Where's the World's Expressions of Despair Over India's Fence?

We’ve all heard of the Great Wall of China, I hope, built to keep out the invading barbarian hordes.  The Berlin Wall, built to keep freedom at bay and ensure a slave populace for the commies.  And of course, most individuals are aware of the stink being raised about Israel’s fence, built to hamper Palestinian incursions into Israel.  But did you know that India is building a fence also, along the Pakistan border and Bangledesh border?

On the Pakistan fence.

"The fence is part of India’s ambitious project to seal its entire 1,800-mile border with Pakistan. Even as India embarks on a peace process with its rival this summer, the massive effort has come to illustrate the deep suspicion, hostility and paranoia that have bedeviled relations between the nuclear neighbors for more than half a century."

On the Bangledesh fence.

"The sensitive stretches along the 4,894-kilometer (3,034-mile) India-Bangladesh border have been fenced,” said S.I.S. Ahmed, a senior official of the Border Security Force deployed on the Bangladesh border.

“It is nearly 35 percent of the total stretch and the remaining portion will be completed by 2007,” Ahmed said.

Though I hate to display my ignorance, this is the first I’ve heard about India’s fence.  I wonder why it doesn’t rate the same condemnation that Israel’s fence does?

Link via Razib, at Gene Expression, who links to a radio segment on India’s fence building along the Bangledesh border.

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