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(单词翻译:双击或拖选)
Cairo
14 June 2007
Thousands of angry mourners have attended the funeral of Lebanese lawmaker Walid Eido, who was killed along with nine others in a car bombing Wednesday. VOA's Challiss McDonough has more from our Middle East bureau in Cairo.
Funeral procession of Walid Eido in Beirut, 14 Jun 2007 |
A large car bomb Wednesday killed Eido, his son Khaled and eight other people. It was the sixth and largest bombing in or near the Lebanese capital in the last month.
Walid Eido was the seventh prominent anti-Syrian figure to be assassinated3 in Lebanon since the beginning of 2005, when former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and 22 others were killed by another massive car bomb.
Eido was chairman of the parliamentary defense4 committee and a member of the anti-Syrian March 14th movement led by Hariri's son, Saad.
At the funeral, Saad Hariri called the killers5 "criminals."
He says the killers will be dragged to prison, dragged to justice, God willing. He says then Lebanon will have justice, and Walid Eido and his son will be the nation's martyrs6.
A new U.N. Security Council resolution went into effect three days ago establishing an international tribunal for suspects in the Hariri assassination7. Syria and its allies in Lebanon oppose the court, and the issue has been at the center of a political deadlock8 that has all but shut down Lebanese politics since November.
Hundreds of mostly pro-Syrian opposition9 activists10 have been camped outside the prime minister's office in an open-ended protest. The opposition has been calling for a new government for more than six months, ever since six pro-Syrian cabinet ministers resigned, including all of the Shi'ites.
Opposition leaders deny their protests are related to the tribunal, but most analysts11 say the international court is the key issue behind both the cabinet walkout and the street demonstrations12.
Scene of Beirut bomb attack that killed Walid Eido, 13 Jun 2007 |
The anti-Syrian March 14 group currently holds a narrow majority in Lebanon's parliament. Several key members, including Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, say the most recent assassinations16 are an effort to cut down their parliamentary majority.
Lebanon's pro-Syrian President, Emile Lahoud, has refused to call a by-election to replace the last slain17 lawmaker, Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel, who was shot to death in November.
Lebanon has also been rocked over the last month by ongoing18 clashes between the army and heavily armed Sunni Muslim militants19 holed up in a Palestinian refugee camp in the north. The group, Fatah al-Islam, is inspired by al-Qaida and has threatened to take the battle outside the camp.
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2 cemetery | |
n.坟墓,墓地,坟场 | |
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v.暗杀( assassinate的过去式和过去分词 );中伤;诋毁;破坏 | |
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4 defense | |
n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩 | |
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5 killers | |
凶手( killer的名词复数 ); 消灭…者; 致命物; 极难的事 | |
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6 martyrs | |
n.martyr的复数形式;烈士( martyr的名词复数 );殉道者;殉教者;乞怜者(向人诉苦以博取同情) | |
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7 assassination | |
n.暗杀;暗杀事件 | |
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8 deadlock | |
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9 opposition | |
n.反对,敌对 | |
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10 activists | |
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12 demonstrations | |
证明( demonstration的名词复数 ); 表明; 表达; 游行示威 | |
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14 ministry | |
n.(政府的)部;牧师 | |
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15 discrediting | |
使不相信( discredit的现在分词 ); 使怀疑; 败坏…的名声; 拒绝相信 | |
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16 assassinations | |
n.暗杀( assassination的名词复数 ) | |
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杀死,宰杀,杀戮( slay的过去分词 ); (slay的过去分词) | |
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19 militants | |
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