Exactly AE . I remember a particularly gory scene of a rabbit being skinned alive on one of those trucks ; the horrific scene of the agony of that poor creature , its squeals mixing with the raucous laughter of the thugs shouting ” Ha jiehu l-fenek !”(referring to Eddie Fenech Adami) – ” Hekk naghmlulu !” – still haunts and sickens me to this day .

Run rabbit run played continuously on Xandir Malta by DJ Clive Waters now Malta’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Daphne I think you need to spell out why rabbits were the animal of choice then. We who lived through the times remember them only too well. We had several rabbits strung to our door by those damn thugs

The younger generations who might not know any of our recent history, or foreigners who have since made malta their own, might not connect the dots.

I remember the rabbits in 1981 very clearly and the many houses that were targeted.

Give us a scan of L-Orizzont 14th or 15th June 1971, please.

See front page of L-Orizzont 14th or 15th June 1971

One of the truck drivers knew my mother and invited us to join them. We spent the whole day driving through the streets of Malta to return around 5 o’clock. Although I was a child, I knew why they had rabbits there and for us this was very normal.

Now thinking about it, I feel disgusted.

No one spoke about animal rights back then, maybe because even human rights were far behind.