2006年VOA标准英语-Sri Lanka Ceasefire Monitors Blame Government T
时间：2019-01-13 作者：英语课 分类：2006年VOA标准英语（八月）
By Patricia Nunan
New Delhi
30 August 2006
Government soldiers patrol on the Mavilaaru reservoir tank bank in Mavilaaru, close to Muttur, Sri Lanka, Monday, August 28, 2006
International ceasefire monitors have blamed the Sri Lankan military for the massacre 1 earlier this month of 17 aid workers. The killings 2 took place in the east of the country, which has seen weeks of fighting that threatens to re-ignite the country's civil war.
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Ceasefire monitors say the Sri Lankan military was the only armed group in the eastern town of Muttur when the August 4 massacre took place.
Therefore, the observers from the international Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission, or SLMM, say security forces had to be responsible for the deaths.
The massacre was one of the most brutal 3 incidents in weeks of sporadic 4 clashes between the government and Tamil Tiger rebels. The violence threatens to return the country to the civil war waged for 20 years over the rebels' demand for a separate homeland for the country's ethnic 5 Tamil minority.
The aid workers were with the French organization, Action Against Hunger, and most were ethnic Tamils. Fifteen were found lying face down in the group's compound in Muttur. Witnesses say they were shot in the back of the head, execution-style. Two others were found dead in a car, apparently 6 murdered while trying to escape.
The SLMM released the findings of their investigation 7 into the incident Wednesday. The group says it was prevented from reaching Muttur for security reasons immediately after the massacre. They base their findings, they say, on reliable sources.
The government has denied its forces had anything to do with for the deaths and has begun its own investigation into the incident.
James Ross, a senior legal adviser 8 with the group Human Rights Watch, says that often, government investigations 9 are not good enough.
"One of the main problems that we've found in Sri Lanka over the years is the issue of impunity 10 - of serious crimes being committed and no serious action taken," said Ross. "Now there's been an investigation announced, but we've seen that before, where there's an investigation, and it just slowly fades away, it never gets concluded. And no one is prosecuted 11, and no one is convicted and sent to prison for serious crimes."
Ross says the massacre and other cases of violence against civilians 12 should compel the international community to consider sending United Nations human rights monitors to Sri Lanka.
But it is unlikely a new group of international observers will be deployed 13 any time soon.
Thursday is the deadline set by the Tamil Tigers for nearly half of the 57 ceasefire monitors to leave Sri Lanka. The rebels declared that monitors from European Union countries can not stay because the EU has named the group a terrorist organization.
The SLMM observers were deployed after the government and the Tamil Tigers signed a ceasefire in 2002, which now some say exists in name only.
- 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！
- His statement was seen as an allusion to the recent drug-related killings. 他的声明被视为暗指最近与毒品有关的多起凶杀案。
- The government issued a statement condemning the killings. 政府发表声明谴责这些凶杀事件。
- She has to face the brutal reality.她不得不去面对冷酷的现实。
- They're brutal people behind their civilised veneer.他们表面上温文有礼，骨子里却是野蛮残忍。
- The sound of sporadic shooting could still be heard.仍能听见零星的枪声。
- You know this better than I.I received only sporadic news about it.你们比我更清楚，而我听到的只是零星消息。
- 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。
- An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
- He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
- 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。
- They employed me as an adviser.他们聘请我当顾问。
- Our department has engaged a foreign teacher as phonetic adviser.我们系已经聘请了一位外籍老师作为语音顾问。
- His investigations were intensive and thorough but revealed nothing. 他进行了深入彻底的调查，但没有发现什么。
- He often sent them out to make investigations. 他常常派他们出去作调查。
- 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。
- The editors are being prosecuted for obscenity. 编辑因刊载污秽文字而被起诉。
- The company was prosecuted for breaching the Health and Safety Act. 这家公司被控违反《卫生安全条例》。
- 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。