That’s the unfortunate effect of trying to accommodate ethnic enclaves. Yugoslavia had the same problem during its breakup. People don’t naturally settle along neat borders, you end up with pockets of ethnic groups living in pockmarked distributions along border regions.
Britain was trying to have their cake and eat it, too. Everyone gets a country and nobody needs to move. But they ended up creating these regions that were so messy and incapable of functioning as countries, leaving them to sort the rest out themselves (violently).
That’s the unfortunate effect of trying to accommodate ethnic enclaves. Yugoslavia had the same problem during its breakup. People don’t naturally settle along neat borders, you end up with pockets of ethnic groups living in pockmarked distributions along border regions.
Britain was trying to have their cake and eat it, too. Everyone gets a country and nobody needs to move. But they ended up creating these regions that were so messy and incapable of functioning as countries, leaving them to sort the rest out themselves (violently).
I was under the impression that drawing the lines so as to create never ending conflict was the intention?