Never Give In

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We are now in the fourteenth month since the assassination of one of Malta’s prime investigative journalists, Daphne Caruana Galizia. Still, there is complete impunity for her murder with the mastermind still unknown.

Silence is not always golden. In times like this, we all need to take a stand and defy the Orwellian tactics and propaganda. Margaret Atwood, in her prophetic novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, writes this: ‘All that is silenced will clamour to be heard’. And so it will. Even a simple, peaceful act of leaving a flower or candle on the protest memorial demanding justice for Daphne in Valletta is an act of protest. It shows that society is still angry and is still demanding answers.

More than anything, an immediate public inquiry into Daphne's murder is needed, and you can help push for one. Amnesty Italia has a petition demanding it and you can be one of the thousands signing it globally. Besides this, you can attend the monthly vigil for Daphne outside the law courts in Valletta, in front of the now hidden Great Siege monument (because that’s another thing: We have now caught up with Putin’s Russia. Daphne’s memorial has been cleared 195 times, and was boarded up on orders of the Minister for Justice and Culture. It is cleared on a daily basis, even twice a day). The vigil occurs on the 16th of every month, the next one being on 16th December at 19:30.

Complacency is complicity when defiance is required. And here I quote Daphne, who put it excellently: ‘Never give in to authority just because it is authority’. It is your right and your duty to protest. Freedom is not a privilege but a right, though the situation is ominously mirroring Atwood's aforementioned book: 


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