“Seventy per cent of soldiers assigned to detention services were army’s rejects.”

Former detention services head Col Brain Gatt speaking about the situation in the closed centres when Malian Mamadou Kamara had died in the army’s custody in 2012.


“This is your first test... I’ll be giving you one a month.”

Prime Minister Joseph Muscat asking Opposition leader Simon Busuttil what he would do about former home affairs minister Carm Mifsud Bonnici’s decision not to sack officers involved in death of a Nigerian migrant in 2011.


“I didn’t resign because the inquiry absolved me of any cover-up.”

Former home affairs minister Manuel Mallia on why he waited for the Prime Minister to kick him out after he refused to step aside when asked to resign for failing to correct an official statement.


“He could be witty, deadly serious, trivial and devastating.”

Former Times of Malta editor Victor Aquilina celebrating cartoonist Maurice Tanti Burlò’s incisive work – better known as Nalizpelra, he died after a long illness aged 78.


“Hope is our tool and our weapon.”

Sakharov prize winner Ahmed al-Zubair al-Senussi, who spent 31 years in prison under Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, on the only thing he believes could restore peace in his country


“We had two toilet rolls a month... and allowed to drink 24 litres of water a month in winter.”

Vietnamese Van Hoang Thi Cam testifying against the directors of Leisure Clothing who are charged with human trafficking and exploitation.


“Things are about to change and Malta must be prepared.”

UN human rights expert François Crépeau urging Malta to gear for next year’s influx of immigrants.

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