雅兹迪人寻求帮助（在线收听）

Yazidi Americans Seek Help for their People 雅兹迪人寻求帮助

LINCOLN, NEBRASKA—

A park in Lincoln, Nebraska is a favorite gathering place for the close to 1,000 people who constitute the largest Yazidi community in North America.

内布拉斯加林肯这座公园是近1000人最喜欢的聚集地。他们组成了北美最大的雅兹迪社区。

Many of the men served as translators for the U.S. military, which eased the way to asylum for them and their families. Others came through refugee assistance programs.

许多人为美国军队担任翻译。美国军队让他们和他们的家人获得收容更加容易。其他人则通过难民救助项目来到这里。

The Yazidi have found a peaceful, happy life here in Nebraska, but they cannot forget the suffering of their people back home.

这些雅兹迪人在内布拉斯加找到了和平快乐的生活，但是他们不能忘记祖国的人们的遭遇。

Faisal, a Yazidi American, has not heard from his sister and her family in Iraq since Islamic State fighters seized them last year.

雅兹迪美国人Faisal自去年伊斯兰国激进组织战士抓走他的姐妹和她的家人之后再也没得到他们的消息。

“I don’t think ever anything happened or anything came up as bad as the Islamic State to this world.  This is the worst thing,” he said.

“我难以想象还有什么事情比伊斯兰国激进组织这么糟糕。这是最可怕的事情。”

Through the Yazda organization, formed by Yazidi Americans last year, 18-year-old Feryal Pirali has posted an online petition to President Obama.

通过去年由雅兹迪美国人成立的Yazda组织，18岁的Feryal Pirali在网上向奥巴马总统发表了请愿书。

“We ask mister president, Barack Obama, to help us and the females, the girls, the women who have been captured and used as sex slavery,” said Pirali.

“我们请求奥巴马先生帮助我们，帮助被抓捕用作性奴的妇女和女孩。”

Yazda Vice President Hadi Pir said the Yazidi are in greater need of help than Syrian refugees.

Yazda副主席Hadi Pir表示，雅兹迪人比叙利亚难民更需要帮助。

“Syrian refugees are a temporary problem. It is going to be a temporary problem, but I believe the Yazidi situation is maybe even a permanent one.  What if IS’ next move is inside Kurdistan territory? …All the Yazidis are concentrated there,” said Pir.

“叙利亚难民只是暂时性的问题，也只会是一个暂时性的问题。但是我相信，雅兹迪人的处境将是永久性的。如果IS的下一步行动是在库尔德斯坦境内呢？所有雅兹迪人都集中在那里。”

Yazidis are Kurdish-speaking Iraqi nationals, but many Muslims reject them as infidels because their religion borrows from many traditions.

雅兹迪人是说库尔德语的伊拉克人，但是许多穆斯林排斥他们为异教徒，因为他们的宗教借鉴自许多传统。

The Yazidis differ from most other refugees in that Islamic State has specifically targeted them for genocide.

雅兹迪人有别于大部分其他难民，因为伊斯兰国故意针对他们进行种族大屠杀。

More than 90,000 petition signers have shown support for the Yazidi cause, but the United States, Russia and regional governments have yet to agree on a coordinated strategy against Islamic State, and the Yazidis remain just a small part of the Middle East’s refugee crisis.

超过9万名请愿书签名者都表达了对雅兹迪事业的支持，但是美国，俄罗斯和区域政府还未就打击伊斯兰国激进组织的联合战略达成一致。而雅兹迪人只是中东地区难民危机的一小部分。