A travesty of justice

Where there is no Justice there is no wrong…and Cyprus is the champion of them all.
If one is looking for justice to prevail in this beautiful island, one has to really search with a fine tooth-comb; for justice is very illusive indeed! Some will say it simply does not exist!
Judgement day has come for the six accused of the Mari tragedy where 13 innocent people perished in the explosion of the worse political plunder, incompetence and cover up ever attempted by a ruling government.
The Court has decided but its decision does not satisfy peoples’ sense of justice. In a true sense, justice has not been done because many others who share part of the responsibility, including a parliamentary committee, the ex-president and other prominent political names were excluded and were not brought to justice to answer as to their own implication and role of the Mari explosion. One wonders as to the Attorney General’s impartiality and sense of justice.
As always the people will never learn the truth for it will be covered up as always – just like the Poliviou report (now collecting dust), which conveniently the previous government has chosen to ignore. Instead a 73-year-old ex-defense minister will be given a life sentence and used as a scapegoat so justice “can be seen to be done” in order others may escape the long arm of the law. This is Cyprus today, a very sad day for us all.

Andreas C Chrysafi, Paphos

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