Siachen, A War for Ice | movie | 2005 | Official Trailer
The history and life of the soldiers involved the world’s highest, less known and most absurd war. This conflict began | dG1fNEpVMnA3TlAweWM
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00:00Hi, I'm a fuel container, and my name is Jerry, Jerry Kahn, pressed and folded like a slice
00:10of ham. I was born in Pakistan far back in 1947, squashed between two mighty metal blocks.
00:17I'm Krishna. I'm an Indian Jerry Kahn, and I was born 20 years ago. I was told that on
00:36the top of the world, in the Karakoram region, among the 8,000 tall summits, there is a cemetery
00:42where thousands of my brothers and sisters have died after emptying their bellies of kerosene.
00:49Two enemy fuel containers make a pilgrimage to the front of an unknown war that has been
01:12draining the financial resources of both India and Pakistan.
01:19It is, in fact, mentioned in the world-wide maps that Siachen Glacier is part of Pakistan.
01:26It took me just a second that, oh, this is somewhere wrong. I said, to hell, it's not
01:32in Pakistan's heights.
01:35To the north of the disputed Kashmir lies a glacier called Siachen, which literally
01:39means the Place of Roses. Here, the highest and certainly one of the most absurd and least
01:44known of all wars is being waged, 20 years of conflict for a border drawn up at a desk
01:50and never accepted. Trenches are garrisoned all year round at up to a 7,000-meter altitude.
01:55This is the highest post, all-seasonal post. And you are here in June, and within three,
02:06four hours, you can see two, three feet of snow.
02:11It's a beautiful snow river of 70 kilometer long. And when you stand on that last height,
02:21you can see China, you can see Russia, you can see Pakistan, you can even see Afghanistan.
02:27So that's the romantic side of it.
02:35The largest drinking water reserve in the Himalayas has been polluted by kerosene and
02:40tons of chemical and organic waste, a crime against humanity. Among the victims, 300 million
02:47people who drink the contaminated water from the source of the Indus River.
02:54We all know that perhaps this war could have been avoided. But territorial integrity is
03:02very, very important for any country.
03:08A line between the mountains, a border that kills in order to separate.
03:18It's just a piece of glacier where people, both countries fighting for way that glacier.
03:26It's good for nothing, you know.
03:32War is not good. A country like India, to spend such a big, huge amount on like million
03:42dollars in a day is a big cost.
03:47The history, tragedies and daily life in an unknown and forgotten war, while India and
03:54Pakistan are negotiating peace, thousands of soldiers all year round guard a border
03:58which stretches above the clouds.
04:01What keeps them alive? Billions of liters of kerosene brought by Jerry's and Krishna's
04:07siblings. Here, oil is the sap of war. It provides warmth, light and water to the soldiers
04:13stuck in the ice.
04:24India! India! India!