VOA标准英语2012--Violence Forces Burmese Muslims Out of Kyaukphyu
时间：2018-12-16 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2012年(十二月)
Violence Forces Burmese Muslims Out of Kyaukphyu
Little is left of this once vibrant 1 Muslim fishing village.
A month after fires leveled the community, those who once lived here are now part of the more than 100,000 displaced in Rakhine state still too afraid to return home.
As scavengers from a neighboring village pick through the rubble 2, Nu Nu Khin repeats the widespread view among Buddhists 3 here: the Muslims, she says, did this themselves.
"Because of religious tensions between Rakhines and Muslims, they attacked and set fire to the whole village," she said. "They set fire to their own houses and mosques 4 in order to burn down Rakhine houses."
Others here say Muslims accidentally set fire to their own homes while trying to attack their neighbors.
Or they burned their own houses for international sympathy and in hopes they would get new ones from aid groups.
That view is repeated by the spokesman for Rakhine State Win Myaing.
"They set fire to their own houses," he said. "Rakhine houses were also burned. And then they ran away to refugee camps. I could see the evidence that they still had their cooking utensils 5 and belongings 6 the next day after the fire."
In the camps around Rakhine’s main city, Sittwe, where many Kaman Muslims fled, there is a different view: Muslims were attacked by Rakhine Buddhists backed by soldiers.
Nwe Ni Zin Myint, 16, says her family lost everything in the fire and all they have now was donated.
"On that day, soldiers were in the front line," she said. "A group of Rakhine villagers were at the back of them. Soldiers pointed 7 their guns toward us and shouted not to move. When Muslims moved forward, soldiers shot them down."
That allegation against security forces is not shared by Muslims from other Kyaukphyu neighborhoods such as Linn Ei Ei Aung. She says soldiers in fact saved her from Rakhine mobs.
"They came and searched for us to kill us, so we ran away," she said. "They surrounded us with a big group. Soldiers protected us from them and brought us here."
While Burmese authorities try to piece together the varying accounts of what happened here, Muslim residents are being protected by soldiers in these temporary camps.
Even those whose homes were not burned are here for their safety.
Authorities say they are not sure when these people will be able to return home.
- He always uses vibrant colours in his paintings. 他在画中总是使用鲜明的色彩。
- She gave a vibrant performance in the leading role in the school play.她在学校表演中生气盎然地扮演了主角。
- After the earthquake,it took months to clean up the rubble.地震后，花了数月才清理完瓦砾。
- After the war many cities were full of rubble.战后许多城市到处可见颓垣残壁。
- 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
- Why make us believe that this tunnel runs underneath the mosques? 为什么要让我们相信这条隧洞是在清真寺下？
- The city's three biggest mosques, long fallen into disrepair, have been renovated. 城里最大的三座清真寺，过去年久失修，现在已经修复。
- Formerly most of our household utensils were made of brass. 以前我们家庭用的器皿多数是用黄铜做的。
- Some utensils were in a state of decay when they were unearthed. 有些器皿在出土时已经残破。
- I put a few personal belongings in a bag.我把几件私人物品装进包中。
- Your personal belongings are not dutiable.个人物品不用纳税。