Each day watching the news I cannot believe what I hear! Our perfumed garden it’s overgrown with weeds and full of thorns! We finally hit international news; we have a homegrown serial killer with over  seven kills and rapes of Asian women and children.

It makes one so angry hearing of such institutional incompetence and attempts of cover ups including police passiveness to deal with reported cases. It is unjustifiable yet those failed institutions try to justify their behaviour. If the police cannot be trusted to act professionally where can citizens find protection?

If those seven women reported missing and their daughters were Greek there would be an uproar across the country – but institutional racism is alive and well here and very sad indeed!

In any other country those officials responsible for the safety of the country would have resigned or fired by now; not so in Cyprus; nobody resigns-nobody gets fired! They are the system! Even the President has finally made his usual comment promising more shallow promises that amount to nothing!

I am sure that we are going to learn of more victims soon from this serial killer. If it were not for a tourist to discover the first corpse none of this would come to surface; this is just the start of the investigation and the tip of the iceberg!

We know things are bad here in Cyprus but this is the last thing one expects to hear from this little island.

A failed political system, lack of community values, including a failed education system is responsible for such anti-social behaviour. But, where there is no law; there is no wrong and society suffers the most!

Have a HAPPY EASTER my friends and pray for those poor women lost and forgotten in a system that has failed to protect citizens.

  • Andreas C Chrysafis is a UK published author of six books in circulation worldwide including over 400 press articles. He is an advocate of democracy, Transparency, Equality and Human Rights.
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