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Goa communal violence was
pre-planned: probe report
http://www.theindiancatholic.com/news_read.asp?nid=1420
April 7, 2006
Panaji (ICNS) -- A fact finding report on the communal
violence which rocked Goa in March says it was “well-planned
strategy by political forces.”
The All India
Milli Council (AIMC) that conducted the probe has called upon
the government to bring out a white paper, to tell the people
the truth about the violence in the twin towns of Sanvordem
and Curchorem.
Addressing a press conference here, Supreme Court human rights
lawyer Nandita Haksar said that the report “was to probe the
root causes of communal violence.”
Attributing the violence to the rise of the “communal
politics”, the report titled Broken Peace prepared by a four
member team appointed by AIMC revealed that the violence was
part of a well planned strategy by political forces to
communalise Goan society.
The report
covers the rise of communal politics in Goa, human rights
violations of Muslims in Goa, the damaged mosques at Socorro
and Ekta Nagar, Mapusa, both areas north of the Panaji.
With reference
to the speeches made by the BJP party members, the report
mentions that BJP members including the ex-chief minister
Manohar Parrikar and local BJP MLA Ramrao Desai continue to
spread the disinformation not only about the actual incident
but about Muslims in general.
"They are
fuelling hatred and anger against the Muslims by telling
blatant lies, spreading false rumours and making defamatory
statements," it said.
Referring to
Parrikar’s speech on March 4, it mentions that “the former
chief minister did not attempt to console the Muslims and his
speech sent out the message that people responsible for the
violence are the victims themselves.”
On the role of
the administration during the violence, Haksar and her team
mentioned that “the civil administration has not acted with
the responsibility that is expected of them."
"It is true
that the police did offer protection to Muslims gathered
inside the Curchorem mosque when the violence started. However
they failed to protect the property of the Muslims," it said.
The report
further mentions that “the Congress party has no programme for
countering the communalism and many of its MLAs and members
are former members of the BJP."
The team
has asked the government to have a programme against
communalism and initiate a public debate on the issue of
growing number of immigrants, besides recommending some
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Keith Vaz delivers lecture at Goa University
PANJIM: Keith Vaz, Member of Parliament, United Kingdom,
delivered a lecture organised under the Goa University lecture
series on the topic "Globalisation and New Technology". Vaz
stressed upon the importance and benefits of new technology of
information, which are available through various sources like
Telecommunications
and Internet and other similar technology in the world as a
whole. He also spoke on how telecommunications and Internet
develop relations between individuals, countries, and benefits
trade and business all over the world. Vaz also gave details
of "The Merlyn Vaz Scholarship 2007" constituted in his
mother's name, which enables a teacher from Goa, an
opportunity to teach in Primary School in Leicester, UK, for a
short duration and includes accommodation, food and travel
expenses as well as a sightseeing tour of United Kingdom.
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Turning back the clock
Vagator Beach
He believes that for writing fiction, it is necessary for a
writer to journey back into his childhood. That probably is
one of the reasons that writer Victor Rangel-Ribeiro loves
coming back to
Goa
from his home in America. "You get innumerable stories from
the little incidents and the many characters from the past -
your own uncles and aunts are the most
amazing characters. That was the tip given to me by renowned
writer, Mulk Raj Anand, and because of him I became a serious
writer," says the 80-year-old award-winning fiction writer,
Victor Rangel-Ribeiro. Writing was his hobby right from
childhood and this also led Ribeiro to start a writers' club
during his college days in Mumbai, said the writer while
reading from his book "Tivolem" at Cafe Literati in Calangute.
(Arti Das, GT) |
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Work for
uplift of Konkani, Goans urged
MARGAO,
Apr 10: The chief guest for Fr Freddy J da Costa Writer's
award, Mr Zito Almeida, said Goans had to work in tandem for
the uplift of Konkani language without discriminating it on
the basis of script. While presenting the award for the year
2005 to Mr John Gomes Kokoy, Mr Almeida said, "Roman script
has a first place in the Goans' heart and the young generation
has to stress more on Roman script. The felicitation function
was organised by the Dalgado Konknni Akademy. Mr Tomazinho,
who spoke on the occasion, said that late Fr Freddy was a good
writer and had worked hard to bring up the Konkani language
through his writings. The award winner, Mr Kokoy, said that
Roman script was an international script and needed to be
honoured in our own state. "All our youngsters should focus on
Konkani language and Roman script in particular," said Mr
Kokoy, who has written and swung over 3,000 songs besides his
several acclaimed tiatrs. (NT) |
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TWO MAJOR MINING HOUSES
in Goa,
VM Salgaocar and VS
Dempo have joined hands to launch a new transshipper (these
play a key role in the ore export trade) and it has been
called M V Goan Pride. Large newspaper adverts, particularly
in the mining linked section of the Goa media, congratulate
both firms on the launch of the transshipper by chief
minister Pratapsing Rane on Tuesday. Yesterday's papers
highlighted the visits by teams from Japan, South Korea and
China -- all major iron-ore importers from Goa. Navhind says
the "state-of-art" technology was used to create the
new-generation transshipper with a storage capacity of
123,000 tonnes in her holds and a loading capacity of about
75,000 tonnes per day. It has the the capacity to load
Panamax vessels in one day and larger-sized cape vessles of
upto 300,000 DWT in three to four days, brining Goa "at par
with the loading facilities of leading iron ore exporting
countries like Australia and Brazil". (Navhind Times) |
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FROM G. O. A. NSW
NEWSLETTER
Feb/ March 2007 details at
http://www.our-goa-nsw.org/
Posted By: "r.barreto" <goanint@yahoo.co.uk>
On: "Goans_Tanzanite" <goans_tanzanite@yahoogroups.com>;
On 20th August 2006, Goans from
all over the world will celebrate World Goa Day. The
Executive committee is looking to form a sub-committee to
make this a fun dayincluding spiritual, cultural and social
events including the traditional Goencho Bazaar.If you have
the talent and are willing to share it for the greater good
ofyour community,please contact me now. It will be a day to
remember, as our true Goan spiritwill be on display. Help us
be ‘Proud to be Goan’.
Deu borem corum
Tony Colaco,Vice President, GOA NSW Inc.
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