Hmmm - what's so different from what has been said prior to the invasion of 1961? The lies appears to abound.
Check http://www.mail-archive.com/goanet@lists.goanet.org/msg36570.html BTW, I understand Sir Walter Crocker's book has recently been reprinted in India. --- Arthur Rubinoff's "India's use of Force in Goa" ... "What followed was an intense but often inaccurate and self-contradictory press campaign designed to make it appear as though Portugal was giving India provocation for an attack. In reality, this clumsy endeavour served to discredit the Indian position... It was reported in the daily [Indian] press that Goa was an armed camp of 12,000 troops, where roads were mined and bridges guarded. In addition, the preposterous claim was advanced that Radio Goa threatened to bomb Indian cities. Indeed, it was even asserted ... that the Portuguese troops raided a village inside the Indian border.". The book states that the magazine "Link" also published an imaginative story so as to rouse up people on the Indian side, such as "... mass-arrests, flogging and locking up of people unable to comply with army orders". The reality, was of course to seek an excuse to take action in Goa. The book further states that "From what they [international journalists] saw, the journalists painted a far different picture than the one presented by the Indian Government". Sir Walter Crocker, the then Australian ambassador to India, in his book "Nehru - A Contemporary's Estimate", writes "Certain foreign newspapers of standing, like New York Times, the Baltimore Sun, the Daily Telegraph, and the Times, happened to have their correspondents, responsible and trained observers, in Goa at this time ... What struck them all were the lies - 'fantastic lies' was the term used to me by two of them - about the internal situation in Goa being poured out over the Indian radio and in the Indian press prior to and during the invasion. Some of the correspondents doubted if there were any volunteers [supposed to be between 15,000-20,000 volunteers and Goa commandoes at Belgaum ready to invade Goa] at Belgaum at all. One thought there might have been a handful there, mostly clerks and minor political types brought down from Bombay and dressed up for the occasion, for photographic propaganda purposes." ... "Most of the Indian newspapers did their best to glorify the invasion, including spreading misinformation about the Portuguese, such as that they had carried out a 'scorched earth policy'. Indian journalists in fact were not allowed into Goa for nearly a week after the invasion.". --- ----- Original Message ---- > From: Frederick Noronha <fredericknoron...@gmail.com> > To: Ashwin Tombat <edi...@herald-goa.com>; "Goa's premiere mailing list, > estb. >1994!" <goanet@lists.goanet.org>; opin...@herald-goa.com > Sent: Tue, 9 November, 2010 9:03:52 PM > Subject: [Goanet] For OPINON: Goa: the stereotype capital of India (FN) > Devil's >Advocate > > Please convert *Words Within Asterisk* into italics. FN > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > Goa: the stereotype capital of India > > By Frederick Noronha | Devil's Advocate > > This is getting more than a trifle tiresome now. Whenever the "national" > media is short of some sensation, they descend on Goa, string together a > series of facts, spice it up with some quotes, and create a salacious story > out of it. > _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ _/ tambdimati: the Goa review is a community blog of original _/ art, writing, music, news and commentary from and about the _/ smallest state in the subcontinent. check out the newest _/ member of the Goanet family daily at _/ http://www.tambdimati.com. _/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/