PBS高端访谈:缅甸穆斯林"罗兴亚人"的糟糕处境

 　　GWEN IFILL: The plight¹ of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims finally grabbed headlines only recently, after thousands were trapped at sea. Malaysia and Vietnam have since allowed some of them in. But about 300 Rohingyas have already died at sea this year. And there are reports of others still stranded².

　　Earlier today, President Obama warned Myanmar, the country formerly³ known as Burma, that if it wants to become a successful democracy, it needs to take its treatment of the Rohingya minority seriously.

　　We take a closer look tonight at that treatment.

　　Lucy Watson of Independent Television News traveled in Myanmar's Rakhine State, and filed this report.

　　LUCY WATSON: Life for the Rohingya community is one of rejection⁴ and suffering, stateless Muslims stigmatized⁵ and segregated⁶ in Buddhist⁷ Myanmar, regarded as illegal immigrants, so looking for any escape.

　　Gilda Bagoom and her family tried. They fled to Malaysia on a trip with 400 others, an ordeal⁸ that lasted 50 days. They were rescued two weeks ago.

　　WOMAN (through interpreter): We got a handful of rice a day. We had to sit in the same place for the whole trip. If you moved, you got beaten.

　　WOMAN (through interpreter): The Thai crew was so brutal⁹. Some days, I just wanted to jump into the sea. I wished I was dead. It was so hard.

　　LUCY WATSON: But Zura Bayan's husband left more than a month ago. Their family has heard nothing of him since.

　　WOMAN (through interpreter): I'm so worried about him. I think he must be dead. I'm terrified for my sister and the future of her children. It's so difficult for them here. They have little to survive on.

　　LUCY WATSON: A million Rohingyas are confined to Rakhine State, 140,000 of them living in camps like these. They see their existence like living in a prison. That is the root of the problem that is pushing them into the clutches of the traffickers, traffickers who are known to them.

　　One agreed to talk to ITV News.

　　MAN (through interpreter): There are lots of us breakers here. We earn 150 pounds a person when we take them to the big ship.

　　LUCY WATSON: This minority with little access to education, medicines or sanitation¹⁰ is being capitalized on, as the government still refuses to class some as Burmese.

　　U TING MAUNG SWE, Rakhine State Executive Secretary: I'm afraid and I'm worried. Some people, they don't follow our program and they don't — they don't — they are refusing to apply citizenship¹¹. So, that's why this is a big problem.

　　LUCY WATSON: But while Rohingyas' homes are gated and their movements monitored, the desire for real freedom via the sea won't fade.

1 plight   

n.困境，境况，誓约，艰难；vt.宣誓，保证，约定

参考例句：

• The leader was much concerned over the plight of the refugees.那位领袖对难民的困境很担忧。
• She was in a most helpless plight.她真不知如何是好。

2 stranded   

a.搁浅的，进退两难的

参考例句：

• He was stranded in a strange city without money. 他流落在一个陌生的城市里， 身无分文，一筹莫展。
• I was stranded in the strange town without money or friends. 我困在那陌生的城市，既没有钱，又没有朋友。

3 formerly   

adv.从前，以前

参考例句：

• We now enjoy these comforts of which formerly we had only heard.我们现在享受到了过去只是听说过的那些舒适条件。
• This boat was formerly used on the rivers of China.这船从前航行在中国内河里。

4 rejection   

n.拒绝，被拒，抛弃，被弃

参考例句：

• He decided not to approach her for fear of rejection.他因怕遭拒绝决定不再去找她。
• The rejection plunged her into the dark depths of despair.遭到拒绝使她陷入了绝望的深渊。

5 stigmatized   

v.使受耻辱，指责，污辱( stigmatize的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He was stigmatized as an ex-convict. 他遭人污辱，说他给判过刑。 来自辞典例句
• Such a view has been stigmatized as mechanical jurisprudence. 蔑称这种观点为机械法学。 来自辞典例句

6 segregated   

分开的； 被隔离的

参考例句：

• a culture in which women are segregated from men 妇女受到隔离歧视的文化
• The doctor segregated the child sick with scarlet fever. 大夫把患猩红热的孩子隔离起来。

7 Buddhist   

adj./n.佛教的，佛教徒

参考例句：

• The old lady fell down in adoration before Buddhist images.那老太太在佛像面前顶礼膜拜。
• In the eye of the Buddhist,every worldly affair is vain.在佛教徒的眼里，人世上一切事情都是空的。

8 ordeal   

n.苦难经历，（尤指对品格、耐力的）严峻考验

参考例句：

• She managed to keep her sanity throughout the ordeal.在那场磨难中她始终保持神志正常。
• Being lost in the wilderness for a week was an ordeal for me.在荒野里迷路一星期对我来说真是一场磨难。

9 brutal   

adj.残忍的，野蛮的，不讲理的

参考例句：

• She has to face the brutal reality.她不得不去面对冷酷的现实。
• They're brutal people behind their civilised veneer.他们表面上温文有礼，骨子里却是野蛮残忍。

10 sanitation   

n.公共卫生，环境卫生，卫生设备

参考例句：

• The location is exceptionally poor,viewed from the sanitation point.从卫生角度来看，这个地段非常糟糕。
• Many illnesses are the result,f inadequate sanitation.许多疾病都来源于不健全的卫生设施。

11 citizenship   

n.市民权，公民权，国民的义务(身份)

参考例句：

• He was born in Sweden,but he doesn't have Swedish citizenship.他在瑞典出生，但没有瑞典公民身分。
• Ten years later,she chose to take Australian citizenship.十年后，她选择了澳大利亚国籍。