Dear Ignatius, Please reread my reply to you. You call it scathing; it was not meant to hurt your feelings, and if it did, please accept my apologies. But now you go further and misrepresent what I said. Where have I claimed that it was our freedom fighters that liberated Goa? Goan freedom fighters were active in and outside Goa for decades before the Indian Army finally moved in and chased the Portuguese out. May I point out, for the benefit of such individuals as believe that the world came to an end in 1961, that Goa had freedom fighters long before the term was even coined. My maternal grandfather, Hipolito Caetano PInto, was one such; and my mother's maternal uncle, the famous lawyer Mariano Vaz of Anjuna, was another. Both were hounded by the Portuguese in the 1890s for their nationalist views. In fact, they were accused of being complicit in the sepoy mutiny and Rane rebellion of 1895 and eventually had to flee to Bombay, in fear for their lives. You, and others like you, have great faith in the benign nature of Portuguese rule. Perhaps this is because you were born too late to have experienced its excesses. Some of us were not as lucky as you; our memories go back a very long way. Very best regards, Victor
--- On Thu, 7/2/09, ignatius fernandes <[email protected]> wrote: From: ignatius fernandes <[email protected]> Subject: [Goanet] Goa's freedom fighters To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, July 2, 2009, 1:03 PM Thank you Antonio Menezas for reiterating my point of view that Goa was freed by the Indian Armed forces and not by our pseudo- freedom fighters of Goa. I wrote this a few days ago and I got a scathing letter from Victor Rangel-Ribeiro that it was our Goan Freedom Fighters that liberated Goa. Also like Antonio Menezes I would like to know the ages of these of these so called freedom fighters and blow by blow account of their heroics that ousted the Portuguese. Regards Ignatius Fernandes. _________________________________________________________________ Share your photos with Windows Live Photos – Free. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/134665338/direct/01/
