Subject: IndPak & IndBang & tourism<br/>
Date: Jul 20, 2001 @ 04:14<br/>
Author: Brendan Whyte (&quot;Brendan Whyte&quot; &lt;brwhyte@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-52606747">Particularly for Dallen if he&#39;s still with us:<br/>
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For a nice photo of two ceremonial border guards at the border crossing of <br/>
India-Pakistan, and a description of the tourist spectacle lowering of the <br/>
flags there each night, see Time, 1 Sept 1997, pp37-41, an article by Maseeh <br/>
Rahman, titled &quot;Separated at birth&quot;. Another photo is of an Indian border <br/>
guard leaning out of his watchtower in the evening, with the barbed wirte <br/>
fence, border road and fence lights in the background. A third shot is of <br/>
the crowd who arrive to gawp at the &quot;other&quot; across the one border crossing <br/>
between the two vcountries.  Also described is the death of a man on the <br/>
fence wire. It is electrified, and during a blackout he tried to crawl <br/>
across, but the backup generators came on and he fried.<br/>
Total cost of the fence : US$85,000 per km, two 3m high barbed wire fences <br/>
with concertina wire (razor wire??) in between. 5 electric wires at <br/>
different hieghts, and sodium vapur lamps.<br/>
<br/>
At border pillar 2033 in Tripura, Nazir Rahman Bhutia&#39;s home is divided by <br/>
the Indo-Bangladesh boundary, which the Indians also want to fence. The BSF <br/>
(Border Security Force) want to reove all within 500m of the boundary in <br/>
order to fence it, as the fence must be 150m behind the zero line.<br/>
<br/>
BW<br/>
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