Re: [Goanet] PIDE- Portugal's secret Police

2013-01-10 Thread Jose Colaco
Mervyn Lobo mervynal...@yahoo.ca wrote: Zanzibar got absorbed into Tanzania JUST LIKE GOA got absorbed into India i.e. without a referendum. To this very day, there are disgrunted people in Zanzibar who want to separate. RESPONSE: No my dear Mervyn, Zanzibar did NOT get absorbed into Tanzania

Re: [Goanet] PIDE- Portugal's secret Police

2013-01-10 Thread Mervyn Lobo
Jose Colaco wrote: No my dear Mervyn, Zanzibar did NOT get absorbed into Tanzania JUST LIKE GOA for the following reasons: 1: There was NO Tanzania before the mutually agreed union of Tanganika and Zanzibar. 2: Goa was annexed following an invasion by Indian armed forces. No such invasion or   

Re: [Goanet] PIDE- Portugal's secret Police

2013-01-09 Thread Mervyn Lobo
Jose Colaco wrote: c: I am not in the business of making 'helium filled' statements. I KNOW the  people I am referring to. One of the families, I personally know, suffered at  the hands of the very folks (in EA) the menfolk struggled for.  Doc, I guess part of the problem here is that there

Re: [Goanet] PIDE- Portugal's secret Police

2013-01-08 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
, Bernado Colaco ole_...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: From: Bernado Colaco ole_...@yahoo.co.uk Subject: [Goanet] PIDE- Portugal's secret Police To: goanet@lists.goanet.org goanet@lists.goanet.org Date: Monday, January 7, 2013, 1:21 AM What Merv does not inform the reader of GN is the aftermath of forced

Re: [Goanet] PIDE- Portugal's secret Police

2013-01-08 Thread Mervyn Lobo
Jose Colaco wrote: The irony of all this is that almost ALL of the folks from East Africa who shouted from  the roof tops about Colonialism and were anti-'white' eventually migrated to the UK  (which still has colonies) or to other white countries..and some even opted to  procure

Re: [Goanet] PIDE- Portugal's secret Police

2013-01-08 Thread Jose Colaco
Re the following from me: The irony of all this is that almost ALL of the folks from East Africa who shouted from the roof tops about Colonialism and were anti-'white' eventually migrated to the UK (which still has colonies) or to other white countries..and some even opted to procure

[Goanet] PIDE- Portugal's secret Police

2013-01-07 Thread Bernado Colaco
What Merv does not inform the reader of GN is the aftermath of forced decolonization. Many of the Frelimo, Renamo, MPLA, UNITA, Holden Roberto, PAIGC went to live in the shanty towns around Amadora - Lisbon. Countless died in the civil war. Who enjoyed at the end were the bloody Russians, as

Re: [Goanet] PIDE- Portugal's secret Police

2013-01-07 Thread Jose Colaco
Bernado, That is NOT entirely true. The ones who are making hay AHORA are your folks inw the Shinese! The irony of all this is that almost ALL of the folks from East Africa who shouted from the roof tops about Colonialism and were anti-'white' eventually migrated to the UK (which still has

Re: [Goanet] PIDE- Portugal's secret Police

2013-01-06 Thread Mervyn Lobo
Tony Barros wrote:  But the Liberation Commitee  Headquarters which was based in Dar es Salaam  set out to seek all forms  of aid- military and non-military for all liberation movements in Africa - including Nambia (formerly South-West Africa) ,South Africa and Rhodesia (present day Zimbabwe)

[Goanet] PIDE- Portugal's secret Police

2013-01-04 Thread Tony Barros
Hi Folks !   As a student of journalism in north-western Tanzania, I was fortunate to have met the American-trained Anthroplogy Professor and first President of the Mozambican liberation movement- Frelimo when he addressed us during our tour of the capital-Dar es Salaam . That was on  September