I would like your readers to remember a mostly forgotten Maltese patriot and martyr. His only crime was to have stood up against despotism in Malta. He protested against heavy taxes and the removal of the rights of the Maltese.

Before he was unjustly hanged, he and his family were humiliated by dispossession of his property.

The year 2015 marks the 510th from the birth of Dr Ġużeppi Callus, and the despot none other than Jean de Valette, who helped the Maltese by leading them in repelling the invading Ottoman army of 1565.

A monument of him should be erected not far from the new Parliament, holding the hangman’s noose in one hand and the petition he sent to the king of Spain and Sicily against the despot we have been brainwashed to love.

It is our patriotic duty to honour him because he stood up for the Maltese against all odds, unjustly paid the ultimate price, and his life and death form an early part of our political heritage.

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