Folks, Portuguese brutality was not restricted to Goa only. The Portuguese Govt was still massacring people in Mozambique as late as 1972/73. I clearly remember the Mozambican freedom fighters screaming that the Portuguese had gunned down an entire village of 400 people. The Tanzanian papers reported this then but the western press did not.
It was only a few months later when a British missionary returned to Britain from Mozambique that the massacre got mentioned in the western press. Apparently, the Portuguese clergy in Mozambique were under orders to turn a blind eye too. The Portuguese security apparatus, PIDE, was from the early 1960's imprisoning any leader in Africa who was opposed to Portuguese rule. Those were the lucky ones. Those who lived outside the, 'Portuguese overseas territories' were simply assassinated. One Angolan described PIDE to us as the face of the anti-Christ. After the moderates got eliminated, the socialist and communists took over the leadership of the armed struggle against the Portuguese. PIDE agents, fortunately, did not restrict their activities to the 'overseas provinces.' They were detaining and killing people in Portugal too. If I remember correctly, the final straw, was PIDE agents shooting protesters in Portugal in 1974. The revolution there, took place a few days later. Mervyn ---------------------------------------- Santosh Helekar wrote: Here is a partial list of peaceful Goan freedom fighters who were arrested and imprisoned in Salazar's Goa: Nilkanth Karapurkar Guilherme de Souza Ticló T. B. Cunha Purshottam Kakodkar Telo de Mascarenhas According to a historical report nearly 1500 peaceful protesters were arrested and jailed for expressing their opinions and disagreements in public. It is embarrassing to see the various contortions presented in this forum to explain the murders and brutality committed by Salazar's police and agents with regard to peaceful protesters and other innocent Goans. Cheers, Santosh
