时间:2019-02-08 作者:英语课 分类:2006年VOA标准英语(十月)


英语课

By Jim Randle
Irbil, Iraq
09 October 2006






 
 
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Saddam Hussein reads the Quran as he listens to witness testimony, Monday, Oct. 9, 2006


 
 
 



Saddam Hussein's genocide trial has resumed in Baghdad after more than a week in recess 2, but defense 3 lawyers continued their boycott 4 of the court session. VOA's Jim Randle reports from the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, where the so-called Anfal campaign against Iraq Kurds was carried out in the 1980s.


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The former Iraqi leader took his seat in the defendants 5' fenced area, along with six co-defendants.


However, his lawyers were absent, continuing a boycott of the court sessions to protest removal of the previous chief judge, Abdullah al-Amiri, who was accused of being biased 6 in favor of Saddam.


Saddam and his cousin, Ali Hassan al-Majeed, also known as "Chemical Ali", and five former commanders are facing charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity for their roles in the 1988 campaign that prosecutors 7 say left 182,000 Kurds dead or missing.


Saddam and Majeed also face a charge of genocide. A conviction could send all the accused to the gallows 8.


When testimony began, Kurdish witnesses described their suffering during the Anfal campaign, when Saddam's forces attacked and destroyed thousands of villages, and allegedly ordered the use of chemical weapons against the town of Halabja.


Some witnesses asked that their names, faces, and even voices, be disguised to protect them from retaliation 9.


The hearings in this case have been turbulent, and Saddam has been thrown out of court three times.


Jiyan Azizz Bapier, a lawyer who represents many of the Anfal victims, says Saddam's courtroom actions, shouting at the judge and getting thrown out of court, appear designed to undercut the court's legitimacy 10, and perhaps unsettle the judge, so he makes mistakes.


In a separate trial, Saddam is waiting for a verdict on charges he committed crimes against humanity in the deaths of 148 Shi'ite men from the town of Dujail in the 1980s. That case is scheduled to reconvene on October 16 for judges to review witness testimony.



n.证词;见证,证明
  • The testimony given by him is dubious.他所作的证据是可疑的。
  • He was called in to bear testimony to what the police officer said.他被传入为警官所说的话作证。
n.短期休息,壁凹(墙上装架子,柜子等凹处)
  • The chairman of the meeting announced a ten-minute recess.会议主席宣布休会10分钟。
  • Parliament was hastily recalled from recess.休会的议员被匆匆召回开会。
n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩
  • 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。
n./v.(联合)抵制,拒绝参与
  • We put the production under a boycott.我们联合抵制该商品。
  • The boycott lasts a year until the Victoria board permitsreturn.这个抗争持续了一年直到维多利亚教育局妥协为止。
被告( defendant的名词复数 )
  • The courts heard that the six defendants had been coerced into making a confession. 法官审判时发现6位被告人曾被迫承认罪行。
  • As in courts, the defendants are represented by legal counsel. 与法院相同,被告有辩护律师作为代表。 来自英汉非文学 - 政府文件
a.有偏见的
  • a school biased towards music and art 一所偏重音乐和艺术的学校
  • The Methods: They employed were heavily biased in the gentry's favour. 他们采用的方法严重偏袒中上阶级。
检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 ); 告发人; 起诉人; 公诉人
  • In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方,检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
  • You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。
n.绞刑架,绞台
  • The murderer was sent to the gallows for his crimes.谋杀犯由于罪大恶极被处以绞刑。
  • Now I was to expiate all my offences at the gallows.现在我将在绞刑架上赎我一切的罪过。
n.报复,反击
  • retaliation against UN workers 对联合国工作人员的报复
  • He never said a single word in retaliation. 他从未说过一句反击的话。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.合法,正当
  • The newspaper was directly challenging the government's legitimacy.报纸直接质疑政府的合法性。
  • Managing from the top down,we operate with full legitimacy.我们进行由上而下的管理有充分的合法性。
学英语单词
acoronene
aerostatical
agriolimacids
allelopathic substance
ammonia-air fuel cell
anterior region of hypothalamus
ask for
availability clause
baubella
biographer
boat cloak
bojarski
bottom set bed
boystrous
burnwood
cattle deck
chlomy-P ointment
city building
clef
clerestory
commercial Diesel cycle
compound-nucleus model
congenital hemivertebra
construction of buildings
convergeth
crystal-encrusted
CT7n
czeizel
data transfer procedure
density of occupation
embadol
embane
excavation of fractured apex
export-led recovery
family camelidaes
fix a time
flower bud initiation
Furpiece
generator control desk
hexene
historical summary
impo
inner topology
Issehoved
jarped
jubayr
jump hose
koop
kuikin
liquid manure separator
Listerise
Massingham
Maxwellian velocity distribution
messes with
minivectors
nesocaedius taiwanus
neuroembryologist
never-wasser
Noarootsi
non-ascript
non-mendelism inheritance
oceanic mantle
operand token
ostracisms
outlashes
outside interference
perfect binding
plant output
Pollocksville
polus temporalis
Quarantine Bureau
rationalization method
releaser stimulus
rhinolithiasis
rotary knife
samarias
schnoogins
Sefarad
stationary bucket elevator
stereo systems
streetfighter
stunk up
subrounded hinge zone
sunset provisions
Swindon
tapered end rope
technolatry
teitel
terrace at entrance
terror birds
thuja plicatas
two-level grammar
U.K.A.
upper seam
utility lamp
venae utero-placentaris
voluntary redemption
Web services
whit-tuesdays
work-task
yoke radial cam with roller follower
zymolite