India Accused Of Genocide In Goa

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30886, 20 October 1965, Page 21

India Accused Of Genocide In Goa

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright)

NEW YORK, Oct. 19.

Portugal accused India in a letter published yesterday of carrying out a “well calculated scheme for the genocide of Goans” in the former Portuguese enclave.

Dr. Alberto Franco Noguiera, Foreign Minister of Portugal, was replying in a letter to the President of the General Assembly to “certain highly misleading affirmations” by an Indian delegate in the Assembly last week on Portugal’s overseas policies. Referring to the Indian take-over in December, 1961. of Goa, on the west coast of India, Dr. Noguiera said “the Indian Union representative did not find it advantageous nor comfortable to him to mention Goa, a flagrant case of unprovoked and carefullypremeditated aggression committed by his Government.” Aggression Alleged

India, Dr. Noguiera said, had “systematically trampled under foot for the last 18 years all canons of international law and good conduct.” He charged India with “an act of aggression” by invading West Pakistan on September 5 this year. He said that in Goa unemployment was now rampant and food short. He “preventive detention, accompanied by torture, is enforced for indefinite periods. There is a wholesale denial of fundamental human rights. “In short, there are here all the ingredients of a well-

calculated scheme for the genocide of Goans being put into execution by the Government of New Delhi, while the world and the United Nations Organisation stands by silent.”