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These letters were sent by us to O Heraldo on 29th Sept. ’09, the same day
that Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão had sent his reply to Pe. Mousinho.
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*Pro-Goans vs. Anti-Goans, Freedom and progress? And **O Heraldo Pe.
Mousinho.*
*Ashburn Leron Pereira*
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The History of Goa/India has been carefully manipulated over the decades,
confusing people till today. As it can be clearly seen that they annexed
hundreds of Princely States that once existed in the Indian Subcontinent which
were never been annexed or conquered by the British. Though most acceded
peacefully, except for four: Junagadh, Hyderabad, Jammu and Kashmir and
Tripura which was taken at gunpoint by the armed forces of the Indian Union
surpassing the Indian Independence Act 1947. Each Princely State had its own
history, geography and culture.
Intellectuals comprising of Menezes Bragançá, Loyolá Furtado, Uday Bembro
Purusotomá Cácodcar failed in their attempts to get any response from the
Salazar administration, thus putting an end to these Goans who wanted
complete autonomy for Goa. Between ’55 - ’63 Goan petitioners in the UN,
particularly Antonio da Fonseca – Secretary General of the Goa Freedom
Movement held in Paris fought for autonomy too, but unfortunately over the
years when Dr. Mario Soares, representing a new Democratic Portugal,
recognized the annexation of Goa, Damão and Diu and reopened diplomatic
relations with India, which put a complete end to these ‘true freedom
fighters’*. *If the Portuguese themselves were unstable we wouldn’t have had
our Goa colonially and later provincially ruled for 451 yrs.
M. Boyer in one of his songs soon after 19th Dec said “Goycar ami nidlole,
nidloleank uttoile, Patcam corun voir pavtoch modench tuttoile, Bhav – bhav
mhunnon Goyencarank bhatttoilet, Ani aplem apleak mevtoch xekim Goyencarank
fottoilet”. Also, Religion shouldn’t involve itself in political issues, but
some Goans credulously believe that our most revered St. Francis Xavier, had
prophesized, “Goa ninguém a tomará, ela por si acabará” (No one shall take
Goa, she will herself end) (Mário Cabral e Sá - Goa Today, Oct ‘05)
We Goans are facing the garbage problem; pot holed roads, no proper
sanitation negligence over the swine flu issue. Thus when a Goan who wants
to divulge the fact is ostracized, like the trio Conception-Nelson-Anthony,
so also Kid Boxer were punished by hired administrators of the Indian
Government in Goa for exposing the squalid rule, as if Goa was ruled not
only by dictatorial Salazar but someone worse than Salazar. Countless
promises were given to Goans by the Indian Government but all these were
eventually turned down. What about the increase in crimes and robberies
filching Goans of their valuables.
Goa’s immaculate image has been tarnished by bribery in every segment of our
life, India even tried to impose the non-Goan rule of Maharastra in Goa
thereby keeping colonialism alive, thus liberating Goa from Portugal and
subjugate it under Maharashtra and Delhi deputationists in order to
de-Goanise Goa by damaging our culture, rich history and to also hurt our
religious sentiments, other Indians have started pouring into Goa there-by
spoiling the grandeur of Goa and Goans.
We are currently facing degradation of Goan character by the present
generation including politicians because they learnt everything from the
corrupt Indian rule over our land. Such things never happened during the
last years of Portuguese rule but is taking place in the so called liberated
Goa; we then had “Hindu, Mussolmán ani Cristão Bhavponn”. The secularism
that is imposed on Goa now is a fake one, during the Portuguese rule; Goa
had better secularism in its true sense though censorships were prevalent
under the Salazar regime. Even the renowned Goan journalist Frank Moraes
felt ashamed to be an Indian because of the non-beneficial policies imposed
by India. Can we call this 47 years of freedom and progress?
The letters sent by us true Goans, Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão, Ashburn
Pereira, and Leron Pereira never got published on O Heraldo on 1st Oct. ’09,
so I ask what is R F Fernandes and Ashwin Tombat and the whole editorial
group of O Heraldo trying to prove? That Pe. Mousinho is absolutely right?
This is the impartiality by O Heraldo mete out to us Goans who try their
level best in bringing out the truth to the general public shadowing us so
that the self-proclaimed freedom fighters and pro – Indians get all the
credit and people like us have been shunned, this attitude shown to us by
this biased newspaper can’t be just taken on our chin
