Sent from my Samsung device ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "ELVIDIO MIRANDA" <elvid...@yahoo.com> Date: 12 Oct 2016 15:33 Subject: FR. BISMARQUE'S BODY - A CHILLING REMINDER To: "steve.dia...@gmail.com" <steve.dia...@gmail.com> Cc:
*FR. BISMARQUE’S BODY -* *A CHILLING REMINDER* *ELVIDIO MIRANDA* While writing these disturbing few lines on 11th October, 2016 late evening, the sky was crying and the streets were full of tears, even bolts of lightning and thunder could be heard and felt, probably the last rains were bidding goodbye to the monsoons. Then there was complete silence. But a stark reminder, recalled that Fr. Bismarque, a true champion of the preservation of Goa’s environment has still not got his last goodbye. The chilling fact is that while his body remains in the morgue, his murderers are free though not at peace and the people of Goa should consider this tragedy as a clarion call for defeating the forces that silenced our guardian, mentor, foot soldier and custodian, that made him the sacrificial lamb and extinguish those politicians’ smouldering fires that should be doused so as to make his noble soul shine through the dark firmament of environmental degradation, that Fr. Bismarque gave his life for, to save Goa from. The people of Goa should not be idle by-standers but act by casting their votes against the corrupt politicians who colluded with law-enforcing agencies to deceive Goans into thinking that he died of unforced drowning. Let every true Goan show his and her worth by voting out the politicians who ignored seeking justice for Fr. Bismarque and his family. May Fr. Bismarque’s soul rest in eternal peace.