it is true there were some ghost btcn clave claims in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/6930
& yikes even a living btnp clave claim there too
but never any real hard data
the believable stuff seems concentrated in the links
to
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/15198
&
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/11743
where maps & agreements are indicated
but never any actual mention of claves
--- chris schulz <
23568@...> wrote:
> I think, Len once mentioned something about it.
> How about you, Len?
> Can you remember, what you heard / read about these
> enclaves?
>
> Regards, Chris
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: aletheia kallos
> To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 6:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Bhutan enclaves
>
>
> great to hear from you lucas this great news
> however long in coming
>
> positively fantastic development
>
> those are remote & sparse areas that could well
> have
> remained practically undisturbed & essentially
> forgotten these 44 years
>
> at the same time
> both nehru & jigme dorji wangchuk are certainly
> long
> departed
> so
> more or less as they predicted
> any formerly discontiguous parts that bhutan may
> have
> had do at least appear to have been occupied by
> china
> over their dead bodies
>
> & of course we at least have been completely
> unaware
> of any such probabilities til now
> simply because all the public border announcements
>
> including the most recent one posted here
> yesterday
> havent mentioned them
> & on the contrary just imply or actually refer to
> the
> single continuous btcn boundary line presently in
> progress
>
> so i would guess
> de facto
> which is what really counts anyway
> these claves are very probably dead too
>
>
> & yet
> & yet
> they could also just be lost islands of shangri la
> ahaha
> what fun
>
> thank you very much indeed
>
> a hi priority research area to be sure
>
> --- Lucas <lucas_v1@...> wrote:
>
> > Dear members,
> >
> > Though I didn't post for a long time, I noticed
> > something strange in
> > an old article. "Keesing's World Events" reports
> the
> > following:
> >
> > "August 1961 - INDIA - SIKKIM - BHUTAN
> >
> > Maharaja of Bhutan's Visit to Delhi.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > Mr. Nehru reaffirmed his previous assurances
> that
> > any aggression
> > against Bhutan would be regarded as aggression
> > against India. [About
> > 300 square miles of northern and north-eastern
> > Bhutan, including
> > some enclaves surrounded by Tibetan territory,
> are
> > shown on Chinese
> > maps as Chinese territory, although the Chinese
> > Government has made
> > no attempt to occupy them.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > Describing China's claims to Bhutanese territory
> as
> > "a mistake which
> > I hope they will correct," he [The Maharajah of
> > Bhutan] said that
> > China would be allowed to occupy any part of
> Bhutan
> > "only over our
> > dead bodies." "
> >
> > How would you comment? Do these enclaves still
> > exist? Any infos
> > would be appreciated. Sadly, I cannot offer
> links,
> > since this is a
> > subscription service.
> >
> > Lucas
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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