Quoting Hemingway's story about the fisherman and the hugefish that were
nothing more than bones when they were brought ashore. The bigfish were the
colonies and the fisherman is Salazar. It's not worth whitewashingthe true
story.
The mostimportant thing is that Africa expelled the racists.
We are not talking about the Portuguesepeople who on April 25, 2024 took to the
streets to express the joy ofdemocracy.
See the video : https://ensina.rtp.pt/artigo/os-carceres-do-imperio/
Although little documented, the history of the activities ofthe Portuguese
Portuguese police (PIDE) in the colonies, during the EstadoNovo, takes us to a
world of atrocities committed before, but especially afterthe start of the
colonial war. A vast network of jails and work camps weremerciless prisons for
thousands who opposed the regime and theirrepresentatives were never punished.
In 1961, with the start of the war in Angola, the PIDE(International and State
Defense Police) created its own delegations,sub-delegations, posts, mobile
brigades and militias overseas. Contrary to whatwas happening in Portugal, in
Africa the agents were well regarded andconsidered as allies by the racist. The
objective was to persecutethe nationalists and, to this end, they had a vast
system of prisons and workcamps, which were nothing more than concentration
camps.
Tarrafal, on the Cape Verdean island of Santiago, is perhapsthe best-known
prison in the colonies. From 1962 onwards, it opened its doorsagain to house
mainly prisoners linked to the struggles for self-determination,such as
Luandino Vieira or Justino Pinto de Andrade.
But the great atrocities of political jailers extended toother colonies. Cases
such as the Machava prison, in the Mozambican capital,which became known as the
most sinister of overseas prisons, where in the PIDEsection, torture was
everyday life. 12 men were kept in an individual cell. Hedied from
asphyxiation. The barbarity in prisons was rampant and the killingwould go
unnoticed, in Portugal, in the pages of post-revolution justice.
In addition to the jails, the political police createdrecovery centers. Case of
São Nicolau, in Angola, where nationalist guerrillaswere taken, mixed with
populations displaced by the conflict. In these campsthere were prisons, work
zones and even satellite villages. The conditions wereinhumane: cells measuring
20 by 40 meters, with 200 people, sexual rape,various types of torture, burial
of people alive, crucifixions, shootings.
On Sunday, May 5, 2024 at 11:39:02 AM GMT+1, 'Nuno Cardoso da Silva' via
Goa-Research-Net <goa-research-net@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Alberto, I suppose we all agree that colonization is a vile violation of the
rights of the colonized peoples. But it weren't "the heavy losses inflicted by
FRELIMO and the MPLA on Portuguese colonial troops in Mozambique and the North
and East of Angola, which precipitated the events that led to the uprising and
military coup of April 25, 1974 in Portugal." In 1973 the independence forces
in Angola were completely defeated and in Mozambique they were on the way to be
neutralized. Only the situation in Guinea Bissau was problematic, and the 1974
uprising was exclusively due to Spinola and the officers in Guinea Bissau
wanting to force the Lisbon goverment to accept talking to PAIGC. And, by the
way, I was in June 1973 in Bissau talking to those officers, and while they
openly threatened to take action in Lisbon, once back in Portugal, not one of
them ever mentioned "liberdade" and "democracia" as justifications for the
promised uprising. Those two concepts were quite foreign to professional
officers educated and trained at the Estado Novo military academies. Regards
Nuno Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2024 at 2:42 PM
From: albert...@sapo.pt
To: goa-research-net@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [GRN] Antonio Costa and Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, the president of
Portugal
Paulo. Please do not distort the true history of colonization.
Read, here, some excerpts from the president of Angola in Lisbon. Jornal de
Angola.
He said - Allow me to begin by thanking President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa for
the kind invitation extended to us to participate in the celebrations of the
Fiftieth Anniversary of April 25, 1974.
While the Portuguese people fought against fascism and the Salazar dictatorship
since 1932, we, the African people colonized by Portugal, HAD BEEN FIGHTING
SINCE THE 15TH CENTURY AGAINST PORTUGUESE COLONIZATION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
SUCH AS SLAVERY AND THE PLUNDERING OF OUR WEALTH. WE FOUGHT FOR AN END TO THE
ABUSES, CRIMES AND VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTED BY THE COLONIALIST
REGIME AGAINST OUR PEOPLE FOR CENTURIES. WE FOUGHT FOR OUR DIGNITY AS HUMAN
BEINGS, WHO MUST HAVE THE SAME RIGHT TO FREEDOM, THE RIGHT TO BE THE MASTERS OF
OUR OWN DESTINY.
The armed struggles for our Independence in Guinea Bissau, Angola and
Mozambique have reached such an advanced stage, especially after the failure of
the Mar Verde operation, the assassination of Amílcar Cabral and the
proclamation of Independence by the PAIGC in the hills of Madina de Boé in 1973
in Guinea Bissau, the fiasco of the Nó Górdio operation and RegardsAlberto
I think I will agree with Nuno.Portugal enriched itself with spices early in
time more than it did in more recent times. It benefited mostly due to trade.
It did not rob Goa and its people of anything like others did. And it developed
the place quite well then.The British pillaged more stuff from India like gold,
diamonds and other precious stones, tea, etc.The Spanish were terrible, it was
mostly gold and silver from their South American possessions that impoverished
these nations.The French were worse, besides all the above, they have signed
contracts with places like Haiti to have the colonies pay for damages to the
slave owning colonisers! They are still paying a 1825 debt today, no wonder
they are bankrupt.Being born in Angola and grown up in Goa too, life in
Portuguese colonies was different from those of other European powers then. In
Angola were we lived it was paradise and the black people had also equal rights
and quality of life. No discrimination like the British did in India and the
French and Spanish did elsewhere.One of the major contributions to Goa, the
amazing drainage system, was destroyed by these BJP corrupt politicians who
invent new ways to swindle the population.India needs to do reparations to Goa
for the damage it is doing to the state and for the money it is robbing its
people.Modern colonisers.JPFrom: 'Nuno Cardoso da Silva' via Goa-Research-Net
<goa-research-net@googlegroups.com>
Sent: 26 April 2024 07:56
To: goa-research-net@googlegroups.com <goa-research-net@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [GRN] Antonio Costa and Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, the president of
Portugal Yes, throughout the centuries Portugal comitted crimes. Just like
every other country on Earth. But we also helped to build. Without Portugal
there would be no Goan State in India, and Goans would be a lot different, not
necessarily better. Without Portugal there wouldn't be a great nation such as
Brazil. There wouldn't be a great Angolan state, with a strong sense of
identity, with a prosperous economy built on much of what Portugal built over
four and a half centuries. There wouldn't have been a tolerant Timorese nation,
so different from Indonesia. There wouldn't have been a marvellously mixed
nation such a Cape Verde, where the colour of skin is completely irrelevant. We
took a lot away from those countries, but I believe we gave back a lot more
than we took. No reparations are needed. Nuno Cardoso da Silva Sent:
Thursday, April 25, 2024 at 11:56 AMFrom: "'Pedro Mascarenhas' via
Goa-Research-Net" <goa-research-net@googlegroups.com>To: "Goa-Research-Net"
<goa-research-net@googlegroups.com>Subject: [GRN] Antonio Costa and Marcelo
Rebelo de Sousa, the president of PortugalThe Portugal’s president, Marcelo
Rebelo de Sousa, expressed some opinions at an event with foreign journalists
on Tuesday . ( In the month in which 50 years of democracy in Portugal -
25/04/2024)
He said António Costa, former prime-minister, son of a Goan, as someone
reflective, the result of eastern ancestry, while Luís Montenegro, the new
prime-minister, is “completely different”.
The head of state did not fail to analyze himself in this aspect. “I’m a
hurried Westerner,” he defined.
The statement about Montenegro came when he explained how he saw the change of
Government ahead of schedule. “He [Luís Montenegro] is a person who comes from
a deep, urban-rural country, with rural behaviors. He is very curious,
difficult to understand, precisely because of this.
Marcelo added that he “would be happy” and accustomed to António Costa's
governance until 2026, but the dissolution of Parliament was necessary given
his resignation as prime minister and secretary-general of the Socialist Party
(PS).
In the interview with foreign journalists, the President of Portugal, Marcelo
Rebelo de Sousa declared late on Tuesday that Portugal was responsible for
crimes committed during transatlantic slavery and the colonial era, indicating
a necessity for reparations.
https://www.dn.pt/6486274197/marcelo-faz-analises-e-comparacoes-entre-costa-e-luis-montenegro/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/24/portugal-pay-costs-slavery-colonialism-president
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