VOA慢速英语--联合国称60万罗兴亚人面临种族灭绝威胁

UN: 600,000 Rohingya Live Under Threat of Genocide

A special United Nations team is calling for an international investigation¹ into the dangers faced by Rohingya people in Myanmar’s Rakhine State. The U.N. says 600,000 Rohingya who remain in the country live under the threat of genocide.

The three-member Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar presented its report on Monday to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland. It said the government-led human rights crisis in the country continues.

Marzuki Darusman leads the mission. He noted² last year’s report, which found evidence of crimes against humanity and war crimes by Myanmar’s Tatmadaw army against ethnic³ communities. He said these same crimes continue.

“We found genocidal acts…in the Tatmadaw’s 2017 'clearance⁴ operations' against the Rohingya population,” Darusman said.

He also said Myanmar’s security forces have enjoyed impunity⁵ for their crimes for many years.

Darusman said the Mission’s report is based on information from almost 1,300 discussions with victims and eyewitnesses⁶. He said the report also considered tens of thousands of documented human rights abuses of ethnic minorities.

Darusman said the evidence shows that the dangers that forced more than 740,000 Rohingya refugees to flee to Bangladesh continue today.

The situation for about 600,000 Rohingya remaining in Rakhine State is largely unchanged, he said. He noted that laws that discriminate⁷ against Rohingya remain in effect and enforced. These include a 1982 citizenship⁸ law that bars Rohingya from all basic rights.

The mission found “serious risk of genocide recurring,” said Darusman.

Myanmar’s Representative to the U.N. in Geneva, Kyaw Moe Tun, questioned the reasoning and fairness of the report. He said it creates a misleading picture of the humanitarian¹⁰ situation in the country. He argued that the report is based on unsupported claims and misinformation.

He said his government does not accept impunity and acts against criminal behavior when there is acceptable evidence of such.

He also rejected moves to bring the issue before an international legal body. And, he denounced the U.N team’s call for restrictions¹¹ against Myanmar. He said efforts to hurt Myanmar economically would punish millions of innocent people and interfere¹² with their human rights.

I’m Caty Weaver¹³.

Words in This Story

impunity - n. freedom from punishment, harm, or loss — usually used in the phrase "with impunity"

recur⁹ - v. to happen or appear again : to occur again

1 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。

2 noted   

adj.著名的，知名的

参考例句：

• The local hotel is noted for its good table.当地的那家酒店以餐食精美而著称。
• Jim is noted for arriving late for work.吉姆上班迟到出了名。

3 ethnic   

adj.人种的，种族的，异教徒的

参考例句：

• This music would sound more ethnic if you played it in steel drums.如果你用钢鼓演奏，这首乐曲将更具民族特色。
• The plan is likely only to aggravate ethnic frictions.这一方案很有可能只会加剧种族冲突。

4 clearance   

n.净空；许可(证)；清算；清除，清理

参考例句：

• There was a clearance of only ten centimetres between the two walls.两堵墙之间只有十厘米的空隙。
• The ship sailed as soon as it got clearance. 那艘船一办好离港手续立刻启航了。

5 impunity   

n.(惩罚、损失、伤害等的)免除

参考例句：

• You will not escape with impunity.你不可能逃脱惩罚。
• The impunity what compulsory insurance sets does not include escapement.交强险规定的免责范围不包括逃逸。

6 eyewitnesses   

目击者( eyewitness的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The examination of all the eyewitnesses took a week. 对所有证人的质询用了一周的时间。
• Several eyewitnesses testified that they saw the officers hit Miller in the face. 几位目击证人证明他们看见那几个警官打了米勒的脸。

7 discriminate   

v.区别，辨别，区分；有区别地对待

参考例句：

• You must learn to discriminate between facts and opinions.你必须学会把事实和看法区分出来。
• They can discriminate hundreds of colours.他们能分辨上百种颜色。

8 citizenship   

n.市民权，公民权，国民的义务(身份)

参考例句：

• He was born in Sweden,but he doesn't have Swedish citizenship.他在瑞典出生，但没有瑞典公民身分。
• Ten years later,she chose to take Australian citizenship.十年后，她选择了澳大利亚国籍。

9 recur   

vi.复发，重现，再发生

参考例句：

• Economic crises recur periodically.经济危机周期性地发生。
• Of course,many problems recur at various periods.当然，有许多问题会在不同的时期反复提出。

10 humanitarian   

n.人道主义者，博爱者，基督凡人论者

参考例句：

• She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业，并作了很大的贡献。
• The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。

11 restrictions   

约束( restriction的名词复数 )； 管制； 制约因素； 带限制性的条件（或规则）

参考例句：

• I found the restrictions irksome. 我对那些限制感到很烦。
• a snaggle of restrictions 杂乱无章的种种限制

12 interfere   

v.(in)干涉，干预；(with)妨碍，打扰

参考例句：

• If we interfere, it may do more harm than good.如果我们干预的话，可能弊多利少。
• When others interfere in the affair,it always makes troubles. 别人一卷入这一事件，棘手的事情就来了。

13 weaver   

n.织布工；编织者

参考例句：

• She was a fast weaver and the cloth was very good.她织布织得很快，而且布的质量很好。
• The eager weaver did not notice my confusion.热心的纺织工人没有注意到我的狼狈相。