Ana Maria,
You are absolutely right, one hundred per cent.
Goa's freedom fighters are just freedole farters. One of them who calls
himself a veteran FF is Flavian Dias. The only fight for Goa he did was to
deliver press notes and press statements issued by Goan activists pushing
Goa's liberation from Bombay to the offices of the newspaper there and to
beg with Nehru to throw the Portuguese out and take Goa into India for
free. Useless people not worth talking about. If at all these guys and gals
had self-respect, they would have held Nehru to his promises of not wanting
to force Goans join Indian Union if they did not want to. But when Nehru saw
these LEMBDES with their tongues out for dole, he took advantage of it all
and annexed Goa into India without the mandatory Plebiscite under UN
Charter. And yes, their pensions must be stopped and retrospectively
re-claimed. Dr Laura D'Souza Rodrigues who recently died a destitute in
Mumbai was the real Goa's Freedom Fighter and was even arrested by the
Portuguese in Goa when she marched into Goa before the so called liberation.
She never got any pension but punks like Flavian Dias did and are rolling in
it.
At most these people have fallen to Nehrus feet and/ or Bandodkar's feet for
Goa's merger into India and Maharashtra respectively.
Look at East Timor. They are free and independent people today in spite of
Indonesia having occupied and played havoc with them. Timoreans have guts.
Our Goan Freedom fighters had only knees strong enough to go down begging
for pensions.
SHAME ON THEM ALL. They have let Goa and Goans down miserably.
Cheers
floriano
goasuraj
PS: The first thing GSRP will do when it comes to power is to stop all
pensions to these fake freedom fighters and most probably recover everything
retrospectively.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ana Maria Fernandes" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 10:37 PM
Subject: [Goanet] freedom fighters
Mahtma Gandhi , Nehru and others really fought for the freedom of India and
because of their efforts the British thought it wise to leave India into the
hands of Indians and they went away.But in Goa some freedom might have made
noise, meetings etc but it was the Indian army marched into the territory
and used force Goa was liberated. Actually the Portuguese did not sign any
documents and what actually took place was capture of the territory by
force. I do not know if later on any treaty was signed and that is the
reason all those who are born before 1961 are portuguese citizen. It is
wrong to give awards to goan freedom fighters or pension .I am not hurting
any one but these are my personal views.If I am wrong i want to say sorry i
am wrong . I am not a lawyer, I was born much after all these fiasco and am
not a portuguese citizen but I feel and want to know what others feel.
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