Waiting for the next election?

Richard from the UK based Simple as ABC blog refers to the international coverage of the immigrants controversy and gives his political assessment:

I was shocked to read in the Blog community (which where I get so much
news!) and then in the international media that those idyllic Mediterranean
islands of Malta and Gozo (not forgetting Comino!) have been thrust into much
unwanted publicity of late. See here.

As far away as India reports are rife about “the "bludgeoning" mounted as
some of the 450 asylum-seekers who protested on a football pitch last Thursday
in the Safi detention centre, 26 asylum-seekers were hospitalised, the UN High
Commissioner for Refugees said. According to UNHCR legal staff members from Rome who happened to be visiting Malta at the time and who went to the Safi centre, a former barracks, one of the injured had three broken bones in one leg, another had to take 15 stitches and a third received six stitches”.

According to 'WiredTemples' : "The Government had ridiculed repeated
calls for a National Conference on illegal immigration made by the head of the
opposition party back in October. The MLP had suggested that such a
conference should be organised with a view to establish a national immigration
policy, a subject neglected for far too long by the Government".

So what went wrong? Now an 'enquiry' after the horse has bolted! When is
the next election? Seems MLP got it right then and get's it right now! No change
there then.

This is not the first time that Amnesty complained about Maltese aggression towards immigrants. Read a report about Malta from the UN Committee against torture here (1999)

UN blasts Malta's asylum policy

Rupert Colville reports for the Reuters Foundation about the incidents that took place on a football pitch