非洲－东非军事官员们讨论受争议的索马里维和任务

 

East African Military Officials Discuss Controversial Somali Peacekeeping Mission

 

Ugandan military spokesman, Shaban Bantariza, says senior military officials from the seven-member Inter-Governmental Authority on Development, known as IGAD, are in talks in Entebbe to lay the groundwork for a Somali peacekeeping mission.

 

Mr. Bantariza says that IGAD officials from Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan and Uganda, are discussing, among other things, the number of troops needed, logistics, and setting out a budget for the mission.

 

Mr. Bantariza: So, right now, it is the technical team of experts that is working on those finer details of that deployment², after which they will present their recommendations to the chiefs of defense³ forces. After that, there will be a meeting by the ministers of defense and then we can get closer to the deployment date.

 

The IGAD talks are in response to a request the African Union made last month to deploy¹ an interim⁴ peace mission in Somalia ahead of a larger African Union peacekeeping force.

 

The goal of the interim mission is to help Somalia's nearly five month-old transitional government gain a safe foothold in the violence-plagued Somali capital of Mogadishu. On-going clashes there have prevented government leaders, including the president and the prime minister, from relocating from their current base in Nairobi, Kenya.

 

But Somali opposition⁵ to deploying⁶ troops from Ethiopia, Djibouti, and Kenya has become increasingly organized and vocal⁷ in recent weeks.

 

On Sunday, hundreds of people demonstrated in the streets of Mogadishu, vowing⁸ to defend Somalia with their lives if peacekeepers from neighboring countries were sent. Opponents argue that Somalia's neighbors may harbor geopolitical interests, which could undermine what is supposed to be a neutral peacekeeping mission.

 

In a rare show of support for the United States, Somali protesters waved signs that read "America's view is the correct one." The signs referred to remarks made last Thursday by State Department Spokesman Richard Boucher, who urged Djibouti, Ethiopia and Kenya not to inflame⁹ Somalis by putting troops on their soil.

 

Many Somalis are particularly against the idea of including Ethiopian troops in the peacekeeping mission. The two countries fought a bitter war in the late 1970s over the disputed Ogaden region and relations have been tense ever since. Ethiopia has said that it would send troops to Somalia.

 

Somalia has not had a functioning government since 1991, when a coalition¹⁰ of warlords overthrew¹¹ the regime of Somali dictator Mohammed Siad Barre. The warlords then turned on each other, carving¹² up Somalia into clan-based fiefdoms defended by heavily-armed militias¹³.

 

In the latest violence, at least 12 people were killed and another 35 wounded on Saturday after inter-clan fighting erupted in the Hobyo district in central Somalia.

 

Officials of the government-in-exile have repeatedly pledged to return, only to delay the move because of security concerns.

 

Alisha Ryu, VOA news, Nairobi.

 

注释：

Entebbe [en5tebE] 恩德培[乌干达南部城市](在维多利亚湖畔)

Somali [sEu5mB:li] n. (东非国家)索马里族(人) 索马里语

peacekeeping [5pi:s9ki:piN] adj. 维护和平的，执行(或监督)停火协定的

Djibouti [dVi5bu:ti] 吉布提[非洲]

Eritrea [7eri5tri(:)E] n. 厄立特里亚

recommendation [7rekEmen5deiFEn] n. 建议

foothold [5fJthEJld] n. 立足处

Mogadishu [9mR:^B:5di:FU:] 摩加迪沙[索马里首都]

Nairobi [7naiE5rEubi] n. 奈洛比

geopolitical [7dVi(:)EupE5litikEl] adj. 地理政治学的

inflame [in5fleim] v. 燃烧

Ogaden [EJ5^B:den] 欧加登[埃塞俄比亚东南部一地区](或译奥加登)

warlord [5wC:lC:d] n. 军阀，军阀式首脑

dictator [dik5teitE] n. 独裁者，独裁政权执政者

fiefdom n. (=fief)封地，采邑

1 deploy   

v.（军）散开成战斗队形，布置，展开

参考例句：

• The infantry began to deploy at dawn.步兵黎明时开始进入战斗位置。
• The president said he had no intention of deploying ground troops.总统称并不打算部署地面部队。

2 deployment   

n. 部署,展开

参考例句：

• He has inquired out the deployment of the enemy troops. 他已查出敌军的兵力部署情况。
• Quality function deployment (QFD) is a widely used customer-driven quality, design and manufacturing management tool. 质量功能展开(quality function deployment,QFD)是一个广泛应用的顾客需求驱动的设计、制造和质量管理工具。

3 defense   

n.防御，保卫；[pl.]防务工事；辩护，答辩

参考例句：

• 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。

4 interim   

adj.暂时的，临时的；n.间歇，过渡期间

参考例句：

• The government is taking interim measures to help those in immediate need.政府正在采取临时措施帮助那些有立即需要的人。
• It may turn out to be an interim technology.这可能只是个过渡技术。

5 opposition   

n.反对，敌对

参考例句：

• The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
• The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。

6 deploying   

（尤指军事行动）使展开( deploy的现在分词 )； 施展； 部署； 有效地利用

参考例句：

• Provides support for developing and deploying distributed, component-based applications. 为开发和部署基于组件的分布式应用程序提供支持。
• Advertisement, publishing, repair, and install-on-demand are all available when deploying your application. 在部署应用程序时提供公布、发布、修复和即需即装功能。

7 vocal   

adj.直言不讳的；嗓音的；n.[pl.]声乐节目

参考例句：

• The tongue is a vocal organ.舌头是一个发音器官。
• Public opinion at last became vocal.终于舆论哗然。

8 vowing   

起誓，发誓（vow的现在分词形式）

参考例句：

• President Bush is vowing to help Minneapolis rebuild its collapsed bridge. 布什总统承诺将帮助明尼阿波利斯重建坍塌的大桥。
• President Bush is vowing to help Minneapolis rebuild this collapse bridge. 布什总统发誓要帮助明尼阿波利斯重建起这座坍塌的桥梁。

9 inflame   

v.使燃烧；使极度激动；使发炎

参考例句：

• Our lack of response seemed to inflame the colonel.由于我们没有反应,好象惹恼了那个上校。
• Chemical agents manufactured by our immune system inflame our cells and tissues,causing our nose to run and our throat to swell.我们的免疫系统产生的化学物质导致我们的细胞和组织发炎，导致我们流鼻水和我们的喉咙膨胀。

10 coalition   

n.结合体，同盟，结合，联合

参考例句：

• 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。

11 overthrew   

overthrow的过去式

参考例句：

• The people finally rose up and overthrew the reactionary regime. 人们终于起来把反动的政权推翻了。
• They overthrew their King. 他们推翻了国王。

12 carving   

n.雕刻品，雕花

参考例句：

• All the furniture in the room had much carving.房间里所有的家具上都有许多雕刻。
• He acquired the craft of wood carving in his native town.他在老家学会了木雕手艺。

13 militias   

n.民兵组织，民兵( militia的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The troops will not attempt to disarm the warring militias. 部队并不打算解除战斗中的民兵武装。 来自辞典例句
• The neighborhood was a battleground for Shiite and Sunni militias. 那里曾是什叶派和逊尼派武装分子的战场。 来自互联网