Word: bangladeshis
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...agree on exchanging the territory or even just accepting the de facto border as it is. "For Bangladesh, every inch is important," particularly as it loses ground to rising sea levels, says Sreeradha Datta, a political scientist at the Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses in New Delhi. Bangladeshis in the area understandably bristle at the idea of being fenced in. "There are 17 companies of BSF here," says Mohammed Nazrul Islam, 37, a Bangladeshi who lives in one of the enclaves. "If the fencing is erected, in 20 or 30 years, then what will they do? Will they also...
...years Bangladeshi authorities denied any active jihadist movement within its borders. That stance changed in 2005 when a local jihadist group, Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen, took credit for an audacious attack in which bombs were detonated in about one hour in all but one of Bangladesh's 64 districts. The incident forced Bangladesh's leaders to acknowledge the country's internal terrorist threat. Indian intelligence and BSF officials say that Dhaka is not doing enough to stop Bangladeshi jihadist groups in the border areas from crossing into India. But the victory in Bangladesh's Dec. 29 general election of the secular...
...ground, the prospects for cooperation are even worse. "Bangladesh is definitely a sanctuary for extremist groups," says a Bangladeshi human-rights researcher who has worked on the border. But the curfews, surveillance and other techniques of "border domination," as the BSF calls it, have had the effect of increasing sympathy among the border population for terrorists. The researcher adds: "India has alienated a large section of people who think that India is our enemy." The Bangladesh human-rights group Odhikar estimates that 62 Bangladeshis were killed by Indian border guards in 2008 - about one every six days. "Bangladesh and India...
...depots, and usually bought by the same smugglers, sometimes three or four times. Moving a cow from one end of India to the other is perfectly legal, but it becomes contraband as soon as it hits the border. Once over the fence, it's legal again and taxed by Bangladeshi authorities...
...gate several meters wide, accompanied by a bizarre set of rituals. The Indian bus lets its passengers off on one side of the checkpoint, and they board a bus owned by a partner company on the other. The luggage passes from the hands of Indian porters to their waiting Bangladeshi counterparts. The new train service linking Kolkata with Dhaka goes through Petrapole with a similar bit of theater. It spends five hours within one kilometer of the border, disgorging passengers and luggage and subjecting them to immigration and customs twice...