Miguel Braganza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thursday, July 10, 2003 9:15 AM
>The reason why many of us who were living in Goa on 18 and 19 >December,1961,are alive to celebrate each day of our lives (and not just Goa >Day) is the decision of General Vasalo Silva not to blow us to smithereens >as per the orders given to him by the paklo dictator,the Salazarist Marcel >Caetano. He was imprisoned by his own government till the April 1975 >revolution . 14 years is a 'life sentence' given to murderers in the >'bharati' Goa. Gen.Silva saved us from genocide.Marcel Caetano should have >been jailed for planning and ordering genocide of Goans.He was not. > >Compare six months with xacuti in an Indian jail against 14 years without >bacalhao in Portugal and you will understand what I mean. > 1) It was not Marcelo Caetano who ordered Governor-General Vassalo e Silva to "to blow" Goans "to smithereens", but Salazar himself. Caetano was not in the Portuguese Government at the time of India's invasion and occupation of Goa, Daman and Diu. 2) Vassalo e Silva was not "imprisoned by his own government till the April 1975 revolution" but dismissed from the Armed Forces, into which - yes - he was reintegrated after the April 1974 (and not 1975) revolution. So, there is no question of him having passed 14 years (in jail) without bacalhau in Portugal. > >As the previous delegado of the Fundacao (Dr.Adelino da Costa) used to >say,"Even the Portuguese nationals suffered under the Salazarists". I do not >understand why some Goans reminisce about the Estado da India Portuguesa >even when their entire lifetime was under the Salazarists. > Even though the entire lifetime of those "some Goans" was passed under the Salazarist regime, they knew and know to differentiate between a regime that governs a country at a given time, on one hand, and that country itself, on the other. And I am sure nobody reminisces the Salazarists but the "Estado da India" itself, i.e. Goa, Daman, Diu, Dadra and Nagar-Aveli as part of Portugal. Everyone has his/her likes and dislikes, and, if those "some Goans" look back with "saudade" to the "Estado da India Portuguesa", so be it Yes, the Indo-Portuguese citizens suffered in the same way as the citizens born and residing in the then "Metropolitan" Portugal, but all of them, the latter and the former, yearned in the same measure for the end of the Salazarist (and, later, Marcelist) era, which, as is well known, came on April 25, 1974. Jorge ########################################################################## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts # # More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ##########################################################################
