Dear Paulo and interested Goanetters,
1. With utmost respect to your erudition and "concession" (quite similar term
"concession" to "concession" used in mining leases) to your sensibilities, may
I venture in deepest humility to point out that that the very fact/aspect of
"SOVEREIGNTY" accepts in International Law the right of a Sovereign Nation to
protect itself,its citizens, and to put it more brazenly to acquire territory.
2. Just as in law Portugal, Spanish,Dutch and the Brits (other colonial powers)
were entitled to acquire property , they are /were equally entitled in law to
lose property to a superior power.
3. The international currency of "POWER" has, always in history and
contemporary times, according to Mr .Alwin Toffler who wrote three seminal
works " FUTURE SHOCK" , THIRD WAVE" and "POWER SHIFT" , been "VIOLENCE",
"MONEY", "KNOWLEDGE". The faster,quicker and earlier we accept that the
Portuguese were beaten to the punch by the Indians ,the easier will be the
transition to acceptance of reality.(Refusal to be in denial) The Supreme Court
of India has already ruled way back that GOA IS CONQUERED TERRITORY. There is
no denying this FACT.
4. I have had the privilege today of visiting the Station Signal Officers Mess
of the Indian Army at Altinho, Panaji, Goa. It is the very same place which
served as the Headquarters of the Portuguese Military Junta. I confirm that
today (19/04/2008) I personally alongwith friends viewed the Portuguese Flag
"caged" in a glass enclosure at the said Officers Mess with the inscription
that it is the Flag lowered by the Indian Army on "liberating" Goa.
5. Alongwith my friends we also noticed the following documents which are on
display at the said location:
a) the Offer of SURRENDER by the Portuguese Governor/GENERAL to the Indian Army,
b) the acceptance of the said Offer of SURRENDER by the Indian Army,
and ,
c)the message by the then Indian Prime Minister (Mr Jawaharlal Nehru)
congratulating the Indian Armed Forces on their Victory.
These documents need perhaps a larger audience for study,examination and
appreciation.
6. I have the utmost respect for citizens of Portugal comparable to the
respect I hold for citizens of Germany -- the same country who in political
discourse at times in the past -- bought into Fueher Hitlers ideas., but
today is a modern Nation.
7. Can we contemporarily move on now ,instead of being held hostage mentally to
ideas propounded by "deadbeats" /and or "living fossils' who are prisoners to
an age of Portuguese dominance of Goa, which in all human probability
shall never return, inasmuch as Indian Kashmir will never devolve to the
Pakistanis. Portugal needless to say is not a "nuclear capable Nation ,quite
unlike the Pakistani Nation", besides of course being logistically distant,thus
making even a proposition by recourse to Force, LAUGHABLE.
With every good wish and with great respect to the Citizens of the Republic of
Portugal,
Warm regards,
Capt Gerald Fernandes,
Ex, the Indian Army.
LONG LIVE THE REPUBLIC OF INDIA. LONG LIVE THE REPUBLIC OF PORTUGAL .Long Live
International.Peace, Friendship ,Understanding and
Fraternity!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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