Greens remember the victims of political violence

By: independent.com.mt

Dec 28 2024
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The politically-motivated murders of people like Raymond Caruana and Karin Grech should remind us of the need to work to uphold the rule of rule and maintain the need for continuous political dialogue, especially where ideas differ, ADPD The Green Party said Saturday. Such dialogue should be done in a mature manner, using language that inspires cooperation and solution seeking.

Green Party Chairperson Sandra Gauci and the Secretary General of the party, Ralph Cassar, placed flowers at the memorial of Karin Grech in San Ġwann on Saturday, 47 years after she was killed by a letter-bomb.

There is the need for institutions to be allowed to work in freedom and continually monitor government operations so that corruption and abuse of power is addressed and kept in check, ADPD said. During this year we have witnessed numerous cases involving the abuse of power which has been more or less given the blessing of the institutions.

Thankfully, these abuses have been exposed by journalists, as otherwise they would have gone unnoticed. There is the urgent need for less blue and red tribalism, which has created a divide and violence on a national scale. Tribalism has begotten a system of nepotism, clientelism and even violence.

This murder, a bloodied chapter in the history of our country, together with other dark chapters that we have remembered earlier this year, such as the murder of Raymond Caruana and the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia, are part of the country's collective memory and a stain on the history of the Maltese people. There is the need for all of us to take a clear stance that our country is against violence, whatever and whoever is affected, concluded Gauci.