2006年VOA标准英语-Activists in US Rally for Peace in Darfur as An
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By Catherine Maddux
Washington
20 June 2006
Demonstrators stage protest over Darfur in front of White House
Activists 1 held rallies in several cities across the United States Tuesday to call for peace in Sudan's western Darfur region. Meanwhile, experts gathered to discuss continuing roadblocks to implement 2 a peace deal signed by the Sudanese government and one rebel group in May.
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As people rallied near the White House for strong U.S. action to stop the war in Darfur, a panel of experts gathered across town to discuss the crisis.
Kenneth Bacon, a former assistant secretary of defense 3 and president of Refugees International, describes the current situation in Darfur as a series of paradoxes 4. "We have made a very large diplomatic and humanitarian 6 investment. And yet the diplomatic efforts have produced a peace agreement and yet the peace agreement has not brought peace. In fact, the situation has gotten worse in many respects," he said.
Bacon emphasized the situation has deteriorated 7 rather than improved ever since the signing of the peace deal on May 5 in Abuja, Nigeria. He called the agreement imperfect and only a starting point. "We've actually had a deterioration 8 of humanitarian conditions for two reasons: one, the World Food Program does not have enough money. It announced it was cutting rations 10 in half. It got some more money and food after it made its announcement. It's now providing 84 percent of its ration 9 goal this month ... but it's unclear what it's going to be able to do for the rest of the year. Second, the delivery of humanitarian materials has gotten much more difficult in vast parts of Darfur because the security has declined," he said.
While Bacon praised the strong diplomatic intervention 11 by the United States government, he called on the audience to press for more action to protect civilians 12, stop the killing 13 and end the war. "We have to be more involved. Nothing has happened here without U.S. involvement. U.S. involvement is crucial to making progress here," he said.
There has been some movement toward approving a United Nations peacekeeping force to augment 14 the beleaguered 15 and underfunded African Union operation already on the ground in Darfur. But the U.N. cannot deploy 16 a single soldier until the Sudanese government agrees to such a force, something Khartoum rejects.
Tuesday, Sudanese state media reported that President Omar al-Bashir vowed 17 he will never allow U.N. peacekeepers into Darfur, saying his country would not be "recolonized."
Nurradin Mannan, a retired 18 Sudanese diplomat 5, said Khartoum is afraid of a Chapter Seven mandate 19 that would accompany such a U.N. operation, a mandate that has the power to use armed force to protect civilians and to confront combatants accused of committing atrocities 20. "These people are worried about chapter seven because this is going to drag them to the International Criminal Court. There are 51 [people] accused of war crimes in Sudan and this will give the U.N. the power, the right, to investigate those who are accused," he said.
Ann-Louise Colgan, the acting 21 co-executive director for the group which organized Tuesday's rallies, Africa Action. She says following the signing of the Darfur accord in Abuja last month, there was a sense of optimism. But she echoed her co-panelists, saying the deal is now clearly unraveling. And she criticized the United States and the international community for not working harder to protect civilians and humanitarian workers. "We have heard from the U.S. a lot of rhetorical commitment to standing 22 by what happened in Abuja and to protecting the people of Darfur and ensuring that peace takes hold in the region. We've also seen some action on the part of the United Nations. But there really has not been sufficient concrete actions to address this deteriorating 23 security situation on the ground," she said.
Even though the situation in Darfur has worsened, Ms. Colgan says she remains 24 hopeful. "We have this poster in our conference room at Africa Action and it has this anonymous 25 quote on it. And the quote simply says 'you have no idea how many lives can be saved if you end the violence one month earlier,' " she said.
But as analysts 26 discuss and activists try to apply pressure, an estimated two million people in Darfur are displaced, living in vast camps. And more than 180,000 others have been killed over the course of three years of conflict.
- His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
- Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Don't undertake a project unless you can implement it.不要承担一项计划,除非你能完成这项计划。
- The best implement for digging a garden is a spade.在花园里挖土的最好工具是铁锹。
- The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
- The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
- Contradictions and paradoxes arose in increasing numbers. 矛盾和悖论越来越多。 来自辞典例句
- As far as these paradoxes are concerned, the garden definitely a heterotopia. 就这些吊诡性而言,花园无疑地是个异质空间。 来自互联网
- The diplomat threw in a joke, and the tension was instantly relieved.那位外交官插进一个笑话,紧张的气氛顿时缓和下来。
- He served as a diplomat in Russia before the war.战前他在俄罗斯当外交官。
- 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。
- Her health deteriorated rapidly, and she died shortly afterwards. 她的健康状况急剧恶化,不久便去世了。
- His condition steadily deteriorated. 他的病情恶化,日甚一日。
- Mental and physical deterioration both occur naturally with age. 随着年龄的增长,心智和体力自然衰退。
- The car's bodywork was already showing signs of deterioration. 这辆车的车身已经显示出了劣化迹象。
- The country cut the bread ration last year.那个国家去年削减面包配给量。
- We have to ration the water.我们必须限量用水。
- They are provisioned with seven days' rations. 他们得到了7天的给养。
- The soldiers complained that they were getting short rations. 士兵们抱怨他们得到的配给不够数。
- The government's intervention in this dispute will not help.政府对这场争论的干预不会起作用。
- Many people felt he would be hostile to the idea of foreign intervention.许多人觉得他会反对外来干预。
- 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。
- Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
- Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
- They hit upon another idea to augment their income.他们又想出一个增加收入的办法。
- The government's first concern was to augment the army and auxiliary forces.政府首先关心的是增强军队和辅助的力量。
- The beleaguered party leader was forced to resign. 那位饱受指责的政党领导人被迫辞职。
- We are beleaguered by problems. 我们被许多困难所困扰。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The infantry began to deploy at dawn.步兵黎明时开始进入战斗位置。
- The president said he had no intention of deploying ground troops.总统称并不打算部署地面部队。
- He vowed quite solemnly that he would carry out his promise. 他非常庄严地发誓要实现他的诺言。
- I vowed to do more of the cooking myself. 我发誓自己要多动手做饭。
- The old man retired to the country for rest.这位老人下乡休息去了。
- Many retired people take up gardening as a hobby.许多退休的人都以从事园艺为嗜好。
- The President had a clear mandate to end the war.总统得到明确的授权结束那场战争。
- The General Election gave him no such mandate.大选并未授予他这种权力。
- 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》
- Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她,她只是假装的。
- During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代,她的表演生涯黯然失色。
- After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
- They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
- The weather conditions are deteriorating. 天气变得越来越糟。
- I was well aware of the bad morale and the deteriorating factories. 我很清楚,大家情绪低落,各个工厂越搞越坏。
- He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
- The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
- Sending anonymous letters is a cowardly act.寄匿名信是懦夫的行为。
- The author wishes to remain anonymous.作者希望姓名不公开。