By Dave Gilbert, CNN <\/p>\n
updated 10:30 AM EST, Fri January 4, 2013 <\/p>\n
STORY HIGHLIGHTS <\/p>\n
London (CNN) -- Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is once again calling on the UK to hand back the Falkland Islands -- known in Argentina as Las Malvinas -- accusing Britain of blatant colonialism. <\/p>\n
In an open letter to British Prime Minister David Cameron, which was published in the British press, she says that Britain stripped the islands away from Argentina 180 years ago on Thursday's date: January 3. <\/p>\n
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The two countries went to war over the territory in 1982, when the then-Argentinian military government landed troops on the islands. <\/p>\n
Argentina put its death toll from the conflict at around 645. Britain's civil and military losses amounted to 255. <\/p>\n
Falklands war wounds still fresh, 30 years later <\/p>\n
In the letter, which was copied to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the Argentinian president writes: \"The Argentines on the Islands were expelled by the Royal Navy and the United Kingdom subsequently began a population implantation process similar to that applied to other territories under colonial rule. <\/p>\n
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