> From: "J. Colaco < jc>" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Goanet] Facts v/s Hearsay
The Broken Peace Report has been discussed threadbare and ad nauseum on this forum. See archives for May-June 2006 and later as well. There seems little point in retracing all that ground. Since some questions were addressed to me personally, some brief clarifications: * The documentation I provided to this fact-finding committee is all in the public domain. It consists of newspaper clippings on the Sanvordem-Curchorem violence (English -- Navhind Times, Gomantak Times, Herald and Goan Observer; Marathi -- Gomantak, Tarun Bharat, Pudhari, and Goa Doot; and Konkani -- Sunaparant). Some of this is easily available online, the rest can be obtained from the relevant newspaper files, try Central Library. I am happy to supply the online documentation to anybody interested, as I did to this committee. That relates to what is available on the net, for the rest it involves considerable photocopying from the appropriate places, it's just a matter of time and effort. Also supplied were reports from Goan newschannels like Goa 365, Goan Eye, etc. Some of these are also available online. There are also the legal documents of the case concerning the madrassa in Guddemol, which are again in the public domain. * I was not 'part of the team' that did the report. As the acknowledgements clearly state, I supplied what documentation I had. Well, that's about that report. There was also a strong public demand to constitute an official government enquiry on the Sanvordem-Curchorem communal violence. The government finally constituted a one-man magisterial enquiry headed by the North Goa Collector. This submitted its report in early 2007, which was released in March 2007 to the press and public. Once again, this report has been discussed in detail on this forum, so I won't get into that all over again either. See archives for March-April 2007. [Much documentation from the public domain was supplied to this enquiry commission, in response to a public notice issued by the commission.] The entire magisterial enquiry report can be obtained by making an application through government channels. One problem here is that no digitised version seems available. It is a long report with numerous annexures, if somebody can get hold of a digitised copy and upload for people to facilitate people accessing it, this would be very helpful. Short of that, of course, one can get the hard copy from the govt. (or from presswallahs) and read it. -- Question everything -- Karl Marx
