From Valletta to Belfast: Why Malta Watches the Bloody Sunday Trial
Valletta’s evening news bulletins will carry a Belfast dateline this week as the landmark trial of a former British paratrooper—accused over the 1972 “Bloody Sunday” killings—opens in Northern Ireland. For many Maltese who remember their own country’s brush with British military justice during the 1950s dockyard protests, the proceedings feel less like distant history and…