2006年VOA标准英语-Warring Sides in Ivory Coast Condemn Sanct

By Nico Colombant
Abidjan
08 February 2006

Rebels hold half the country  
  
Supporters of Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo and northern rebels are both accusing the United Nations of failing to understand the civil war, after some of their leaders are slapped with sanctions.

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Rebel spokesman Sidiki Konate says the decision by the Security Council to sanction Fofie Kouakou, a commander in the northern Ivory Coast Korhogo zone, was in his words, "cowardly."

He said sanctions should only have been applied¹ to those behind recent anti-U.N. violence in the government-held south.

Kouakou says he is fully² engaged in the peace process. But the Security Council said he was interfering³ by recruiting militias⁵, including child soldiers, abusing women, and ordering extrajudicial killings⁶.

Youth leaders were behind recent rioting  
  
He has been slapped with a travel sanction and an asset freeze. Two pro-presidential youth leaders who led the protests last month, Eugene Djue and Charles Ble Goude, got the same treatment.

Djue tells VOA the sanctions will have little effect.

He says he has no assets abroad and no desire to travel.

But he says his children live in France, so he hopes, "they will not be frozen." He says his real sanction is not to be able to travel to northern Ivory Coast, where he is from.

Troops and aid workers have left parts of west   
  
Meanwhile, the United Nations is moving 200 peacekeepers from neighboring Liberia to help with its security in the commercial capital, Abidjan.

That is much less than the several thousand extra troops U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has been requesting. The third on the sanctions list, Ble Goude, says he is not surprised by Mr. Annan's lack of influence.

"Nothing depends on him, nothing depends on him, because he has been elected from the will of the powerful countries of this world that we live in - U.S., France, U.K. [Britain], so nothing depends on him," Goude said. "He is powerless, so I think the way that he is dealing⁷ with the Ivorian crisis, I know that nothing comes from him."

Mr. Annan has angered Mr. Gbagbo's supporters, by recently condemning⁸ his unilateral decision to extend the mandate⁹ of parliament, a body that has blocked political reforms included in successive peace deals.

That parliament will try to begin a special session later this week. An international working group recommendation that it be disbanded spurred the protests.

Last month's violence also spread to western cities, forcing some U.N. peacekeepers to evacuate¹⁰ their bases. Western militia⁴ leaders say the peacekeepers are no longer welcome, even though, a dozen people were reported dead in ethnic¹¹ clashes this week and humanitarian¹² workers have fled.

Ivory Coast has been divided in two since late 2002, while western parts of the country have remained extremely volatile¹³. More than 10,000 French and U.N. troops monitor the cease-fire and police a buffer¹⁴ zone between government soldiers and rebels.

1 applied   

adj.应用的；v.应用，适用

参考例句：

• She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。
• This cream is best applied to the face at night.这种乳霜最好晚上擦脸用。

2 fully   

adv.完全地，全部地，彻底地；充分地

参考例句：

• The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
• They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。

3 interfering   

adj. 妨碍的 动词interfere的现在分词

参考例句：

• He's an interfering old busybody! 他老爱管闲事！
• I wish my mother would stop interfering and let me make my own decisions. 我希望我母亲不再干预，让我自己拿主意。

4 militia   

n.民兵，民兵组织

参考例句：

• First came the PLA men,then the people's militia.人民解放军走在前面，其次是民兵。
• There's a building guarded by the local militia at the corner of the street.街道拐角处有一幢由当地民兵团守卫的大楼。

5 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

6 killings   

谋杀( killing的名词复数 )； 突然发大财，暴发

参考例句：

• His statement was seen as an allusion to the recent drug-related killings. 他的声明被视为暗指最近与毒品有关的多起凶杀案。
• The government issued a statement condemning the killings. 政府发表声明谴责这些凶杀事件。

7 dealing   

n.经商方法，待人态度

参考例句：

• This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
• His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。

8 condemning   

v.（通常因道义上的原因而）谴责( condemn的现在分词 )；宣判；宣布…不能使用；迫使…陷于不幸的境地

参考例句：

• The government issued a statement condemning the killings. 政府发表声明谴责这些凶杀事件。
• I concur with the speaker in condemning what has been done. 我同意发言者对所做的事加以谴责。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

9 mandate   

n.托管地；命令，指示

参考例句：

• The President had a clear mandate to end the war.总统得到明确的授权结束那场战争。
• The General Election gave him no such mandate.大选并未授予他这种权力。

10 evacuate   

v.遣送；搬空；抽出；排泄；大(小)便

参考例句：

• We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵！
• They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。

11 ethnic   

adj.人种的，种族的，异教徒的

参考例句：

• This music would sound more ethnic if you played it in steel drums.如果你用钢鼓演奏，这首乐曲将更具民族特色。
• The plan is likely only to aggravate ethnic frictions.这一方案很有可能只会加剧种族冲突。

12 humanitarian   

n.人道主义者，博爱者，基督凡人论者

参考例句：

• She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业，并作了很大的贡献。
• The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。

13 volatile   

adj.反复无常的，挥发性的，稍纵即逝的，脾气火爆的；n.挥发性物质

参考例句：

• With the markets being so volatile,investments are at great risk.由于市场那么变化不定，投资冒着很大的风险。
• His character was weak and volatile.他这个人意志薄弱，喜怒无常。

14 buffer   

n.起缓冲作用的人(或物)，缓冲器；vt.缓冲

参考例句：

• A little money can be a useful buffer in time of need.在急需时，很少一点钱就能解燃眉之急。
• Romantic love will buffer you against life's hardships.浪漫的爱会减轻生活的艰辛。