Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Walls From Around The World.

 Why India Is Building The Longest Border Wall In The World - Seeker

Jan 11, 2019 - India is currently in the process of building the world's longest border wall along their 2,500 mile border with Bangladesh. The wall is made of double-fence barbed wire and requires a police force of 70,000 to guard it. The main point of these intense security measures is to keep Bangladeshi immigrants out of India.               The India-Bangladesh Wall: Lessons for Trump

Bangladesh to erect barbed wire fence on border with India

DG of BGB, Major General Ahmed said that his government has already approved a project to have a 282 km road along the border it shares with India and Myanmar.

Updated: Jul 12, 2018, 08.13 PM IST                                                                         Ahmed said as India has already raised fence along 79 per cent of the Indo-Bangla border, it "indirectly helps" his country in checking cross-border crimes.

Ahmed said as India has already raised fence along 79 per cent of the Indo-Bangla border, it "indirectly helps" his country in checking cross-border crimes.
                                https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/bangladesh-to-erect-barbed-wire-fence-on-border-with-india/articleshow/54508281.cms                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Other notable examples: Other notable examples: 

  • Morocco: A 1,700-mile sand wall fortified and surrounded by millions of land mines was built by Morocco in 1975 along disputed, ungoverned territory on its border with Western Sahara.
Melilla sits on the north coast of Africa, surrounded by the waters and territory of Morocco. For the ceaseless tide of African and Asian migrants working their way northwards, it has a compulsive attraction: by accident of military conquest more than 500 years ago, this city which is geographically African is legally part of Spain. As the migrants reach the Mediterranean, where so many of their predecessors have died, Melilla offers them a safe bridge into Europe – if they can smuggle themselves across its barricaded perimeter.                                                                                                                   The Ceuta-Morocco border fence, as seen from Ceuta.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/apr/17/melilla-migrants-eu-spain-morocco                                               
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  • Spain: More than two decades ago, the Spanish government built 20-foot concrete barriers to wall off Melilla and Ceuta, Spanish-administered enclaves in Morocco since the 15th century, to increase border security against African migrants.

Spain built fences 20 years ago to keep migrants away. Here's how that worked out                         

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/migrants-spain-melilla-morocco-europe-1.4835930
    
 Turkey:  A buffer zone splits the island of Cyprus and its capital Nicosia between Turkey and Greece. Nicosia is arguably the last city in the world physically separated by a wall.                                              

                                                               Syria-Turkey border wall completed

The partition was built to tighten security and combat illegal crossings and smuggling                                                                                                                     https://www.thenational.ae/world/mena/syria-turkey-border-wall-completed-1.738637T                                                                                                                                                                        Turkey completes first phase of 900km                             Image result for Syria-Turkey border wall completed 

France: The mile-long wall at Calais was funded by the United Kingdom to prevent migrants from accessing the Channel Tunnel that connects Britain to continental Europe.

 As Migrants Reach U.K. by Boat, Numbers Are Small but Worry Is Big    great wall of calais            https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/742979/great-wall-of-calais-completed-concrete-barrier-british-funded-france                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Finland: About 450 miles of barbed wire fencing prevent reindeer from wandering across the border into Russia.

Saudi Arabia: In 2014, Saudi Arabia built a 550-mile-long wall with Iraq, a response to the rise of the Islamic State militants sweeping across parts of that country.


Saudi Arabia Is Building A 600-Mile 'Great Wall' To Shield Itself From ISIS
Jan 14, 2015 - 14, 2015, 3:46 PM ... The Saudis are building a 600-mile-long "Great Wall" — a combined fence and ditch — to separate ... Plans for the 600-mile wall and ditch Saudi Arabia will build with Iraq in an effort to insulate itself from ISIS.                                 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPZ0eif9NQw  

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