2006年VOA标准英语-Video Sheds Little Light on Mystery of Uzbek Ma
时间：2019-01-06 作者：英语课 分类：2006年VOA标准英语（六月）
By Gary Thomas
Washington
23 June 2006
Videotape has surfaced in the West of the hours leading up to a reported massacre 1 in the town of Andijon in Uzbekistan just over one year ago. Human rights groups have said the Uzbek government indiscriminately killed unarmed demonstrators. The government says it was putting down an armed uprising. The tape does little to clear up the mystery.
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The 109-minute videotape is a small but fascinating window into the controversial Andijon incident, with seemingly contradictory 2 images. But the key question about the Uzbek government's final response to the events last year in Andijon is not resolved because the tape ends before those final moments when hundreds of people were killed.
The tape was first obtained by Martha Brill Olcott, a researcher and Central Asia specialist at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She says the tape is a valuable but incomplete record of what happened in Andijon.
"It's a snapshot of what occurred then. It's as if you come back from a trip and have 350 pictures from a two-week vacation. You capture a lot of it, but a lot of it's not there," she said.
On May 13, 2005, armed men broke into a local prison to free 23 businessmen who had been accused of belonging to a banned Islamic militant 3 group. By many accounts, the square then filled with thousands of people seeking to voice their dissatisfaction with the hardline government of President Islam Karimov. The government says it put down an armed insurrection by Islamic militants 4. Critics say troops opened fire on peaceful demonstrators. The incident soured relations between Uzbekistan and the West.
The tape was made by two cameramen who were in the square that day. The version obtained by Martha Olcott is heavily edited as it was used by the government to prosecute 5 participants in the uprising. But even allowing for the government editing and selective translation, it shows starkly 6 contrasting pictures.
It contains images of people linking arms and making speeches, some of them rambling 7, in what appears to be a peaceful protest. Interspersed 8 with speeches, crowds shout Allahu Akbar, or God Is Great.
But it also shows men strolling around with guns and making the gasoline bottle bombs popularly known as Molotov cocktails 9. A bus and the town opera house are set ablaze 10. At several points, gunfire can be heard nearby.
Olcott says that the Karimov government clearly faced some kind of threat that day.
"What the film tells me is that the Uzbek government was under a serious threat. It had a situation it had to deal with. This, to me, is not a peaceful demonstration 11. It was a majority of unarmed people, but this was a threat to the security of the state. You can't have people making Molotov cocktails in a park," she said.
Olcott and other analysts 12 believe many innocent people came to the square out of curiosity, where they were caught up in a growing demonstration that was separate from the militants' actions. They were then caught when government moved in to clear the town square.
But Olcott says the key question about whether the government indiscriminately fired on peaceful demonstrators, as critics claim, is not answered by the tape.
"It is clear that the government response was incompetent 13. Many more people were killed than a competent government would have killed to break up that crowd. Whether it was malicious 14, we have no way to know that. Whether this was incompetent or simply deliberately 15 designed to mow 16 down a couple hundred people, this film tells us nothing about that," she said.
The Karimov government has continued to reject calls for an independent international inquiry into the events at Andijon
- There was a terrible massacre of villagers here during the war.在战争中，这里的村民惨遭屠杀。
- If we forget the massacre,the massacre will happen again!忘记了大屠杀，大屠杀就有可能再次发生！
- The argument is internally contradictory.论据本身自相矛盾。
- What he said was self-contradictory.他讲话前后不符。
- Some militant leaders want to merge with white radicals.一些好斗的领导人要和白人中的激进派联合。
- He is a militant in the movement.他在那次运动中是个激进人物。
- The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
- Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。
- I am trying my best to prosecute my duties.我正在尽力履行我的职责。
- Is there enough evidence to prosecute?有没有起诉的足够证据？
- We spent the summer rambling in Ireland. 我们花了一个夏天漫游爱尔兰。
- It was easy to get lost in the rambling house. 在布局凌乱的大房子里容易迷路。
- Lectures will be interspersed with practical demonstrations. 讲课中将不时插入实际示范。
- The grass was interspersed with beds of flowers. 草地上点缀着许多花坛。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- Come about 4 o'clock. We'll have cocktails and grill steaks. 请四点钟左右来，我们喝鸡尾酒，吃烤牛排。 来自辞典例句
- Cocktails were a nasty American habit. 喝鸡尾酒是讨厌的美国习惯。 来自辞典例句
- The main street was ablaze with lights in the evening.晚上，那条主要街道灯火辉煌。
- Forests are sometimes set ablaze by lightning.森林有时因雷击而起火。
- His new book is a demonstration of his patriotism.他写的新书是他的爱国精神的证明。
- He gave a demonstration of the new technique then and there.他当场表演了这种新的操作方法。
- City analysts forecast huge profits this year. 伦敦金融分析家预测今年的利润非常丰厚。
- I was impressed by the high calibre of the researchers and analysts. 研究人员和分析人员的高素质给我留下了深刻印象。
- He is utterly incompetent at his job.他完全不能胜任他的工作。
- He is incompetent at working with his hands.他动手能力不行。
- You ought to kick back at such malicious slander. 你应当反击这种恶毒的污蔑。
- Their talk was slightly malicious.他们的谈话有点儿心怀不轨。
- The girl gave the show away deliberately.女孩故意泄露秘密。
- They deliberately shifted off the argument.他们故意回避这个论点。