Democracy at the point of a gun. There are those on GN who challenged the views of the Late Leo Lourenco who penned the invasion in his Nehru Seizes Goa. I am glad that the noted Dr. Fernando Colaco has also written his account of the dark days of December 1961. It was not only the judiciary that was affected by the illegal acts (Geneva Conventions out of the window) but also those in the medical field as written by the author L. Lourenco. Broadcasting at the Emissor was also deleted during this period. This was all a prelude to the chorancho raz installed 54 years. A few fake bharati nationalists are on this forum.
BC A 24-Hour Ultimatum to the Judiciary Veteran advocate Fernando Jorge Colaco, who this week released his autobiography titled *December 18-19, 1961: Before, During and After* shares experiences from those fateful times. Our class of the judiciary, especially the law graduates of Portugal, were occupying high posts in the Goa judiciary and allied jobs. They held posts of the President (Chief Justice) of the Rela??o de Goa [1] and the Procurador da Rep?blica [2] to the Registrar of the High Court, judges, government advocates, land registrars and notaries. But they also had their hour of trial coming not before long. This came in the form of a 24-hour ultimatum from the Military Government under the newly appointed Military Governor Major-General K.P. Candeth [3] (who had held the field direction of the Operation Vijay) and his Special (Political) Adviser Gopi K. Handoo, the eminence grise of the new dispensation and one of the planners of the take-over by military action. Those holding the top legal positions in Goa were given a choice between swearing allegiance to India and signing of a declaration to that effect, or being ejected from e Secretary-General, then under house-arrest.)
