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  • (NO BYLINE: PHOTOGRAPHED IN RESTRICTED AREAS WITHOUT GOVT. PERMISSION) The India-Bangladesh Border fence, in Nadia district, Ranaghat, North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India, on 19th January, 2012. On the left of the fence, villagers live in the 'no mans zone'. People and products like cows are often smuggled across the porous borders by wading across the rivers and jumping the fences. Recently, a woman was shot dead by the Indian Border Security Force as she was climbing over a fence, and was left on the fence for 3 days.
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  • (NO BYLINE: PHOTOGRAPHED IN RESTRICTED AREAS WITHOUT GOVT. PERMISSION) A villager pushes his bicycle as he leaves his home in the 'no mans land' zone on the left of the fence of the India-Bangladesh Border fence, in Nadia district, Ranaghat, North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India, on 19th January, 2012. On the left of the fence, villagers live in the 'no mans zone'. People and products like cows are often smuggled across the porous borders by wading across the rivers and jumping the fences. Recently, a woman was shot dead by the Indian Border Security Force as she was climbing over a fence, and was left on the fence for 3 days.
    Suzanne20120119-Porous-Borders-0011.jpg
  • Overview of a river in the India-Bangladesh Border area, in Nadia district, Ranaghat, West Bengal, India, on 19th January, 2012. People and products like cows are often smuggled across the porous borders by wading across the rivers. Recently, a torture video of a captured cattle smuggler surfaced on the internet, provoking outrage at the high-handedness of the Indian Border Security Force. Photo by Suzanne Lee for The National (online byline: Photo by Szu for The National)
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  • Overview of a river in the India-Bangladesh Border area, in Nadia district, Ranaghat, West Bengal, India, on 19th January, 2012. People and products like cows are often smuggled across the porous borders by wading across the rivers. Recently, a torture video of a captured cattle smuggler surfaced on the internet, provoking outrage at the high-handedness of the Indian Border Security Force. Photo by Suzanne Lee for The National (online byline: Photo by Szu for The National)
    Suzanne20120119-Porous-Borders-0001.jpg
  • Men gather to buy and sell cattle at the weekly cattle market that happens in Birohi, a town close to the India-Bangladesh Border, in Nadia district, West Bengal, India, on 19th January, 2012. The larger cows, priced at almost INR 10,000 (USD 190) each are often smuggled across the porous borders by wading across the rivers to be sold at a profit in Bangladesh. Recently, a torture video of a captured cattle smuggler surfaced on the internet, provoking outrage at the high-handedness of the Indian Border Security Force. Photo by Suzanne Lee for The National (online byline: Photo by Szu for The National)
    Suzanne20120119-Borders-Cattle-Marke...jpg
  • Men gather to buy and sell cattle at the weekly cattle market that happens in Birohi, a town close to the India-Bangladesh Border, in Nadia district, West Bengal, India, on 19th January, 2012. The larger cows, priced at almost INR 10,000 (USD 190) each are often smuggled across the porous borders by wading across the rivers to be sold at a profit in Bangladesh. Recently, a torture video of a captured cattle smuggler surfaced on the internet, provoking outrage at the high-handedness of the Indian Border Security Force. Photo by Suzanne Lee for The National (online byline: Photo by Szu for The National)
    Suzanne20120119-Borders-Cattle-Marke...jpg
  • Men load large cows onto a truck at the weekly cattle market that happens in Birohi, a town close to the India-Bangladesh Border, in Nadia district, West Bengal, India, on 19th January, 2012. The larger cows, priced at almost INR 10,000 (USD 190) each are often smuggled across the porous borders by wading across the rivers to be sold at a profit in Bangladesh. Recently, a torture video of a captured cattle smuggler surfaced on the internet, provoking outrage at the high-handedness of the Indian Border Security Force. Photo by Suzanne Lee for The National (online byline: Photo by Szu for The National)
    Suzanne20120119-Borders-Cattle-Marke...jpg
  • Men gather to buy and sell cattle at the weekly cattle market that happens in Birohi, a town close to the India-Bangladesh Border, in Nadia district, West Bengal, India, on 19th January, 2012. The larger cows, priced at almost INR 10,000 (USD 190) each are often smuggled across the porous borders by wading across the rivers to be sold at a profit in Bangladesh. Recently, a torture video of a captured cattle smuggler surfaced on the internet, provoking outrage at the high-handedness of the Indian Border Security Force. Photo by Suzanne Lee for The National (online byline: Photo by Szu for The National)
    Suzanne20120119-Borders-Cattle-Marke...jpg
  • Men gather to buy and sell cattle at the weekly cattle market that happens in Birohi, a town close to the India-Bangladesh Border, in Nadia district, West Bengal, India, on 19th January, 2012. The larger cows, priced at almost INR 10,000 (USD 190) each are often smuggled across the porous borders by wading across the rivers to be sold at a profit in Bangladesh. Recently, a torture video of a captured cattle smuggler surfaced on the internet, provoking outrage at the high-handedness of the Indian Border Security Force. Photo by Suzanne Lee for The National (online byline: Photo by Szu for The National)
    Suzanne20120119-Borders-Cattle-Marke...jpg
  • Men gather to buy and sell cattle at the weekly cattle market that happens in Birohi, a town close to the India-Bangladesh Border, in Nadia district, West Bengal, India, on 19th January, 2012. The larger cows, priced at almost INR 10,000 (USD 190) each are often smuggled across the porous borders by wading across the rivers to be sold at a profit in Bangladesh. Recently, a torture video of a captured cattle smuggler surfaced on the internet, provoking outrage at the high-handedness of the Indian Border Security Force. Photo by Suzanne Lee for The National (online byline: Photo by Szu for The National)
    Suzanne20120119-Borders-Cattle-Marke...jpg
  • Men gather to buy and sell cattle at the weekly cattle market that happens in Birohi, a town close to the India-Bangladesh Border, in Nadia district, West Bengal, India, on 19th January, 2012. The larger cows, priced at almost INR 10,000 (USD 190) each are often smuggled across the porous borders by wading across the rivers to be sold at a profit in Bangladesh. Recently, a torture video of a captured cattle smuggler surfaced on the internet, provoking outrage at the high-handedness of the Indian Border Security Force. Photo by Suzanne Lee for The National (online byline: Photo by Szu for The National)
    Suzanne20120119-Borders-Cattle-Marke...jpg
  • Amin Hussain (center with money in hand), discuss with other men who gather to buy and sell cattle at the weekly cattle market that happens in Birohi, a town close to the India-Bangladesh Border, in Nadia district, West Bengal, India, on 19th January, 2012. The larger cows, priced at almost INR 10,000 (USD 190) each are often smuggled across the porous borders by wading across the rivers to be sold at a profit in Bangladesh. Recently, a torture video of a captured cattle smuggler surfaced on the internet, provoking outrage at the high-handedness of the Indian Border Security Force. Photo by Suzanne Lee for The National (online byline: Photo by Szu for The National)
    Suzanne20120119-Borders-Cattle-Marke...jpg
  • Men gather to buy and sell cattle at the weekly cattle market that happens in Birohi, a town close to the India-Bangladesh Border, in Nadia district, West Bengal, India, on 19th January, 2012. The larger cows, priced at almost INR 10,000 (USD 190) each are often smuggled across the porous borders by wading across the rivers to be sold at a profit in Bangladesh. Recently, a torture video of a captured cattle smuggler surfaced on the internet, provoking outrage at the high-handedness of the Indian Border Security Force. Photo by Suzanne Lee for The National (online byline: Photo by Szu for The National)
    Suzanne20120119-Borders-Cattle-Marke...jpg
  • Men gather to buy and sell cattle at the weekly cattle market that happens in Birohi, a town close to the India-Bangladesh Border, in Nadia district, West Bengal, India, on 19th January, 2012. The larger cows, priced at almost INR 10,000 (USD 190) each are often smuggled across the porous borders by wading across the rivers to be sold at a profit in Bangladesh. Recently, a torture video of a captured cattle smuggler surfaced on the internet, provoking outrage at the high-handedness of the Indian Border Security Force. Photo by Suzanne Lee for The National (online byline: Photo by Szu for The National)
    Suzanne20120119-Borders-Cattle-Marke...jpg
  • (L-R: (blue) Saraswati Saha, 84; unnamed; and (white) Kamla Das, 90) Three elderly women who were the original refugees of The Partition recall being brought to Cooper's Camp on trains and trucks as they gather outside their homes in Cooper's Camp, Nadia district, Ranaghat, North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India, on 19th January, 2012. "The government will neither eat us nor spit us out." says Kamla Das. "They dropped us off here (in 1947) and I'm still here!" Over 60 years after the bloody creation of Bangladesh in 1947, refugees who fled what was then known as West Pakistan to India still live as refugees, raising their children as refugees, and standing in line for government handouts..Photo by Suzanne Lee
    Suzanne20120119-Borders-Coopers-Camp...jpg
  • (L-R: (blue) Saraswati Saha, 84; unnamed; (white) Kamla Das, 90; (green) Purnima Mandol, 36; and unnamed) Elderly women who were the original refugees of The Partition gather and discuss their unfortunate situation outside their homes in Cooper's Camp, Nadia district, Ranaghat, North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India, on 19th January, 2012. "They dropped us off here (over six decades ago) and I'm still here!" says Kamla Das. "We would never want to go back to Bangladesh." Over 60 years after the bloody creation of Bangladesh in 1947, refugees who fled what was then known as West Pakistan to India still live as refugees, standing in line for government handouts..Photo by Suzanne Lee for The National (online byline: Photo by Szu for The National)
    Suzanne20120119-Borders-Coopers-Camp...jpg
  • (L-R: Purnima Mandol, 36, in green; Saraswati Saha, 84, blue shawl; and Kamla Das, 90, white sari) Refugees of The Partition gather and discuss their unfortunate situation outside their homes in Cooper's Camp, Nadia district, Ranaghat, North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India, on 19th January, 2012. "I was born here, but I spent my entire life growing up as a refugee. I grew up standing in line for government handouts." says Purnima angrily. Over 60 years after the bloody creation of Bangladesh in 1947, refugees who fled what was then known as West Pakistan to India still live as refugees. .Photo by Suzanne Lee for The National (online byline: Photo by Szu for The National)
    Suzanne20120119-Borders-Coopers-Camp...jpg
  • Saraswati Saha, 84, a refugee of The Partition discusses her situation with other elderly women in Cooper's Camp, Nadia district, Ranaghat, North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India, on 19th January, 2012. She vividly remembers being brought to the refugee camp first by train and then truck. "My daughter has died and I'm still here," she says over and over again. Over 60 years after the bloody creation of Bangladesh in 1947, refugees who fled what was then known as West Pakistan to India still live as refugees, standing in line for government handouts..Photo by Suzanne Lee for The National (online byline: Photo by Szu for The National)
    Suzanne20120119-Borders-Coopers-Camp...jpg
  • (L-R: (blue) Saraswati Saha, 84; unnamed; and (white) Kamla Das, 90) Three elderly women who were the original refugees of The Partition recall being brought to Cooper's Camp on trains and trucks as they gather outside their homes in Cooper's Camp, Nadia district, Ranaghat, North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India, on 19th January, 2012. "The government will neither eat us nor spit us out." says Kamla Das. "They dropped us off here (in 1947) and I'm still here!" Over 60 years after the bloody creation of Bangladesh in 1947, refugees who fled what was then known as West Pakistan to India still live as refugees, raising their children as refugees, and standing in line for government handouts..Photo by Suzanne Lee for The National (online byline: Photo by Szu for The National)
    Suzanne20120119-Borders-Coopers-Camp...jpg
  • (L-R: (blue) Saraswati Saha, 84; unnamed; and (white) Kamla Das, 90) Three elderly women who were the original refugees of The Partition recall being brought to Cooper's Camp on trains and trucks as they gather outside their homes in Cooper's Camp, Nadia district, Ranaghat, North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India, on 19th January, 2012. "The government will neither eat us nor spit us out." says Kamla Das. "They dropped us off here (in 1947) and I'm still here!" Over 60 years after the bloody creation of Bangladesh in 1947, refugees who fled what was then known as West Pakistan to India still live as refugees, raising their children as refugees, and standing in line for government handouts..Photo by Suzanne Lee for The National (online byline: Photo by Szu for The National)
    Suzanne20120119-Borders-Coopers-Camp...jpg
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