memorials

Public Cleansing, memorials and humanity

January 7, 2019

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Jacques René Zammit

Last Friday (the 4th of January) the vice-mayor of the Italian city of Trieste put up a post on Facebook in which he explained that while walking through one of the streets of the city he had come across a pile of covers, jackets and other similar stuff. “Since there was nobody around”, he posted,…
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On Memorials

March 5, 2018

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Jacques René Zammit

What was cleared last night was not Daphne’s memorial. What was cleared was the reminder that justice is failing, it was the reminder of a rebellion against impunity, a reminder that not all of society is prepared to keep their eyes, ears and mouths shut. There will eventually be a time and place to discuss…
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