Bangladesh India Border : ce qu'il faut savoir

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Les faits

• India wants to the border with Bangladesh badly — even if it takes venomous snakes or crocodiles.
• New Delhi, India – Indian officials have floated a controversial plan to introduce apex predators such as crocodiles and venomous snakes into riverine stretches along the Bangladesh border, to act as natural deterrents against undocumented migration and smuggling in places where erecting fencing is difficult.
• India’s 4,096km-long (2,545-mile) border with Bangladesh runs through some challenging terrain – and New Delhi has found some stretches impossible to fence.
• In an internal communication dated March 26, India’s Border Security Force (BSF), which patrols international borders with Pakistan and Bangladesh, ordered personnel at its headquarters on the eastern and northeastern fronts to explore “the feasibility of deploying reptiles in vulnerable riverine gaps”.
• India's Border Security Force faces a backlash over a "sinister" proposal to deploy crocodiles and venomous snakes as natural deterrents in riverine gaps along the Bangladesh border.

L'essentiel

Dans le détail, New Delhi, India – Indian officials have floated a controversial plan to introduce apex predators such as crocodiles and venomous snakes into riverine stretches along the Bangladesh border, to act as natural deterrents against undocumented migration and smuggling in places where erecting fencing is difficult.

Sur le fond, India’s 4,096km-long (2,545-mile) border with Bangladesh runs through some challenging terrain

Concrètement, In an internal communication dated March 26, India’s Border Security Force (BSF), which patrols international borders with Pakistan and Bangladesh, ordered personnel at its headquarters on the eastern and northeastern fronts to explore “the feasibility of deploying reptiles in vulnerable riverine gaps”.

Au-delà de ce constat, India's Border Security Force faces a backlash over a "sinister" proposal to deploy crocodiles and venomous snakes as natural deterrents in riverine gaps along the Bangladesh border.

Reste à préciser que the government’s latest move to fence the border with Bangladesh has alarmed human rights activists and wildlife conservationists alike in India.

Les chiffres

À noter par ailleurs : the partition of British India in 1947 sliced through the region of Bengal, with people on either side of the border still sharing cultural and ethnic roots.

Plus précisément, New Delhi has fenced nearly 3,000km of the border.

Dans la foulée, In the state of Assam, for example, Choudhury said, India set up foreign tribunal courts – quasi-judicial bodies established to determine whether a person suspected of being an illegal migrant is a “foreigner” or an Indian citizen under the Foreigners Act of 1946.

À ce stade, Security along the 4000-kilometre border, which runs through plains, hills, forests and rivers, has been a contentious topic for decades.

Ce qui se dit

“It is the Achilles’ heel in the India-Bangladesh border: the river,” he told Al Jazeera. “This core impulse comes from the fact that the BSF has always found that the river on the border is practically impossible to fence.”

“This would be hilarious if it weren’t sinister and dangerous,” said Angshuman Choudhury, a researcher with a focus on northeastern and eastern Indian border states. “It’s absurd, right?”

“This [targeting Muslim Indians] is also a way of continuously keeping Bengali Muslims in the sense of ongoing dread that they might be stripped of citizenship and rendered stateless,” Mander added.

Le contexte

Reste à préciser que the India-Bangladesh border runs along the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura, Assam, Meghalaya and Mizoram.

À noter par ailleurs : Crocodiles are not native to the riverine stretches along the India-Bangladesh border, Rathin Barman, chief of strategy and liaison at the Wildlife Trust of India, told Al Jazeera.

Plus précisément, the swampy stretches along the India-Bangladesh border are also prone to flooding, which could result in poisonous snakes spreading into residential areas, exposing the local communities, particularly those involved in fishing, to grave risk.

Dans la foulée, INDIA’S BORDER SECURITY FORCE (BSF) is exploring an idea: releasing crocodiles and venomous snakes along riverine stretches of the country’s border with Banglad.

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Recherches associées

Plusieurs requêtes connexes accompagnent ce sujet : Des marchés sous surveillance • L'Inde envisage d'utiliser des serpents et des crocodiles à la frontière avec le Bangladesh • Le district de Gomati au Tripura renforce les règles à la frontière indo-bangladaise face aux alertes sécuritaires • L'Inde redoute une escalade des tensions au Bangladesh et une instabilité aux frontières • Hot Take : Élections en Inde • Tous les accords sont respectés, déclare l'Inde alors qu'elle convoque le Haut-commissaire par intérim du Bangladesh au sujet du problème de clêture à la frontière.

À retenir

• India’s 4,096km-long (2,545-mile) border with Bangladesh runs through some challenging terrain – and New Delhi has found some stretches impossible to fence.
• The government’s latest move to fence the border with Bangladesh has alarmed human rights activists and wildlife conservationists alike in India.
• The India-Bangladesh border runs along the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura, Assam, Meghalaya and Mizoram.
• Recherches qui explosent : Des marchés sous surveillance, L'Inde envisage d'utiliser des serpents et des crocodiles à la frontière avec le Bangladesh, Le district de Gomati au Tripura renforce les règles à la frontière indo-bangladaise face aux alertes sécuritaires, L'Inde redoute une escalade des tensions au Bangladesh et une instabilité aux frontières.