VOA慢速英语--以雅兹迪人交换IS犯人
时间：2018-12-08 作者：英语课 分类：2016年VOA慢速英语(三)月
AS IT IS 2016-03-31 Yazidis Exchanged for IS Prisoners 以雅兹迪人交换IS犯人
More than 50 Yazidi women and children were exchanged last week for Islamic State prisoners held by Kurdish forces in Syria.
Two IS commanders were exchanged for the women and children.
Kurds holding the two were part of the armed wing of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party, known as the YPG.
The women and children were returned home to Sinjar in northern Iraq. Sinjar is the main city for Yazidis in Iraq. It was liberated 2 from IS last year by Kurdish Peshmerga forces. Those fighters are supported by the U.S.-led coalition 3.
The Yazidis were taken from the same town 19 months ago, according to a Kurdish news agency.
“I have talked to some of them yesterday,” said Dawud Sheik Kalo, a Yazidi fighter. He said the women and children are safe.
A former prisoner told the Kurdish news agency she spent nine months in Iraq and 11 months in Syria.
A teenage Yazidi girl said her family was taken by IS.
“After we got to Syria, they separated the men from us,” she said. Media reports made no mention of Yazidi men being a part of the exchange.
Thousands of Yazidis were abducted 5 or killed by IS in northern Iraq beginning in 2014. Women and girls were forced into sexual slavery by IS members, human rights groups say.
Words in This Story
liberate 1 – v. to free someone or something from being controlled by another person or group?
abduct 4 – v. to take someone away from a place by force
- They did their best to liberate slaves.他们尽最大能力去解放奴隶。
- This will liberate him from economic worry.这将消除他经济上的忧虑。
- The city was liberated by the advancing army. 军队向前挺进，解放了那座城市。
- The heat brings about a chemical reaction, and oxygen is liberated. 热量引起化学反应，释放出氧气。
- The several parties formed a coalition.这几个政党组成了政治联盟。
- Coalition forces take great care to avoid civilian casualties.联盟军队竭尽全力避免造成平民伤亡。