Yes we can – Fr Joe Borg
It took British journalist Chris Mullin 16 years to succeed in having the Birmingham Six freed from prison. In 1975, they were found guilty of bombing two pubs in Birmingham which killed 21 people and injured hundreds of others Sixteen years later, in March 1991, their convictions were quashed by the Court of Appeal. In January 1972, the British army shot, killed or maimed scores of demonstrators in Northern Ireland. Campaigners had to wait until 2010 for the Saville Inquiry to declare that what happened on Bloody Sunday was a massacre by the British army. It took a full 38 years of campaigning but they got there at the end. What was true for the campaigners in the case of the Birmingham Six and the Bloody Sunday Massacre is also valid for the truth and justice we all wish to triumph following the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia, days away from her fifth anniversary. We will only succeed if we learn from the experiences of others and if we implement the right lessons. Lesson one: never be discouraged The first lesson to draw is that campaigning for justice is generally long and protracted. This is not a struggle for the fainthearted or the armchair critics or those of...