Dear Marcos, What you have written is totally implausible.
1: there was NO invasion; the Purtuguez soldados just abandoned Goa and left. 2: those liquor cases you saw were kept at the Mandovi for safe-keeping; the Purtuguez would otherwise have swiped them and taken them (along with the gold) to Lisbon. 3: the Sequeira specialty watch shop and other luxury item shops were not ransacked; all the items ESP the Rolex ones were sold out. Those cars which left Goa were taken there for servicing. 4: no rapes occurred; remember, No rapes occur in Bharat, only in India (as the RSS chief says) 5: all the photographs which Dr. Falcao posted, were from the Romi-Konkani tiatr " Usal ani Chau". One of the actors was samko Purtuguez. He was positively identified by amcho Bosco. 6: all this was confirmed by my gaumcar (ex Padre) Judas Barros after he saw the light from the Marx-Aladdin lantern. He apparently did not know this at the time of his ordination - or later when I met him.....on several occasions. Perhaps, he did not tell me because I was too young then to understand these things. 7: so much cleanliness and order has come to Goa after those Purtuguez soldados derepente left Goa. What JoeGoaUk posts is not from a regular camera; Remember, he uses a digital camera. I can bet you that he does not have a film-negative to prove that the photographs are real. 8: that picture showing Rats .... Is from the film Undirmama. Do not know what the ghuspott about that is. Some people eat them, you know. Why should they not be in a restaurant? 9: I can confirm (after reading recent Goan posts) that the Zhogdimcars of Mocambique and Angola embraced peace almost instantaneously after the Purtuguez left. Furthermore, they did not set up shop and move to Lisbon. The folks you see in at the various Pracas, are Siddis who were forcibly taken there by the Purtuguez. If you do not believe, please refer the matter to the nearest Goan historian or journalist. 10: all our zhogdimcars were sent to prison despite of the fact that they were innocent. There were No crimes like subversion, bigamy, dacoity, criminal disorder etc were committed by anyone except the Purtuguez. 11: the fault of the collapsed Mandovi bridge, lies with the Purtuguez....in more ways than one. 12: Goans in Goa were too busy with folgas to notice what was going on in Goem; this is a deficiency not suffered by those who did not live in or visit Goa prior to 1961. 13: grateful IF you guys would heed the suggestion made by Bosco and stop trying to revise history. Please leave that task to historians and other flam artists. jc On Jan 5, 2013, at 11:07 AM, Jean & Marcos Catao <cata...@yahoo.com> wrote: > It was heartening to read the exposition on the unbecoming travails imposed > on some prominent GOANS by the PROCONSUL sent to GOA after Operation VIJAY, > who behaved even more arrogantly than the Roman Cesars. It was specially > encouraging that the courageous expose was not censored. > Adv. Antonio Lobo was gracious enough to confine himself to the problems > faced by some eminent GOANS not delving into the suffering faced by the > general populace at the hands of army personnel in the form of robberies, > rapes, harassment and intimidation, which are widely known perhaps to > survivors of my generation but difficult to raise because of the inevitable > comment that would follow about the lack of validity of speaking in general > terms, without specific instances.However, I do recollect some speciific > cases of which I was a witness or got information from impeccabel sources. > I was in GOA in early January 1962, staying in one of the front rooms of > "Hotel Mandovi". People familiar with the hotel will know it is possible to > peep into the neighbouring room, from the verandah of each front room (facing > the river). My neighbour was a Colonel of the JAT Regiment ( a Sikh) and > piled at the foot of his bed was an array of two layers of alcoholic beverage > boxes rising more than halfway to the ceiling, each containing twelve > bottles. There must have been 16-22 boxes. Obviously, an Indian army > Colonel's emoluments would nothave sufficed to defray the expenses of such a > bonanza!How did they land there? > Then, driving from the hotel to the Patriarchal Palace in Altinho, the taxi > driver pointed out to me the house of a prominent industrialist, with a > gaping hole in thefront wall covered by a makeshift wooden plank, broken > down by invading miscreants intent on robbery. And who has not heard of the > then current jibe that the I.N.S. Mysore almost sank on the way back to > Bombay with the weight of the electronic and other looted goods? > Also, the Portuguese in 1960 had renovated some of the churches in Old Goa, > installing modern sanitary system and equipment.On 21st December, my uncle, > Mons. F.X. Gomes-Catao who, as a Canon had to live in one so as to be able to > participate in the daily Matins & Vespers, was amazed to find some army > personnel breaking the walls in order to carry away wash > basins,comodes,etc!Lucky he was not tempered with! probably because he had > nothing worthwhile beyond his books and manuscripts! > Finally, in semi-humorous vein attesting to the PROCOSUL's "popularity" among > the GOANS of the day, my wife's aunt, a totally apolitical old lady, named > her newly acquired dog after the PROCONSUL, which I thought totally unjust to > the dog, a consuderate and humane animal!!!. > MARCOS GOMES-CATAO
