Oh Happy Day!

While Minister Mifsud Bonnici pats his Italian counterpart Maroni on the back for the latter’s “achievement” in deciding to send desperate illegal immigrants back to Libya, I gawk at this news item in disgust. With Malta having tackled the issue admirably since its inception back in the years, it has finally given in to the pressure posed by arrogant Nations, who, having had the fortune of developing as to allow themselves a high standard of living, are ignoring the rest of the world to enjoy their “West-countries” bubble.

 

In the mean time, individuals, whose only option for survival, that is to hold on to their lives, being hunted down in their country of origin and lacking the resources to fight back, was to flee, leaving loved ones and the life they knew behind through the only door left ajar, albeit illegal. Chances were that after having gone through a painstaking journey that pushed their humanity to its limits, having to cross miles of the Saharan desert with as little as a bottle of water and the fierce Mediterranean, their case would be examined for worthiness and they would be allotted their well-deserved humanitarian status on reaching the shores of a civilised state. With this opportunity now being made a forlorn possibility, they might as well hand themselves in to their oppressors and face death, as the Europeans sip champagne through cynical smiles.

 

Oh happy day! Oh happy day indeed