-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Wishing all Goanetters | | a Prosperous | | and | | Happy New Year - 2006 | | Goanet - http://www.goanet.org | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Anthony and Nolette de Souza wrote: > > Hi, Bernardo! > > It might be of interest to you that there had been for > centuries a bilateral agreement between Britain and Portugal > according to which one country would go to the aid of the > other in case of attack. Yet when India attacked Goa by > land, sea and air in 1961, Britain did not lift a finger to > help. Moreover, the British Government did not even lodge a > protest. Instead in order to please India, she rushed to > recognize the takeover. > Mario observes: > It find it hard to believe that people are writing such stuff in the year 2006. The British-Portuguese treaty is for attacks on the respective countries, not to eject a recalcitrant colonial power like Portugal from an illegal colony, which had overstayed it's post-colonial welcome by over a decade and was trying to fool people that Goa was an "overseas province". > Anthony or Nolette write: > > Therefore, to a great extent, Anglo-Saxons are responsible for > the Indian Occupation of Goa* and for the plight we Goans are > in: viz., a people without rights in their own country. > Mario observes: > Anthony or Nolette, as an Indian-Goan who grew up in India and is now an American I'd like to know what "plight we Goans are in" in Goa, while you live in Anglo-Saxon developed and dominated Australia? What "rights" don't you have in Goa or India? > Anthony or Nolette write: > > Anglos are responsible for Goa's being in the sorry state > which she is in today; in fact, Goans have very few favours to > thank them for. If Britain has a Goan presence there, it's no > big deal. Anglos sold us out but they cannot buy us. > Mario observes: > Hey, that was then, this is now. Get over it and get on with your lives. The Anglos were the first to de-colonize in the 20th Century, with some pressure but a minimum of mayhem, relative to when the US kicked them out by force. Anglos had nothing at all to do with Goa, which was an undeveloped colonial backwater when the Portuguese were kicked out. How can you even presume to talk about whatever state Goa is in when you don't even live there. What do you care?
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