VOA标准英语2012--Burma's Divided Rakhine Tests Old Friendships
时间：2019-01-14 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2012年(十二月)
Burma's Divided Rakhine Tests Old Friendships
Before it burned down, Myo Thu Gyi village was home to 70 households of both Rakhine Buddhists 1 and Rohingya Muslims.
Village chief Oo Kyaw Aung says he lived and worked side-by-side with Rohingya.
But, like most Rakhine, he calls Rohingya Bengalis, a reference to the widespread belief that they are illegal migrants from Bangladesh.
"I used to work a business together with Bengalis for fishing and selling fish. I also opened a tea shop. They were my regular customers," he recalled. "They were always at my tea shop, day and night. We were living together like relatives."
For more than 50 years one of his closest friends has been Rohingya Maung Phyu.
"Our family and their family are very close to each other. We are like real brothers. I ate food at his house. He also visited my home and ate with us," he said.
But since June, after Muslims allegedly raped 2 and murdered a Rakhine girl, revenge attacks and communal 3 violence quickly spread, increasing tensions across the state.
"When the violence started, I told my Bengali friends to leave the village as soon as possible because I didn't want to see them and their family get killed," said Oo Kyaw Aung.
The streets were not safe so Oo Kyaw Aung led Maung Phyu and his family fled to their boat. From offshore 4, they watched their village burn.
Like tens of thousands of other Rohingya, they now live in a relief camp near Sittwe.
Maung Phyu's son, Kyaw Myo, says they escaped because of Oo Kyaw Aung's warning but are not likely to return.
"Our family never fought with Rakhine families before. We have good relations with them," he said. "But, now I don't think we can live together again."
Kyaw Myo says the root cause of tension is a lack of equal rights and recognition of Rohingya as a people.
His father, Maung Phyu, agrees.
"We would like to get national identifications. My grandmother and grandfather were born here. I was born here too," Maung Phyu explained. "Now, I’m 61 years old. I want to get citizenship 5."
Although separated by communal violence, the two families stay in touch by phone.
But even lifelong friends do not always agree.
Oo Kyaw Aung says it was Bengalis from other villages who attacked and burned theirs while his Rohingya friends maintain it was Rakhine Buddhists.
- The Jesuits in a phase of ascendancy, persecuted and insulted the Buddhists with great acrimony. 处于地位上升阶段的耶稣会修士迫害佛教徒，用尖刻的语言辱骂他们。 来自英汉非文学 - 历史
- The return of Saivite rule to central Java had brought no antagonism between Buddhists and Hindus. 湿婆教在中爪哇恢复统治后，并没有导致佛教徒与印度教徒之间的对立。 来自辞典例句
- A young woman was brutally raped in her own home. 一名年轻女子在自己家中惨遭强暴。 来自辞典例句
- We got stick together, or we will be having our women raped. 我们得团结一致，不然我们的妻女就会遭到蹂躏。 来自辞典例句
- There was a communal toilet on the landing for the four flats.在楼梯平台上有一处公共卫生间供4套公寓使用。
- The toilets and other communal facilities were in a shocking state.厕所及其他公共设施的状况极其糟糕。
- A big program of oil exploration has begun offshore.一个大规模的石油勘探计划正在近海展开。
- A gentle current carried them slowly offshore.和缓的潮流慢慢地把他们带离了海岸。
- He was born in Sweden,but he doesn't have Swedish citizenship.他在瑞典出生，但没有瑞典公民身分。
- Ten years later,she chose to take Australian citizenship.十年后，她选择了澳大利亚国籍。