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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 06:00:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: lino dourado <[email protected]>
To: "estb. 1994! Goa's premiere mailing list"
<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Goanet] Raveena's case
I support the statement made by bab Lino, I too am genuinely surprised at the
excuse of Sabina Martins when she says "No one has approached Bailancho Saad
for intervention and we understand another women's organisation is handling the
matter", in the case of Raveena's un-natural death.
Would Sabina Martins clarify as to who approached them in the high profile
"Ratol" case, was it the mother, the brother, the politician or the victim
herself who approached them ?
Even if another women's organization is handling their case shouldn't your
organization support them or help them ?
A women's organization like Bailancho Saad should have been involved in every
crime against women, high profile or not, whether approached or not.
Most of the crimes against women go unpunished because the women involved are
either scared, weak or insecure and have no voice to approach so it is the
members of the organization who are duty bound to seek suck women through their
network and not wait for them to approach. Bailancho Saad should have been the
approaching party.
Roveena's death has highlighted the plight of voiceless people who believe on
what they are told by the doctors and the authorities. If the alleged doctor
has been the cause of her death and guilty of the charges levied against him
nothing less than a death penalty would serve justice.
No doubt Bailancho Saad has been taking up a lot of women issues but my only
advice would be, seek those in trouble and help them get justice, do not wait
for them to come to you because they may never come and die within.
Freddy Agnelo Fernandes
