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Bangladesh and India will this week finally swap tiny islands of land, ending one of the world's most difficult border disputes that has kept thousands of people in stateless limbo for almost 70 years. At one minute past midnight on Friday, some 50,000 residents along the border will light candles and celebrate their "new found freedom" following a historic deal sealed between the two countries' prime ministers.
"The 68 candles mark our 68 years of endless pain since 1947 and the agonies and poverty we faced living in no-man's land," said Golam Mostafa, who lives in an Indian enclave in the Bangladesh district of Kurigram. Mostafa and other residents of the 162 enclaves - small pockets of one country's territory surrounded by the other - lack basic services such as schools, clinics, power and water because they are cut off from their national governments.

Copyright Agence France-Presse, 2015

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