A legal career, roads travelled
Most of us still remember the tragedy of the Balkan War in the 1990s and the disintegration of Yugoslavia into many states. The Kosovo War, the last chapter of this last 20th-century war on European soil, broke out in 1998, when Serbia’s province of Kosovo requested independence, with the consequence of further lives lost when the ethnic Albanians clashed with the Serbian army. NATO’s 11-week bombing sorties brought an end to the war. To this day, Serbia refuses to recognise Kosovo as an independent state. But mankind never learns, and we, once again, are witnessing a war between European brothers. Godwin Muscat Azzopardi Godwin Muscat Azzopardi, who served as judge in the Commercial and Appeals Court in Malta, was appointed UN judge in Kosovo in 2004, in the aftermath of the Kosovo conflict. He served there for six years after which he returned to Malta to rejoin his local legal firm. He has in the meantime retired from legal practice altogether, indulging in art, a passion that has existed since his childhood. Senglea’s gallery, Art at the Seaside, is currently hosting his exhibition of paintings titled eloquently The Roads Travelled. This love for art had been nurtured by his...