Some folk may say forget the past, some may say no, we need to know even if its
too awful to contemplate, we must know. Let us set up a Truth & Reconciliation
programe to name & shame those who lived through these times & persecuted us.
Some of us need to know for personal reasons, some of us dont want things
made public because some of us know or have heard the awful truth, their family
was in collaboration with the pre-1961 regime.
Some nations have ensured the past is never forgotten, for the damage done to
their nation, and have put up plaques & named squares & gardens in honour of
their dead heroes. But for one nation's hero, the same person is a terrorist
for another nation.
Some nations, but one nation in particular, which came into being at the same
time as India's Independence from British rule, the Jewish nation in Israel cry
out for recognition of the terrible things done to their peoples whilst not
having a homeland of their own, were resident all over the world, were
persecuted to point of extinction, so they say dont put the past to one side,
in case it repeats itself again in the future.
That may have occured a couple of generations ago, but I was born only 3
years after India's Independence and was eleven & half years old when
PORTUGUESE rule finally came to an end in Goa, but the wars & battles that have
been fought all over the world have been for the same reason, money.
The link is money........... think about it, Goa is currently (actually for a
very long time from what I gather on Goanet) is fighting over this, but you
don't see the Goan on the street making the profit, so the fight goes on.....
and on........ and on...........
Lest we forget.................. the atrocities done to us, (us ALL)
John Monteiro
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To Goanet - anand virgincar wrote:
And the absolutely central point to my arguments that follow is :
FORGET WHAT HAPPENED IN GOA PRIOR TO 1961.............
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