Monument to the internati

Justin Borg Barthet at Neebother says that a proposal by the deputy prime minister to commemorate the 'internati' would be met with outrage anywhere but in Malta. From Neebother:

Daphne unleashes a scathing attack on Tonio Borg's latest mission implausible in this article. Not content with his campaign for the entrenchment of an anti-abortion clause in our Constitution, Malta's Deputy PM now wishes to leave his mark by campaigning for a monument to those interned to Uganda in World War II.

Is our Deputy PM's campaign miles apart from the fascist madman in the video in my previous post? With all due respect to those who suffered injustice at the hands of the colonial government, Tonio Borg is wrong to portray the internati as national heroes. It is symptomatic of his partisan take on history that he sees things that way. He would not consider the internati to be heroes if they were not also former leaders of his party. The internati were not sent to Uganda because they were deemed to be pro-Maltese independence but because they were deemed to be pro-Italian - pro-fascist Italy to be precise (the same fascist Italy that was pro-Nazi and complicit in the holocaust etc). Tonio's campaign would be met with outrage anywhere but in Malta, yet the fact of Malta's partisan polarisation allows a goody-goody Deputy PM to call for a monument to fascism in 2007.