Tag: Seventh June
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ADPD urge government not to criminalise the homeless and street beggars
Mario Mallia of the Green Party, ADPD, has commemorated the Seventh June Riots with a public statement outside the Ministry of Social Affairs in Valletta. In his address, Mallia called on the government to stop criminalising poverty, following recent incidents in which beggars were removed from the streets by police and brought before the courts.…
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Malta celebrates the Seventh June riots
Malta is today celebrating the 106 anniversary of the Seventh June Riots (1919), the event in which the Maltese people rioted and protested on a national scale against the British Colonial Government and the Maltese wheat merchants during its one of its biggest food crisis in history. The First World War had elevated the cost…
