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英语课
By Nick Wadhams
Nairobi
05 July 2007

Rwanda's foreign minister says France is refusing to try former officials on charges that they may have been complicit in the 1994 genocide because it does not want them to be associated with such a crime. Nick Wadhams reports from our East Africa bureau in Nairobi.






Rwandan Foreign Minister Charles Murigande (2004 file photo)


Charles Murigande (2004 file photo)



Foreign Minister Charles Murigande tells VOA France played a role in the massacre 1 of Rwandan Tutsis in 1994. He insists France is resisting calls to bring former officials to trial because doing so would harm its image.


"You know, genocide is the worst crime that can be committed on this Earth and there is no person and no country which would associate itself with genocide," he said. "I can understand France trying to deny involvement whatsoever 2 in the genocide. All those criminals that are being tried for genocide in all these international courts, every one of them denies participation 3 because it is something that is horrible, nobody would willingly accept responsibility."


The foreign minister's remarks come three days after the French newspaper Le Monde reported that French officials had clear warnings in the early 1990s of a possible slaughter 4 by ethnic 5 Hutus of the minority Tutsis. The newspaper says French officials backed the Hutu-led government nonetheless.


On Tuesday, Rwanda's justice minister said France should prosecute 6 politicians who ignored warnings about the genocide.


France's Foreign Ministry 7 refused comment on Murigande's remarks, but France has long denied any complicity in the genocide.


Nearly 800,000 people are believed to have been killed in 100 days of violence by Hutu extremists, who slaughtered 8 members of the Tutsi minority and also moderate Hutus who did not support the extremists.


Rwanda also accuses France of refusing to cooperate with a commission of inquiry 9 into the 1994 massacre. Murigande says he believes that France will eventually have to try former officials for their involvement.


"If France wants to hold to that image of a democratic and a law abiding 10 country, it will eventually have to hold accountable those who played such a horrible role," he said.






Paul Kagame at VOA


Paul Kagame at VOA (file photo)



Last year, Rwanda broke off diplomatic relations with France after a French judge accused Rwandan President Paul Kagame of ordering the assassination 11 of his Hutu predecessor 12, Juvenal Habyarimana. The genocide began after Hayarimana's plane was shot down outside the Rwandan capital Kigali.


President Kagame, a Tutsi, led the rebel group that eventually brought the genocide to an end.




n.残杀,大屠杀;v.残杀,集体屠杀
  • 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!
adv.(用于否定句中以加强语气)任何;pron.无论什么
  • There's no reason whatsoever to turn down this suggestion.没有任何理由拒绝这个建议。
  • All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you,do ye even so to them.你想别人对你怎样,你就怎样对人。
n.参与,参加,分享
  • Some of the magic tricks called for audience participation.有些魔术要求有观众的参与。
  • The scheme aims to encourage increased participation in sporting activities.这个方案旨在鼓励大众更多地参与体育活动。
n.屠杀,屠宰;vt.屠杀,宰杀
  • I couldn't stand to watch them slaughter the cattle.我不忍看他们宰牛。
  • Wholesale slaughter was carried out in the name of progress.大规模的屠杀在维护进步的名义下进行。
adj.人种的,种族的,异教徒的
  • 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。
vt.告发;进行;vi.告发,起诉,作检察官
  • 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?
n.(政府的)部;牧师
  • They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
  • We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。
v.屠杀,杀戮,屠宰( slaughter的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The invading army slaughtered a lot of people. 侵略军杀了许多人。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Hundreds of innocent civilians were cruelly slaughtered. 数百名无辜平民遭残杀。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.打听,询问,调查,查问
  • Many parents have been pressing for an inquiry into the problem.许多家长迫切要求调查这个问题。
  • The field of inquiry has narrowed down to five persons.调查的范围已经缩小到只剩5个人了。
adj.永久的,持久的,不变的
  • He had an abiding love of the English countryside.他永远热爱英国的乡村。
  • He has a genuine and abiding love of the craft.他对这门手艺有着真挚持久的热爱。
n.暗杀;暗杀事件
  • The assassination of the president brought matters to a head.总统遭暗杀使事态到了严重关头。
  • Lincoln's assassination in 1865 shocked the whole nation.1865年,林肯遇刺事件震惊全美国。
n.前辈,前任
  • It will share the fate of its predecessor.它将遭受与前者同样的命运。
  • The new ambassador is more mature than his predecessor.新大使比他的前任更成熟一些。
学英语单词
3-cholestanone
adenosine monophosphates
Aghiresu
anti-beauty quark
artesian well pump
assignment control number
axiom of parallels
Braxton-Hicks contraction
Browning's phenomenon
Burghley House
buried hildfast
center feeding
Coldbackie
condensational waves
constructive confrontation
current operating performance income statement
Customs Cooperation Council
cystine stone
damosel, damozel
decomposition agent
deflection winding
Dendrobium longicornu
departable
electromagnetostriction
emotion control
fractional monetary units
French horns
funible
glycolaldehydes
Harrington's solution
Hejce
high resolution visible
homosexual conduct
human contact
Hypalon
innubilous
interventions
ionization erosion
ISCOMS
Laprugne
leggett
lob along
lower-energy coast
lysogenic viruses
machilidaes
Magnolia fulva
maintenance mores
medianoscopy
Meier Helmbrecht
mesantoins
Meymeh
myostromin
myotonic muscular dystrophy
narrators
need of growth
news-wall
non-clients
non-system mark time request
ossa japonicum
patro-
pelecanine
Pentecostal Fellowship of North America
Pharmacochalzite
physical educations
pilot-actuated safety valve
poor maintenance of equipment
POS data
pressing powder
pressure, gauge
prostaglandin(s)
radio antenna truck
return chute
rosegolds
sclerotizations
shift driven shaft
short-half-life material
single office exchange
smilacaceous
smooth sequence
snow-slide
soft-touch control
sojo
spasmodized
strength freeboard
strikethrough
Styrax suberifolius
subpixel
succedaneously
tack welding
telecentric light
tension magnet
terminal artery
Time is up
tindered
transfer price
twenty-nines
unmodifiable
uredo microstegii
utilitarianise
vietnam block
vulgarness
zall