Goa ready to fight back for Cipriano

Goa has spoken. And  those who  love Goa have decided that they will not just get on with their lives. Within hours of the Saturday edition of Herald being published, the editorweekend@herald-goa.com inbox had more than 50 emails. That grew during the course of the day. Letters, mails to other email id’s and phone calls pledging support followed.
Every letter condemned the police brutality and the barbaric act of the Goa Police and demanded immediate arrest and prosecution of the guilty officials.
Some spoke about similar harrowing experiences in their lives.
Goans living in Dubai, Doha and Muscat as well as other places, read our online edition and responded quickly. This just goes to show that the Goan heart is stronger than any police stick that rises to torture innocents .
As promised, we will wait for responses throughout the week and will carry them on a full page next Sunday.  We shall chalk out a next course of action and protest and call for action. It will help if lawyers, civil society organizations and others come up with a road map and suggest ways to take this campaign forward. But we must not delay, because there is a fear that passion at times ebbs with the flow of time.
It’s a matter of small consolation, that some politicians, who I had lost touch with, called to say that this movement is important. However, action, not words, will matter.
To start with, I thank all of you who have Cipriano in their thoughts and are ready to fight for his justice.
Please continue to write in at editorweekend@herald-goa.com
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