After the Berlin wall, yet another 12 stand still

The wind of changes hasn't overtook the entire world population but furthermore is strongly opposed by another twelve walls

Twently years after the fall of the Berlin wall, which greatly contributed to the reiterated unification of Germany and the fall of communism in the Eastern Europe, "the wind of changes" hasn't overtook the entire world population but furthermore is strongly opposed by another twelve walls, some of which were built a posteriori to the fatal 1989.

A construction of the eight meter high fence with barbed wire, electronically monitored, reinforced by the patrols and the "tampon zones" up to sixty meters in width, the Israeli Government approved in 2002., and 58,3 percent of it is already done.

International court of justice in 2004. proclaimed illegal this very fence that Israel considers as the "security" while defending themselves from the Palestinian attacks. The Palestinians see it as the "wall of apartheid" violating their human rights and really stands for the further widening of the Israeli Territory.

So called "peace lines" started growing 40 years ago in Belfast as a temporary measure for the prevention of the attacks between the Catholic and the Protestant community. Even though the fence in some parts reaches up to six meters, nowadays it's nothing but a tourist attraction, and a symbol of violence in the Northern Ireland, while the most recent parts were built only last year in Belfast following the tensions between the two communities.

To protect it's own economy, the most prominent one in the Persian Bay as well as the greatest world oil resources, the Saudi Arabia protects it's own 9000 kilometers long border the state-of-ther-art fence worldwide, partly with a physical wall, partly using a high-tech monitoring. A boarder with Yemen is 1500 km long and with Iraq 800 km long. The boarder is partially secured by the physical wall while the less populated areas are being monitored by the satellites, cameras, radars, electronic sensors, pathfinders and other means

By the end of 90's Spain decided to construct a fence around its own enclaves Ceuta and Melilla to obstruct the vast refugee wave coming from Africa. Spain spreaded 8,2 km of the wired fence all around Ceuta and 12 km around Melilla, while the increase in the illegal migration in the Spain is the reason that each one of the walls has been furtherly heightened for another six meters. Both fences carry infrared cameras, tear gas containers, clamour and movement sensors and the monitoring towers.

The wall built in the post-war period in 1974., on no man's land, divides the Turkish from the Greek community on the mediterranrean island of Cyprus. The barbed wire is 180 km long, while the green line is monitored by the UN peace corps. In the 2003 the border has been finally reopened and thus enables to the members of the both communities a clear communication after virtually three decades of the separation.

In 2007 Iran commenced building a wall in order to obstruct the illegal activities such are trafficking of the people and the goods, mostly the opiates. However, some say that Iran uses it to protect itself from the infiltration of the Islamic extremists. The wall could be up to 700 km long and 3 meters high. The Balochistans live from the both sides of the wall and it clearly divides their community.

From the beginning of the year, the city authorities commenced building walls encirculating that way the "Favelas", poorish dwellings on the hills around the city. A total of 13 favelas will be eventually sourrounded by the 80 cm up to 33 meters of concrete and 14 km long.

The goal is to obstruct the poor to expand furtherly their settlements toward the Tijuca park forest, also known as one of the greatest nature reservates within the municipal area. The real aim is to ghettoise the poor people and thus shelter the rich ones situated in between the Favelas and the sea, assert the critics, while some of the assert that the wall should also obstruct the drug trafficking.

One third out of 3200 km long border toward Mexico an American Government reinforced by a metal wall, thus spending 2,5 billion USD to obstruct the entrace to the illegal immigrants from Mexico and the Central America. Construction begun in 1991., and in 1994.

USA furtherly increased the monitoring policy using ''operation Border Guard''. The Mexico Commission for human rights asserts that over the high temperatures in the desert over 5600 of the illegal immigrants died trying to cross the border. The wall should impose itself as the new barrier given it consists partly of three metal fences, four to five meters approximately high.

The walls, batbed wire and the barricades stretch over the half of the 2900 km long border between India and Pakistan. Indija started constructing the fence in the late 80's in its states Punjab and Rajastan and is ready to stretch it all along the border to secure itself against the terrorist attacks. The border situated in the rich region of Kashmir, over which two neighbouring countries several times went to war, is secured by a large number of land mines and other technologiocal devices.

Demilitarised zone between North Corea and South Corea is probably the best secured border in the world. A strip 4 km wide and 250 km long was made in 1953., only after the two Corea signed an armistice in a war that killed nearly three million of casualities. Even today, despite the attempts of the mutual approaching between two states, the border remains a Cold war relict and the symbol of a secret tension on the Corean Peninsula.

Morrocans and the people of Zahravi have an argument over the West Sahara area from 1976., when the occupation Spain withdrew. In 1980. the Moroccans started erecting a wall in the Desert, offically because of the defence against the Polisario Front, a political and a military movement wanting an independence from the Moroco and an autonomy for Sahrawa.

Finished in 1987., the fence makes the sum of six different defence walls in total, over 2700 km long, erected out of the composite of the sand and the stone, barbed wire, rows and land mines. The human rights associations think of it as the "wall of defamation" over the land mines. Moroco asserts that it already dismantled nearly 65.000 mines

Defence fence is mostly compared to the one of The West Sahara, but erected for sanitary reasons. Approximately two meters high barbed wire, stretches along 500 km. The Bostswana Government use it for obstructing the spread of West Nile fever and protect their flocks. Thousands of live stocks died over the last few years in Botswana due to the epidemic outrages which is a great loss for the state in which the livestock breeding is the second best income besides the diamonds.

Zimbabwe asserts that the neighbouring country is defending from the illegal immigration originating from Zimbabwe, heavily obstructed by the hyper-inflation and 90-percent unemployment. Until this very day the fence hasn't been electrified and thus not a great obstacle to the immigration.