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B L KAK
***‘Temporary’male partners of the foreigner females were locked up in a house until the unceremonious exit of the visitors from the village. ***
NEW DELHI, OCT. 24: Restrictions have been imposed on the people residing in Durchik in Ladakh. They cannot have sexual intercourse with foreign nationals.
Durchik is a border village, 70 km away from Kargil in the trans-Himalayan region of Ladakh. People of the village are all Buddhists. They consider themselves to be the purest livng survivors of the Aryan race.
The inhabitants of Durchik and Garkum villages of the Kargil sector and adjoining hamlets of Dah and Hanu in Leh district of Ladakh are unique: They do not eat fowl and hen's egg. Even the use of cowdung as fuel is considered a sacrilege since the cow is sacred to them.
According to a report reaching Early Times, the restrictions were unoffically introduced recently in the wake of the protest by a group of Buddhist elders of the Durchik village against the 'compromisng posture' of three foreign ladies with three local males inside a village hut.
The three sturdy villagers had used no force. Carefree frolics of the German ladies had prompted them to be unconventional in their mood for a short while.
But the three German and two French ladies had to be removed from Durchik when a group of local residents took strong exception to their unconventional mode of living.
Initially, the visitors, aged between 20 and 28 years, were warmly received by the residents of Durchik. During the first two days food and fruits were gifted to them. But relations soon soured following allegation against them of anti-Buddhist activity.
This culminated in their sojourn with the three local males. Interestingly, their ‘temporary’ male partners were locked up in a house until the unceremonious exit of the foreign visitors from the village.
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