VOA标准英语--援助机构警告称伊拉克难民的心理健康危机

Aid Agencies Warn of Iraq Refugees' Mental Health Crisis 援助机构警告称伊拉克难民的心理健康危机

LONDON—

Aid agencies say there is a desperate need to train more mental health professionals in Iraq to treat the survivors¹ of Islamic State kidnappings and attacks.

In 2014, Islamic State militants² entered 17-year-old Nihad Barakat's Yazidi village in northern Iraq. They killed the men and kidnapped 28 members of her family.

Speaking at a news conference in London Wednesday, Nihad described what happened next.

"The worst torture happened to us in Mosul, she says. The girls were raped³, they were all taken from their families and raped constantly. And then they were handed out to the emirs [leaders] from Daesh. We were beaten and raped constantly for two weeks, and then I was chosen by one of the emirs and taken to another place," she said.

Her kidnapper⁴ was killed in fighting – and Nihad was sold to another Islamic State fighter as a sex slave. She became pregnant and gave birth to a baby boy.

"With the help of somebody I managed to make a phone call to my family. I managed to escape after that, but I had to leave my baby behind," she said.

Such trauma⁵ leaves huge mental scars - that are often left untreated. Nihad is receiving practical and psychological support from the AMAR Foundation aid group – which is raising money to train more mental health professionals in Iraq. Doctor Ali Muthanna is Iraq director for the charity.

“They have witnessed plenty of things that will never be erased⁶ from their memory. They have witnessed killing⁷, they have witnessed parts of bodies scattered⁸ here and there, the screaming of their mothers and sisters, etc. So we need a very comprehensive collaboration⁹ from different partners in order to establish a rehabilitation¹⁰ program," said Muthanna.

Hundreds of Yazidi women are still being held in slavery by Islamic State.

Protests were held Tuesday this week – International Women's Day – to highlight their plight¹¹.

Protest leader Samia Shingali says they want to send a message to the international community to do something to bring back our Yazidi mothers and sisters, to save them from the hands of Islamic State terrorists. She says it has been two years now since the kidnappings, and the issue is being ignored internationally.

Aid agencies say a whole generation of young Iraqis and Syrians are being left with deep psychological scars – and many of them will likely never receive treatment.

1 survivors   

幸存者，残存者，生还者( survivor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
• survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者

2 militants   

激进分子，好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
• Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。

3 raped   

v.以暴力夺取，强夺( rape的过去式和过去分词 )；强奸

参考例句：

• A young woman was brutally raped in her own home. 一名年轻女子在自己家中惨遭强暴。 来自辞典例句
• We got stick together, or we will be having our women raped. 我们得团结一致，不然我们的妻女就会遭到蹂躏。 来自辞典例句

4 kidnapper   

n.绑架者，拐骗者

参考例句：

• The kidnapper was shot dead then and there by the armed policeman.绑架者被武装警察当时当地击毙。
• The kidnapper strangled the child with a piece of string.绑票的人用一根绳子把这孩子勒死了。

5 trauma   

n.外伤，精神创伤

参考例句：

• Counselling is helping him work through this trauma.心理辅导正帮助他面对痛苦。
• The phobia may have its root in a childhood trauma.恐惧症可能源于童年时期的创伤。

6 erased   

v.擦掉( erase的过去式和过去分词 )；抹去；清除

参考例句：

• He erased the wrong answer and wrote in the right one. 他擦去了错误答案，写上了正确答案。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He removed the dogmatism from politics; he erased the party line. 他根除了政治中的教条主义，消除了政党界限。 来自《简明英汉词典》

7 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

8 scattered   

adj.分散的，稀疏的；散步的；疏疏落落的

参考例句：

• Gathering up his scattered papers,he pushed them into his case.他把散乱的文件收拾起来，塞进文件夹里。

9 collaboration   

n.合作，协作；勾结

参考例句：

• The two companies are working in close collaboration each other.这两家公司密切合作。
• He was shot for collaboration with the enemy.他因通敌而被枪毙了。

10 rehabilitation   

n.康复，悔过自新，修复，复兴，复职，复位

参考例句：

• He's booked himself into a rehabilitation clinic.他自己联系了一家康复诊所。
• No one can really make me rehabilitation of injuries.已经没有人可以真正令我的伤康复了。

11 plight   

n.困境，境况，誓约，艰难；vt.宣誓，保证，约定

参考例句：

• The leader was much concerned over the plight of the refugees.那位领袖对难民的困境很担忧。
• She was in a most helpless plight.她真不知如何是好。