The land belongs to Bangladesh, but it is within the borders of India, and as long as the people in the village leave the village, they will be treated as illegal entry, beaten by the border police, and even arrested and imprisoned.
The governments on both sides do not want to care about them, can not find jobs, can not go to school, can not see the disease, is the true portrayal of the people in the enclave, there are nearly 200 enclaves on the Border between India and Bangladesh, where do these enclaves come from?
It is said that in connection with the monarchs of two countries, in the eighteenth century, the two monarchs lost these lands to each other as chips on the chessboard, resulting in the territory that should belong to this country, but in the territory of another country, the inhabitants of these territories could not return to their own countries, and could only live a lifelong exile, as a stranger, for hundreds of years, living a miserable life.
The 65-year-old Amir is one of the inhabitants of these enclaves, his family has lived in the enclave for five generations, farming for a living, according to the nature of the enclave, they should be Bengali, but Amir has no feelings for Bengal, all these years, the Bangladeshi government has never managed them, the Indian government regards them as enemies.
Eleven years ago, Amir desperately tried to go out to find a job because of the poor harvest of the rice fields, but as soon as he reached the border, he was arrested by the defense forces, because Amir had no identity certificate at all, it was illegal entry, the enclave and other territories bordered by the gray area, where people here will step on landmines if they are not careful.
Amir was not only beaten by the Indian police, but also spent three years in prison, and finally, forced out by the Commission on Human Rights on hunger strikes, people in the enclave could not go to the market, could not sell goods, had no roads, no water and electricity, could not send their children to school, and if they wanted their children to be educated, they had to spend money or find a relationship to create a fake identity of the locals.
Amir has not been educated for generations, but he hopes that his grandson will have a chance to study, so Amir has spent a lot of effort to create a false identity for his grandson, and now, the grandson has to hike five kilometers a day to attend primary schools in India, but once this is discovered, Amir may face jail time again, and the people on the enclave have been living duckweed-like lives, but in 2015, this problem has improved.
At midnight on July 31, 2015, 162 enclaves on the India-Bangladesh border were exchanged, and most of them chose to stay in their birthplaces and chose to return to the embrace of the motherland, there were 920 people, who believed that only by going back could they have a legal identity and have a normal life.
People who returned to India from Bangladesh were uniformly placed in the resettlement camps, because the government felt that they could not adapt well to the new life, so they gave a two-year buffer period in the name of the largest resettlement camp in India, accepting half of the people who returned to India, and the tin houses scattered around them were their residences.
Originally in the enclave, Harry could earn more than a thousand yuan a month, but when he returned to India, he was unemployed, and the medicine profession he had once proud of was useless, and he could only accept the life of farming in the land. The Indian government promised to arrange 100 days of work for returnees and distribute them work cards, but in the first year, Harry worked 100 days of odd jobs, but this year, it was directly reduced to 70 days.
Harry also tried to find a job on his own, but the reason for being rejected was particularly far-fetched, making him feel that he was still a foreigner and discriminated against by the locals.
Carmele, who traveled with Harry, after sitting for a few months, also took out his old book to buy a motorcycle, turned into a motorcycle driver, for Camere, how much he was looking forward to returning to China, how disappointed he was now, the two-year buffer period was coming soon, but the things promised by the government were not fulfilled, such as the same work as before, and more than ten yuan a day living allowance, they had never seen.
Men can also sell their physical strength, do odd jobs, women after returning to China are more difficult to live, in the past, Anita's husband has a large farmland harvest, she herself is also a community handguard, the income is good, now, the husband runs to drive, she has become a full-time housewife, Anita does not like this can only rely on her husband, she obviously has a specialty, but because of discrimination can not find a job, can not reflect the value of their own life, can only be in fear day after day, they give up everything back to the motherland, in exchange for instability, can not see the future of life.
In addition to not being able to find a job, the living environment in the camp is not necessarily better than before, everyone lives in the hot tin room in winter and hot in summer, the room is narrow, can only put a bed and a table, when it rains, it will leak, they can only use plastic to paste the roof and windows, so as not to wet the decorations that are not much by the rain.
Parris turned out to be a primary school teacher, he sold his family property, returned to India with his wife and children, did not expect to face such an environment, although there was no electricity in the enclave before, but the house, at least three times larger than here, the cement roof, but also much stronger than the tin house, the house is a small problem, the most feared or not enough to eat.
Parris sold more than a thousand yuan from the seller, less than three months to spend, said good subsidies did not give, the government provided rice, less than a month to eat, some families, even can only eat 10-15 days, in the past year and a half, he only worked for four and a half months, the next arrangement of the government is far away, go out to find a job, no one is willing to give the opportunity,
Parris believes that the reason why they are not popular is because India is originally a large population, work is tight, income is difficult to maintain the life of many families, in the eyes of the locals, they are like invaders, will take away the opportunities that originally belonged to them, but the burden of the family, the daughter's tuition fees on Parris's shoulders, he must desperately find a job to maintain his life, mentioning his daughter, Parris's face is full of pride, the daughter likes to study, the grades are also very good, Parris hopes that her daughter can pass the study, Get a freer and better future without having to repeat their mistakes.
There are many bad things in the resettlement camp, but for the old lady, here at least to ensure their personal safety, in the enclave, there are often Bengals, to the village to rob cattle and loot money, she lives every day trembling, now she returns to India alone, there are distant relatives occasionally to take care of, the old lady feels that today's life, not bad, but she misses the grandson who stayed in Bangladesh very much, hoping to see each other before dying.
Although India and Bangladesh have exchanged enclaves, they have not eliminated the barriers between the inhabitants, people returning from enclaves cannot integrate into society, do not have a sense of identity from their compatriots, and the injuries they have suffered in enclaves and the discrimination they have suffered in resettlement camps will only become more memorable with time.