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.
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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..
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- 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
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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.
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