state pensions enjoyed by the veterans who reached the islands.

The demonstrators were blocking a downtown major thoroughfare when police forces, led by a massive water cannon truck, moved in on them to break up the demonstration. 
           
The ex-soldiers, who began their protest Monday night, resisted the police and hurled rocks, sticks and other projectiles at police armed with batons and riot shields.
            
The police finally fired tear gas and advanced against the demonstrators chasing them through the downtown streets taking a number of them into custody.

The grouping says the want the government to recognize them as "continental combatants" and afford them a "minimal pension."