VOA常速英语2007年-Indian Army Vacates Kashmir Schools, Hospitals

By Shahnawaz Khan
Srinagar
26 November 2007

The Indian Army has left schools and hospitals it had been occupying in Kashmir. Although the move is largely symbolic¹ and no troop reductions in Kashmir are planned at the moment, the transfer has diminished a source of considerable resentment² among the local population.  Shahnawaz Khan reports from Srinigar.
 
The move is part of a general look into the deployment³ of the estimated 750,000 army and paramilitary troops in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir. 

Earlier this year, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh formed a panel to study the relocation and possible reduction of forces in the disputed territory.

While many Kashmir residents have called for troop reductions, the quartering of soldiers in schools and hospitals was a separate source of unhappiness.  Politicians said the presence of the troops interfered⁴ with education and health services.

The buildings were due to be left by the end of this month, but an Indian Army spokesman says the redeployment has already been completed. The troops have been moved to army camps around the region.

Ghulam Hassan Mir is a senior official of the Peoples Democratic Party, an ally of the ruling provincial⁵ government.  He calls the move a welcome development. 
 
Mir says the occupation of the school and hospital buildings was affecting basic services, and that is why people were demanding the relocation.

Mir says the party also wants troops to leave private property, such as houses, and orchards⁶ where barracks have been built.

Khurram Pervez of the Jammu and Kashmir Coalition⁷ of Civil Society in Srinagar says the transfer is an admission the buildings had been occupied at the expense of health and education.
 
Pervez says health and education policies in Kashmir were held hostage to the presence of the soldiers.

Indian troops in Kashmir include paramilitary forces such as the Central Reserve Police Force and Border Security Force.

Some units are also housed in schools, and one company is living at the University of Kashmir.  So far, they have not been transferred.
 
The panel studying troop deployment has submitted its report to the prime minister, and New Delhi says it is studying it. However, the army has said there will be no reduction in troops in Kashmir for the time being.

Kashmir, on the northern tip of the border between India and Pakistan, is claimed by both nations and divided between them.  The countries have fought two of their three wars over Kashmir, and the region is an on-going source of tension between them.

1 symbolic   

adj.象征性的，符号的，象征主义的

参考例句：

• It is symbolic of the fighting spirit of modern womanhood.它象征着现代妇女的战斗精神。
• The Christian ceremony of baptism is a symbolic act.基督教的洗礼仪式是一种象征性的做法。

2 resentment   

n.怨愤，忿恨

参考例句：

• All her feelings of resentment just came pouring out.她一股脑儿倾吐出所有的怨恨。
• She cherished a deep resentment under the rose towards her employer.她暗中对她的雇主怀恨在心。

3 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。

4 interfered   

v.干预( interfere的过去式和过去分词 )；调停；妨碍；干涉

参考例句：

• Complete absorption in sports interfered with his studies. 专注于运动妨碍了他的学业。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• I am not going to be interfered with. 我不想别人干扰我的事情。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 provincial   

adj.省的，地方的；n．外省人，乡下人

参考例句：

• City dwellers think country folk have provincial attitudes.城里人以为乡下人思想迂腐。
• Two leading cadres came down from the provincial capital yesterday.昨天从省里下来了两位领导干部。

6 orchards   

（通常指围起来的）果园( orchard的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• They turned the hills into orchards and plains into granaries. 他们把山坡变成了果园，把平地变成了粮仓。
• Some of the new planted apple orchards have also begun to bear. 有些新开的苹果园也开始结苹果了。

7 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。