I GOT THIS FROM LUKE MENDES TODAY (Saturday, 8th May, 2010)
I have reported the matter to NHRC, NWC, PMO, Goa CM - present
and ex, Goan MPs, newspapers etc. See what you can do at your end.
Cheryl D'Souza, her nine-year old daughter Aki, her mother Dora, aged
eighty-four, are fighting the miners who have destroyed their dignity and who
now want to destroy Paikeachi Zor {Paik's Spring} a fountain head for the
villagers. They want to buy her land, Sanfranscisco Estate and turn it into a
graveyard.
Cheryl D'Souza knows the deathly silence of graveyards well, her husband's
ashes are scattered over her farm. When the miners wanted to rape her little
daughter and take away her very existence, Cheryl turned She Wolf, feral and
snarling, to thwart the beasts who are literally panting at her doorstep.
She wants to keep them away. They want to rape and then eat her daughter alive.
She has pleaded, begged of the Goans to help her fight this juggernaut that is
pounding Goa but the Goans have stayed silent. Let her fight, let her go to
jail, let her young daughter and old mother be incarcerated, raped; we will
continue to dip our paos in last night's stale curry, looking into our cracked
plates so that we do not have to see or know. What a shame! What a bloody
shame, you paowallahs!
The miners made her a monetary offer that they thought she could not refuse.
She did. They threatened her. She fought back. They humiliated her. She snarled
in protest. They thought they had won the battle.
One bright morning she declared war and tried to stop the ore trucks that were
carting away the life blood of her Goa. They arrested her and her daughter and
her old mother. And the Goans stayed silent watching her being gang raped by
the politicians and the miners.
