Death
Mintoff died at home in Tarxien on 20 August 2012. He was 96 years old. Shortly following his death, Mintoff was praised for his social reforms by Joseph Muscat, leader of the Labour Party. He said the people of Malta had been reduced to orphans by Mintoff's passing, that they had lost "the architect" of their freedom. He was given a state funeral by the Government of Malta on the 25th of August. Special newspapers were printed detailing the finer details of his life.
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