2007年VOA标准英语-Rights Activists Condemn Somali Executions
时间:2019-01-31 作者:英语课 分类:2007年VOA标准英语(七月)
Nairobi
06 July 2007
International human rights activists 2 and lawyers are condemning 3 reports that Somalia's interim 4 government has carried out its first formal executions since the government body was formed with international backing in 2004. Two Somali men were put to death by a firing squad 5 Thursday, just days after they were arrested and found guilty in a military court. VOA Correspondent Alisha Ryu has details from our East Africa Bureau in Nairobi.
A Horn of Africa researcher for the London-based human rights group, Amnesty International, says his organization has not been able to obtain full details of the case.
But the researcher, Martin Hill, says based on what is known, he believes the men did not receive a fair trial before they were sentenced to death.
"It is very regrettable that one of the first well-known incidents of trial has resulted in swift executions without legal safeguards," said Hill. "If there had been a proper court constituted, with defense 6 lawyers who had been given time to consult their clients and present a defense, if there had been proper proceedings 7, if they had the right of appeal, to petition for clemency 8 at the end, these are the safeguards, which any judicial 9 system should incorporate and clearly, that is quite impossible in such a short period of time."
According to Mogadishu-based Shabelle Radio, government troops carried out the executions Thursday morning, after the two men were arrested and found guilty in the deaths of two government soldiers who belonged to a powerful clan 10 called the Darod.
Government officials did not allow any journalist to speak to the accused or witness the executions.
But Shabelle Radio says that an official from the Somali National Security Agency told its reporter that one of the condemned 11 men was a government soldier who joined a group of insurgents 12 in attacking a Somali military base in north Mogadishu.
VOA has learned that the government soldier and the other accused man belonged to a sub-clan of the Hawiye, Mogadishu's most dominant 13 clan and whose members make up the vast majority of the people waging a bloody 14 anti-government insurgency 15 in the capital.
Suspicion and anger is growing among the Hawiye that the government's top leader, Darod President Abdullahi Yusuf, may have played a role in the execution of the Hawiye men in an act of clan revenge.
The Darod is the Hawiye's chief rival for power in the capital. The Hawiye allege 16 that the soldiers who executed the men are loyal to the president, and they were simply seeking revenge for the deaths of two of their own by Hawiye insurgents.
The Reuters News Agency quotes government sources as saying the two executed men were Islamist insurgents who murdered a government official on Monday.
With hopes of ending more than a decade of clan warfare 17, the international community forced feuding 18 Somali factional leaders to form an interim government in 2004. In return for international support and financial help, interim leaders promised to end clan politics and pave the way for democratic elections to be held in 2009.
But a prominent Kenyan human rights activist 1, Harun Ndubi, says Somalia's transitional federal government, which took power in Mogadishu six months ago after ousting 19 a group of radical 20 Islamists, has done little to prove it can fulfill 21 that promise.
"They are a government of warlords," said Ndubi. "But if they expect to be accepted by the rest of the civilized 22 community, then they must defrock themselves of the warlord cloaks they are wearing and start behaving like a government of civility, a government that respects human rights."
Seven other men the government says were involved in the attack on the Somali military base have been sentenced to 15 years in prison.
- He's been a trade union activist for many years.多年来他一直是工会的积极分子。
- He is a social activist in our factory.他是我厂的社会活动积极分子。
- 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》
- The government issued a statement condemning the killings. 政府发表声明谴责这些凶杀事件。
- I concur with the speaker in condemning what has been done. 我同意发言者对所做的事加以谴责。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- The government is taking interim measures to help those in immediate need.政府正在采取临时措施帮助那些有立即需要的人。
- It may turn out to be an interim technology.这可能只是个过渡技术。
- The squad leader ordered the men to mark time.班长命令战士们原地踏步。
- A squad is the smallest unit in an army.班是军队的最小构成单位。
- 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。
- He was released on bail pending committal proceedings. 他交保获释正在候审。
- to initiate legal proceedings against sb 对某人提起诉讼
- The question of clemency would rest with the King.宽大处理问题,将由国王决定。
- They addressed to the governor a plea for clemency.他们向州长提交了宽刑的申辨书。
- He is a man with a judicial mind.他是个公正的人。
- Tom takes judicial proceedings against his father.汤姆对他的父亲正式提出诉讼。
- She ranks as my junior in the clan.她的辈分比我小。
- The Chinese Christians,therefore,practically excommunicate themselves from their own clan.所以,中国的基督徒简直是被逐出了自己的家族了。
- The regular troops of Baden joined the insurgents. 巴登的正规军参加到起义军方面来了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Against the Taliban and Iraqi insurgents, these problems are manageable. 要对付塔利班与伊拉克叛乱分子,这些问题还是可以把握住的。 来自互联网
- The British were formerly dominant in India.英国人从前统治印度。
- She was a dominant figure in the French film industry.她在法国电影界是个举足轻重的人物。
- He got a bloody nose in the fight.他在打斗中被打得鼻子流血。
- He is a bloody fool.他是一个十足的笨蛋。
- And as in China, unrest and even insurgency are widespread. 而在中国,动乱甚至暴乱都普遍存在。 来自互联网
- Dr Zyphur is part an insurgency against this idea. 塞弗博士是这一观点逆流的一部分。 来自互联网
- The newspaper reporters allege that the man was murdered but they have given no proof.新闻记者们宣称这个男人是被谋杀的,但他们没提出证据。
- Students occasionally allege illness as the reason for absence.学生时不时会称病缺课。
- He addressed the audience on the subject of atomic warfare.他向听众演讲有关原子战争的问题。
- Their struggle consists mainly in peasant guerrilla warfare.他们的斗争主要是农民游击战。
- Riccardo and Cafiero had been feuding so openly that the whole town knew about it. 里卡多和卡菲埃罗一直公开地闹别扭,全城的人都知道此事。 来自辞典例句
- The two families have been feuding with each other for many generations. 这两个家族有好多代的世仇了。 来自互联网
- The resulting financial chaos led to the ousting of Bristol-Myers' s boss. 随后引发的财政混乱导致了百时美施贵宝的总裁下台。
- The ousting of the president has drawn widespread criticism across Latin America and the wider world. 洪都拉斯总统被驱逐时间引起拉丁美洲甚至全世界的广泛批评。
- The patient got a radical cure in the hospital.病人在医院得到了根治。
- She is radical in her demands.她的要求十分偏激。
- If you make a promise you should fulfill it.如果你许诺了,你就要履行你的诺言。
- This company should be able to fulfill our requirements.这家公司应该能够满足我们的要求。