-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Wishing all Goanetters | | a Prosperous | | and | | Happy New Year - 2006 | | Goanet - http://www.goanet.org | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Untitled DocumentWhen working in, or reporting about, Sattari one tends to go into a time wrap. In "liberated" Goa with a democratically elected Government, Poriem returns a Kashe everytime, irrespective of which "party" [ the word has a myraid of connotations these days] he belongs. Like sin, the more one tries to avoid it, the more one does it. The bourgeois system continues to this day. That was the story of Saleli village till the son of a kashe was lynched on the day the Catholics world over celebrate the feast of the "Holy Innocents" ..28 December. The breaking news of 03 January, 2006 is datelined 03 December, a day on which the events at Saleli had not occurred ...in any year so far! ----- Original Message ----- From: Digital Goa Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 8:50 PM Subject: Digitalgoa.com\'s breaking news service - December 3 ** GOA BREAKING NEWS Sattari people's ultimatum to the govt **Dec 3 - People of Sattari today took out a marcha on Mamlatdar office at Valpoi demanding the immediate release of all the accused in Saleli incident. The 4000 strong morcha which was in support of the people of Saleli was attended by the people from all the villages of Sattari taluka. A memorandum was given to the mamlatdar asking for the release of all the accused within 24 hours. They have also threatened to start chain hunger strike if they are not release before the expiry of the deadline. People from all the villages will participate in the hunger strike. »» Log on to www.digitalgoa.com for latest news updates on Goa. ........................................... I have had the privilege of knowing Krishnarao Rane personally. He has been a freedom fighter unlike the pseudos that parade on 19 December near Azad maidan. He has been a pragmatic Sarpanch, getting the administration to set up educational institutions, milk collection centres and even an organised fruit orchard for the Honda Panchayat. He is a man of word. It is a pity that he had to suffer the misfortune of having a son die of unnatural causes during his own lifetime. I do not know the son, but I can understand the anguish of the father. I can also understand the anguish of the dispossessed people of Saleli. The fiefdoms should have been abolished in 1962 or soon thereafter. ONLY THE ENACTMENT OF A LAND CEILING ACT and its implementation can be the starting point of reform for the dispossessed. There is no other way, except through bloodshed. The struggle has reached the brink.
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