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BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Christian Berghänel
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> Im forwarding this message, originating from the "oxiana-list".
>
> /Christian Berghänel, Sweden
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bruno De Cordier <ak_saj@y...>
> To: <oxiana@yahoogroups.com>; <jamuna@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 8:46 PM
> Subject: [oxiana] RFE/RL Features: 'Central Asia: enclave residents
face numerous hurdles'
>
>
> >
> > By Antoine Blua
> >
> > Enclaves are usually small areas of land that belong
> > to one country but actually lie within the borders of
> > another nation. As living in an enclave generally
> > involves many inconveniences, some countries have
> > favored their elimination.
> >
> > For instance, Lithuania gave its Pagiriai enclave to
> > Belarus in the mid-1990s after Minsk agreed to
> > compensate Vilnius with territory adjacent to the
> > Lithuanian border. Many other enclaves still exist,
> > however, partcularly in South and Central Asia. RFE/RL
> > takes a look at the difficulties residents of an
> > Indian and a Kyrgyz enclave are facing in their
> > everyday life.
> >
> >
> > Prague, 4 November 2004 (RFE/RL) -- Sahanz Begum and
> > her family live in a small village in Bangladesh,
> > along the border of an Indian enclave within
> > Bangladesh. Every morning, they wave at their
> > relatives who live across the border in the enclave.
> >
> > "This side, where we are living, is Bangladesh. And
> > that side is India. We have our relatives there. But
> > we can't go there because of the border law," Begum
> > says.
> >
> > Dasiarchhara is a 697-hectare enclave about 3
> > kilometers inside Bangladesh.
> >
> > Reuters news agency reported that its 9,000-strong
> > Indian population has no voting rights. There is
> > virtually no government, schools, police, proper
> > roads, or doctors.
ooh great
hahahahaha
truly
of all these i think only the improper roads might be at all
unsettling to me personally
tho i would gladly pay that small price to get all the others
> > The locals survive through
> > subsistence farming and get no support from the Indian
> > government.
> >
> > Fortunately, Bangladeshis have been helping their
> > Indian neighbors by offering them health services and
> > allowing their children to attend Bangladeshi schools.
> >
> >
> > However, residents can go to the Indian mainland by
> > producing identity cards, but only after seeking
> > permission from border guards on both sides.
> >
> > Dasiarchhara's top official, Nazrul Islam, says his
> > fellow enclave residents are calling for a long-term
> > solution. "We demand that India treat us like we are
> > their people," he says. "They should provide
> > facilities to us or leave us and our lands to the
> > Bangladeshi government. We hope Bangladesh will give
> > us social services and security, and this is the way
> > we want to live."
> >
> > More than 150 enclaves exist along the
> > Indian-Bangladeshi border. Their living conditions are
> > believed to be no better than Dasiarchhara's. In 1974,
> > the two governments agreed they must exchange the
> > enclaves or at least provide corridors to each other's
> > territory. But so far, little has been done.
> >
> > Some 2,500 kilometers northwest of Dasiarchhara, a
> > Kyrgyz enclave located in Central Asia's Ferghana
> > Valley provides another dramatic example of how
> > isolated enclave residents can feel. About 700 people
> > live in the village of Barak, about 13 kilometers
> > inside Uzbek territory.
> >
> > In 1999, Barak was cut off from Kyrgyz territory when
> > Uzbekistan dug up the road leading to the Kyrgyz
> > village of Aktash and blockaded it with concrete
> > blocks. The situation improved last year when Tashkent
> > agreed to reopen the road, where a minibus service is
> > now operating.
> >
> > But Gulnara Elnazarova, who teaches at Barak's
> > secondary school, tells RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service that
> > problems persist. "Everything is fine here. We have
> > plenty of land, and plenty of water," she says. "The
> > only problem we face is the road issue. It is getting
> > better now, thank God. [The Uzbeks] are letting our
> > cars [registered in Barak] go in and out of the
> > village. However, our remote relatives cannot come to
> > us with their cars. Another problem is that we cannot
> > deliver our cotton [to Kyrgyzstan] in time. We are
> > currently keeping our cotton harvest at our homes."
> >
> > Dr. Nick Megoran is a research fellow at the Sidney
> > Sussex College in Britain who visited Barak earlier
> > this year. He says he had to wait a couple of hours in
> > the heat before Uzbek guards along the Barak-Aktash
> > road let him enter the enclave -- a delay residents
> > have to endure regularly.
> >
> > Megoran stresses that road communications are crucial
> > for such a small enclave as Barak. "[In Barak] there's
> > a village school, there's a [cultural center] and
> > there's little shop. But there are no post offices and
> > no government buildings or any other type of
> > employment. There is no bank," he says. "Barak is
> > tiny. Barak is one village (...) dependent on one
> > border connection post. There's only one telephone."
> >
> > Barak is among many enclaves in the Ferghana Valley,
> > which extends into Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and
> > Tajikistan.
> >
> > (Tyntchtykbek Tchoroev, director of RFE/RL's Kyrgyz
> > Service, and Khurmat Babadjanov from RFE/ RL's Uzbek
> > Service contributed to this report
ok
now i have a question
do you think all these people have not created their own reality
nor their own problems