Sudan to Accept More Monitors, Troops

 

By Cathy Majtenyi

Sudan's foreign minister says he and British Foreign Secretary Jack¹ Straw have agreed to support an increase in the number of African Union monitors in the troubled area of Darfur. And sending more troops to protect them.

On the second day of his two-day trip to Sudan, Mr. Straw toured a refugee camp in the war-torn area of Darfur and met with African Union monitors to assess the situation on the ground.

Late Monday, Foreign Secretary Straw and his Sudanese counterpart, Mustafa Osman Ismail, held talks in the Sudanese capital Khartoum to discuss ways of ending the 18-month-old conflict, which has claimed tens of thousands of lives and has displaced more than a million people.

The Sudanese government is under increasing international pressure to bring in an African Union peacekeeping force in addition to some 80 monitors and a 150 AU troops already in Darfur.

Mr. Ismail says both he and Mr. Straw agreed that more monitors and an expanded protection force should be deployed² in Darfur.

But Mr. Ismail says Mr. Straw and he do not yet see a need for the deployment³ of a full-fledged peacekeeping force that would, among other things, protect civilians⁴ from attacks by a pro-government Arab militia⁵ called Janjaweed.

The Janjaweed marauders are accused of committing atrocities⁶ that some human rights groups and the U.S. Congress have called genocide.

"Jack Straw doesn't talk about forces to protect the civilians. He's talking about increasing the African monitors and, in principle, we have no problem. Just what we need to do is to agree on numbers and places, and so on," said Mr. Ismail.

Mr. Ismail says the Sudanese government needs time to disarm⁷ all armed groups in Darfur, including two main rebel groups, to ensure order before a peacekeeping force can be deployed.

The Sudanese foreign minister says his government is doing its best to stop the violence.

"Settling the Darfur conflicts, we are doing it through three categories: the humanitarian⁸, and there is a consensus⁹ that the government is doing its best; the political, and there is a consensus that now the government showed the sincerity¹⁰ to settle this problem politically; [and] security," he stated. "I told him we arrest[ed] more than 200 of the Janjaweed. They are in prison now. From our side, we are arresting them and we are putting them into court."

But the Associated Press reported that a British official who has been on patrol with the African Union mission says the Janjaweed still operate with impunity¹¹. The official is quoted as calling Darfur "bandit country" where the Janjaweed are doing what they want.

Cathy Majtenyi for VOA News, Nairobi.

注释：
Darfur 达尔福尔，苏丹西部地区
Khartoum 喀土木，苏丹首都
full-fledged 成熟的，有资格的
Janjaweed 贾贾威德民兵
marauder 掠夺者
atrocity 罪行
genocide 种族屠杀
consensus 一致同意
sincerity 真诚
Associated Press 美联社
impunity 免除惩罚

 

1 jack   

n.插座，千斤顶，男人；v.抬起，提醒，扛举；n.（Jake）杰克

参考例句：

• I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
• He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。

2 deployed   

（尤指军事行动）使展开( deploy的过去式和过去分词 )； 施展； 部署； 有效地利用

参考例句：

• Tanks have been deployed all along the front line. 沿整个前线已部署了坦克。
• The artillery was deployed to bear on the fort. 火炮是对着那个碉堡部署的。

3 deployment   

n. 部署,展开

参考例句：

• He has inquired out the deployment of the enemy troops. 他已查出敌军的兵力部署情况。
• Quality function deployment (QFD) is a widely used customer-driven quality, design and manufacturing management tool. 质量功能展开(quality function deployment,QFD)是一个广泛应用的顾客需求驱动的设计、制造和质量管理工具。

4 civilians   

平民，百姓( civilian的名词复数 )； 老百姓

参考例句：

• the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
• At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后，至少有300名平民下落不明。

5 militia   

n.民兵，民兵组织

参考例句：

• First came the PLA men,then the people's militia.人民解放军走在前面，其次是民兵。
• There's a building guarded by the local militia at the corner of the street.街道拐角处有一幢由当地民兵团守卫的大楼。

6 atrocities   

n.邪恶，暴行( atrocity的名词复数 )；滔天大罪

参考例句：

• They were guilty of the most barbarous and inhuman atrocities. 他们犯有最野蛮、最灭绝人性的残暴罪行。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The enemy's atrocities made one boil with anger. 敌人的暴行令人发指。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

7 disarm   

v.解除武装，回复平常的编制，缓和

参考例句：

• The world has waited 12 years for Iraq to disarm. 全世界等待伊拉克解除武装已有12年之久。
• He has rejected every peaceful opportunity offered to him to disarm.他已经拒绝了所有能和平缴械的机会。

8 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。

9 consensus   

n.(意见等的)一致，一致同意，共识

参考例句：

• Can we reach a consensus on this issue?我们能在这个问题上取得一致意见吗？
• What is the consensus of opinion at the afternoon meeting?下午会议上一致的意见是什么？

10 sincerity   

n.真诚，诚意；真实

参考例句：

• His sincerity added much more authority to the story.他的真诚更增加了故事的说服力。
• He tried hard to satisfy me of his sincerity.他竭力让我了解他的诚意。

11 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。