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(单词翻译:双击或拖选)
The United Nations says the Lord's Resistance Army is continuing to attack civilians2 in the Democratic Republic of Congo, despite a recent international offensive against the Ugandan rebel group. The Office for the Coordination3 of Humanitarian4 Affairs says the LRA killed as many as 100 Congolese in January.
Congolese and Ugandan officials have been saying the Lords Resistance Army is struggling to survive, but the civilian1 death toll5 continues to rise in the worst hit areas.
Speaking by telephone from Busia in eastern DRC, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs regional head Jean Charles Dupin told VOA the rebels are still targeting civilians.
"When they attack people they go in their houses, they loot everything. They are terrorizing the population. They are very, very angry right now," he said.
Dupin says the violence has continued, despite renewed international efforts to crush the LRA. Recently the governments of Uganda, Congo and Southern Sudan launched a joint6 offensive against the rebels, but analysts7 say the attack failed to capture or kill the group's commander Joseph Kony.
Under Kony's leadership, the LRA has been accused of countless8 incidents of civilian abuse, including widespread abduction, rape9, mutilation and murder.
Experts say that since its inception10 in the late 1980s the LRA has abducted11 vast numbers of civilians, particularly children, for training as fighters. The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants against Kony and other high-ranking members.
The LRA is not the only outfit12 inflicting13 terror on the Congolese population. The United Nations says separate militia14 groups, as well as government soldiers, have been accused of preying15 on civilians too.
A recent report by the Enough Project says the Congolese Army has committed numerous cases of rape and sexual violence. Government soldiers have been accused of stealing from civilians by force and disrupting the flow of aid to internally displaced people.
Analysts say the recent upshot in violence, and the alleged16 brutality17 of the LRA assaults, might be Joseph Kony's way of sending a message to those international leaders who said his group was all but finished.
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adj.平民的,民用的,民众的 | |
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平民,百姓( civilian的名词复数 ); 老百姓 | |
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n.协调,协作 | |
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n.人道主义者,博爱者,基督凡人论者 | |
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n.过路(桥)费;损失,伤亡人数;v.敲(钟) | |
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adj.联合的,共同的;n.关节,接合处;v.连接,贴合 | |
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n.抢夺,掠夺,强奸;vt.掠夺,抢夺,强奸 | |
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10 inception | |
n.开端,开始,取得学位 | |
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劫持,诱拐( abduct的过去式和过去分词 ); 使(肢体等)外展 | |
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n.(为特殊用途的)全套装备,全套服装 | |
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把…强加给,使承受,遭受( inflict的现在分词 ) | |
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n.民兵,民兵组织 | |
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17 brutality | |
n.野蛮的行为,残忍,野蛮 | |
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