Raid on Communidade an eye-wash

(Letter to Editor sent on 26/10/2010)
The latest raid on the Communidade of Serula appears more of an eye wash and a case of political arm twisting. A similar raid was carried out in the year 1999 by the then Administrator of Communidades North Goa after similar complaints were filed by some of us gaunkars of this communidade. Then, the managing committee was immediately suspended and a show-cause was issued for dissolution of the committee on grounds of unaccounted expenditures running into crores. Nothing happened thereafter. Some of the culprits even managed to get re-elected to office and continued the corruption with total impunity.
With several government officers and politicians being part of the corruption and beneficiaries of communidade lands by furnishing false affidavits understating their incomes and concealing other details, can anyone expect justice to be delivered to the gaunkars of Serula? Only a thorough CBI probe into the affairs over the last 25 years will help unearth the massive corruption and expose all the collaborators in crime. Has this government the courage to do this?

-Soter D'Souza
Socorro