VOA双语新闻：14、志愿者在乌东为阵亡人员收尸（在线收听）

志愿者在乌东为阵亡人员收尸

As the cease-fire becomes more fragile in eastern Ukraine, a team of volunteer body collectors travels to the small village of Savur Mohyla in the what pro-Russian separatists call the Donetsk Peoples Republic - to retrieve bodies of fallen Ukrainian servicemen from rebel-held territories.

在维持着脆弱停火的乌克兰东部，一队收尸志愿者进入亲俄分裂分子称为顿涅茨克人民共和国的地区，来到小村庄萨乌尔蒙吉拉，试图在叛军控制的地盘内找回阵亡乌克兰政府军士兵的遗体。美国之音记者实地采访了这一队伍。

With a recent escalation in violence in eastern Ukraine's separatist conflict, the number of dead grows. Many fallen soldiers are buried without record, often in a grave without a name or tombstone. On the road to the village of Savur Mohyla near the Russian border, a Ukrainian volunteer team called Black Tulip is on a mission to collect bodies of fallen Ukraine government soldiers from rebel-held territory.

随着最近乌克兰东部分裂分子暴力冲突的加剧，死亡人数也在持续上升。许多阵亡士兵往往在没有墓碑和名字的情况下被匆匆埋葬。在去往俄乌边境村庄萨乌尔蒙吉拉的路上，一支名为“黑色郁金香”的队伍正在叛军控制的地盘上执行任务，寻找阵亡乌克兰政府军士兵的遗体。

Little remains of the military positions that were here. But there is still danger from land mines and booby traps. Still, the team does this grim work without pay.

这里几乎已经没有军事行动，但来自地雷和陷阱的威胁依旧存在。这一严峻的任务没有任何报酬。

"There is one body here, we received information from local citizens, it was a fight over here in the end of August. Ukrainian soldiers were pushed back and one of the soldiers was left here," said Black Tulip volunteer Aleksey.

黑色郁金香志愿队领队阿列克谢说：“当地居民告诉我们，这里有一具尸体。在去年八月底时，这里曾有一次交战。乌克兰士兵被击退，这名士兵在这里阵亡。”

Despite coming from Ukrainian government-held territory, the team is able to work in separatist-controlled land through cooperation with the militaries on both sides.

志愿队虽然来自乌克兰政府军控制区，但通过与两边军队的协作，他们能够在分裂分子的地盘开展工作。

"We transmit bodies from the Ukrainian side to the DNR [separatist] side and vice versa. There is an agreement between the government of DNR and the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, and when this agreement is confirmed, on that day we are able to cross the border," said Aleksey.

阿列克谢说：“我们将遗体从乌克兰政府军控制区运送到叛军控制区，反之亦然。乌克兰政府与叛军政府之间已有协议，协议一经过确认，我们就可以穿越边境了。”

The separatists' commissioner for missing people, Lilia Radionova, helps coordinate the team. She says she gets thousands of request every day to help find missing persons - her desk piled with letters and photos from family members.

分裂武装的失踪人口专员，丽莲·拉迪诺娃帮助志愿队进行协调工作。她说，她每天都要接到上千个请求帮助寻找失踪人员的要求。她的办公桌上已经堆满来自失踪军人家属的信件和照片。

"I received a lot of phone calls from Ukrainian soldiers' relatives, mothers, fathers, wives. This is a Ukrainian soldiers' list of lost in action," said Radionova.

拉迪诺娃说：“我接听了很多来自乌克兰士兵的亲属、母亲、父亲、妻子的电话。这是目前仍在寻找中的乌克兰士兵名单。”

Although February's cease-fire agreement called for returning casualties and prisoners of war, getting permission for the team to work can be difficult. But Radionova says cooperation between the two sides is improving.

尽管二月份的停火协定促成了许多伤亡人员和战俘的遣返，但对于志愿来说，拿到工作许可仍然很困难。拉迪诺娃说，两边的合作正在加强。

"When we submitted 22 bodies to them from Donetsk airport something changed, after this ultimatum we demanded something changed. Since January, we could not take our fallen from Volnovakha and now finally we received the bodies, thanks to them but at the moment there are many more bodies...Due to joint efforts we will have an agreement in future," she said.

拉迪诺娃说：“当我们在顿涅茨克机场向他们移交了22具遗体时，形势有了进展；在我们发出严正要求之后，形势有了进展。一月份时，我们还不能从沃尔诺瓦哈运回阵亡将士的遗体。现在多亏了他们，我们收到了很多遗体。在双方的努力之下，我们将来会达成协议。”

The volunteers return with a body they think may be a rebel soldier. They say they will hand it to authorities for identification.

志愿者们返回时带了一具疑似叛军战士的遗体。他们说他们会交给当局验证。

"We apply visual inspection of the body, sometimes there are some documents in pockets and we can use it to identify a person. If there are no documents, the only help is DNA analysis," said Aleksey.

阿列克谢说：“我们对遗体进行了目测。有些会携带文件，我们可以用来判断这个人的身份。如果没有文件的话，DNA化验就是唯一的方法。”

More than 6,000 fighters and civilians have died in the conflict in eastern Ukraine over the past year, and with frequent cease-fire violations, the team's work is far from over.

在过去的一年，总计6000余名战士和平民在乌克兰东部的冲突中丧生。因为停火协定没有被有效执行，志愿队的工作还远远没有结束。