The Ethiopian National Defense Force loses battles to separatists in the Amhara region

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   Banquo

   September 9, 2024

   It is worth pointing out that this is the country the Maltese government wants to send a group of well-integrated and productive Ethiopians living in Malta for several years (and whose children know no other country) to. The Home Affairs Minister Byron Camilleri defended this position in a Times of Malta interview published yesterday.

   Ethiopia is subject to sundry military conflicts. Its prime minister is at war with many ethnic groups in his own country, and the General of Staff and Field Marshal of the Defence Force blathers on about workers in the media wanting to destroy the country (see DW article link in this blog post) and about the need to grow the army.

   All while 44% of the population lives in abject poverty. Nothing about education, investment, GDP, electricity or food. Just insane warlording.

   Do people like Byron Camilleri (who would not survive a week of hard labour) and all those involved in the decision to deport Ethiopians living in Malta back to their country of birth get off on the idea of ruining the lives of ordinary people trying to live a normal life through massive effort, hard work and a good spirit? I bet that flick of the (no doubt extravagantly expensive) pen which flips the lives of people upside down makes them feel really powerful.

   Then, they congratulate themselves on a job well done by relaxing in their illegally built pool. People who know nothing about the world and who have enjoyed nothing but privilege get to decide how the lives of so many in it end. Ignorant, amoral, disgusting. These are the same people who think that voting against holding a public inquiry into the unnecessary death of a young man at a construction site while his mother weeps a few metres away is just politics.

   Mark Laurence Zammit should have asked Byron “not afraid of scrutiny” Camilleri about that, but I guess the scandals come so thick and fast that a journalist only has time for so many questions.

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