VOA标准英语2010年-Former Kenyan Police Chief Denied Entr
时间：2019-02-02 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2010年(一月)
U.S. embassy officials say Kenya's former police chief has been denied a visa. Human-rights activists 1 have welcomed the news, alleging 2 gross rights violations 3 committed by the police force under Hussein Ali's command.
On Tuesday the U.S. embassy confirmed that it had denied a request from Hussein Ali for a travel visa. The former police head and now-postmaster general had reportedly sought the visa to visit Los Angeles for official business.
In September, U.S. Ambassador Michael Ranneberger announced that in an effort to speed up the nation's reform process 15 senior Kenyan officials were being threatened with travel bans. Weeks later the ambassador confirmed Attorney General Amos Wako had been barred from entering the United States, and that three others were expected to be banned.
The U.S. envoy 4 refused to say whether Ali had been placed under a full travel ban, nor whether he was on the original targeted list of 15 individuals.
Outspoken 5 Kenyan lawyer Paul Muite says that the former police chief's legacy 6 is not highly regarded within the human rights community.
"Those of us who have been in the human rights fight welcome that [the visa denial] a lot," Muite said. "He certainly aggravated 7 one particular issue regarding human rights - extra-judicial 8 executions."
Kenya's police have come under sustained criticism the past few years. They are accused of being directly responsible for hundreds of deaths during the post-election violence that shook the nation in early 2008 following the disputed presidential poll between President Mwai Kibaki and now Prime Minister Raila Odinga.
Human-rights groups have also reported that hundreds of youth were secretly killed during the government's crackdown on the Mungiki sect 9, originally an ethnic 10 Kikuyu religious movement that became an outlawed 11 gang.
Muite says these killings 13 were not only gross violations of the law but also took the lives of many innocent youth.
"The majority of those extra-judicially executed were not even members of Mungiki," he added. "There appears to have been a 'scorched 14 earth' policy of killing 12 Kikuyu youth."
The police have always denied these charges.
Amid pressure to reform the police, Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki in September removed Ali from his post and made him postmaster general, replacing him with the head of the police force's paramilitary arm.
On Tuesday, Ambassador Ranneberger praised Kenya for its reform efforts and its progress towards arriving at a new constitution. But the U.S. envoy said that his nation was not pleased with a faltering 15 will to fight government and judicial corruption 16 and to provide justice for the victims of post-election violence.
Kenyan authorities have acknowledged the government's failure to create a local tribunal to try the orchestrators of the politically-instigated bloodshed. The chief prosecutor 17 for the International Criminal Court has announced his intent to investigate the violence and prosecute 18 those most responsible.
- 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》
- His reputation was blemished by a newspaper article alleging he'd evaded his taxes. 由于报上一篇文章声称他曾逃税，他的名誉受到损害。
- This our Peeress declined as unnecessary, alleging that her cousin Thornhill's recommendation would be sufficient. 那位贵人不肯，还说不必，只要有她老表唐希尔保荐就够了。
- This is one of the commonest traffic violations. 这是常见的违反交通规则之例。
- These violations of the code must cease forthwith. 这些违犯法规的行为必须立即停止。
- Their envoy showed no sign of responding to our proposals.他们的代表对我方的提议毫无回应的迹象。
- The government has not yet appointed an envoy to the area.政府尚未向这一地区派过外交官。
- He was outspoken in his criticism.他在批评中直言不讳。
- She is an outspoken critic of the school system in this city.她是这座城市里学校制度的坦率的批评者。
- They are the most precious cultural legacy our forefathers left.它们是我们祖先留下来的最宝贵的文化遗产。
- He thinks the legacy is a gift from the Gods.他认为这笔遗产是天赐之物。
- If he aggravated me any more I shall hit him. 假如他再激怒我，我就要揍他。
- Far from relieving my cough, the medicine aggravated it. 这药非但不镇咳，反而使我咳嗽得更厉害。
- 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。
- When he was sixteen he joined a religious sect.他16岁的时候加入了一个宗教教派。
- Each religious sect in the town had its own church.该城每一个宗教教派都有自己的教堂。
- 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。
- Most states have outlawed the use of marijuana. 大多数州都宣布使用大麻为非法行为。
- I hope the sale of tobacco will be outlawed someday. 我希望有朝一日烟草制品会禁止销售。
- 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。
- 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。
- I scorched my dress when I was ironing it. 我把自己的连衣裙熨焦了。
- The hot iron scorched the tablecloth. 热熨斗把桌布烫焦了。
- The economy shows no signs of faltering. 经济没有衰退的迹象。
- I canfeel my legs faltering. 我感到我的腿在颤抖。
- The people asked the government to hit out against corruption and theft.人民要求政府严惩贪污盗窃。
- The old man reviled against corruption.那老人痛斥了贪污舞弊。
- The defender argued down the prosecutor at the court.辩护人在法庭上驳倒了起诉人。
- The prosecutor would tear your testimony to pieces.检查官会把你的证言驳得体无完肤。