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Michael Kitchen
Afghanistan's transitional government is deploying2 troops in the country's northwest to stem an outbreak of factional fighting. The government intends to dislodge a local warlord from the important northern city of Maimana.
Deployment3 of units from the newly formed Afghan National Army comes in response to the seizure4 of Maimana by regional militia5 commander Abdul-Rashid Dostum.
General Dostum, the leader of the powerful Jumbesh-e Milli-e Islami movement, controls large tracts6 of territory across the ethnically7 Uzbek portions of northern Afghanistan.
Afghan sources say General Dostum moved his forces into Maimana after the local militia commander there broke from his alliance with Mr. Dostum's Jumbesh. But Afghan Interior Minister Ali Jalali says General Dostum's action violates the new constitution, as well as his militia's allegiance to the central government.
Jumbesh troops flooded into Maimana following angry demonstrations8 against the central government's appointed governor, who was later forced to flee his residence.
Mr. Jalali says the demonstrations were staged. "Those who staged demonstrations, they were deployed9 in advance in the area. These are the youth linked to Jumbesh," he said. "They were there from the beginning - it was part of the plan."
Mr. Dostum and his militia, based in the predominantly Uzbek city of Shirbigan, are technically10 under the command of Afghanistan's Defense11 Ministry12.
But like many other powerful militia commanders, General Dostum is seen by many local observers as an autonomous13 warlord. His troops have engaged in clashes with rival militias14 in recent months.
In an effort to reign15 in the militias, the Afghan government and United Nations began a nationwide disarmament program last year. The program seeks to disband all semi-independent military forces in the country and replace them with new national army units.
While the effort has met with some limited success, U.N. spokesman Manoel de Almeida e Silva says the current situation in Maimana shows the need to step up the process. "What this means really is that we need disarmament in this country. That is the bottom line," he said.
Factional fighting and an insurgency16 by fighters loyal to Afghanistan's former Taleban regime have slowed down preparations for elections to replace the current transitional government. The elections are scheduled for September.
Afghanistan [Af5^AnistAn] n. 阿富汗(西南亚国家)
factional [`fAkFEnEl] adj. 派系的
dislodge [dis5lCdV] v. 驱逐
warlord [5wC:lC:d] n. 军阀,军阀式首脑
Maimana. 麦玛纳(阿富汗的西北省分)
seizure [5si:VE] n. 抓,捉
militia [mi5liFE] n. 民兵
ethnically adv. 人种上,民族上
Interior Minister 内务大臣
allegiance [E5li:dVEns] n. 忠贞,效忠
flee [fli:] vt. 逃避,逃跑
predominantly [pri5dCmineitli] adv. 主要的
autonomous [C:5tCnEmEs] adj. 自治的
disarmament [dis5B:mEmEnt] n. 裁军裁军
disband [dis5bAnd] v. 解散,裁减
semi-independent 不完全独立的,半独立的
insurgency [In`s\:dVEnsI] n. 叛乱,叛乱状态
regime [reI5Vi:m] n. 政权
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v.(军)散开成战斗队形,布置,展开 | |
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(尤指军事行动)使展开( deploy的现在分词 ); 施展; 部署; 有效地利用 | |
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大片土地( tract的名词复数 ); 地带; (体内的)道; (尤指宣扬宗教、伦理或政治的)短文 | |
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证明( demonstration的名词复数 ); 表明; 表达; 游行示威 | |
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(尤指军事行动)使展开( deploy的过去式和过去分词 ); 施展; 部署; 有效地利用 | |
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