The fence India is building along its 4000km Bangladesh border is 125m back
fomr the 'zero line', as an early agreement denied the use of a 250m buffer
zone for 'defensive works'. This means that Indian farmers in the
borderlands are foerced to work in their fields beyond the fence and its
gates, so that in the event of trouble, guess who can't escape? The very
people the Indians should be protecting! Further problems are met when the
boundary runs through villages, and half the villag,e the INdian part, is
left beyond the pale as it were.
So the Indians want to relocate people behind the fence to 'protect' them.
BW
>From: Dallen Timothy <dtimothy@...>
>Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>To: "'BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com'" <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
>Subject: RE: [BoundaryPoint] US-Mexico photos
>Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 14:25:09 -0700
>
>That's correct, and I think it's only one of the very few (if there are any
>others) where the fence is precisely on the border. I haven't been to that
>poin since about 1991, at which time it was simply a chain-link fence that
>ended about 15 feet from the water. The pictures we've all seen recently
>show the new steel fence going quite a distance into the ocean.
>
>Dallen
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bill Hanrahan [mailto:hanrahan@...]
>Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 2:20 PM
>To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: RE: [BoundaryPoint] US-Mexico photos
>
>
>Come to think of it, you're probably right Dallen...I guess a good example
>would be the large monument near the beach in the Imperial Beach-Tijuana
>area: from the photos I've seen, the fence line appears to physically
>intersect the center of the monument.
>
>Bill
>
>At 05:04 PM 6/13/01, you wrote:
>
>
>Bill, I was thinking that the brackets on the one monument were for a fence
>line--maybe at one time the fence was actually attached to the the boundary
>marker at that point. I don't know. When you come or a visit, we'll ask
>around.
>Dallen
>
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