U.N. Blocked From Pulling Workers Out of Congo With rebels closing in and artillery shells raining down, the United Nations said it decided on Tuesday to extract its aid workers who were holed up in the eastern Congolese village of Rutshuru. 伴随着叛军接近和炮壳飞舞，联合国决定撤出他们藏在Rutshuru，一个刚果东方的村落 ，里的援助工作员。 But the attempt to evacuate roughly 50 aid workers trapped in the battle zone deep in the forest was halted after furious villagers attacked the armed convoy and blocked the road, United Nations officials said. In the melee, even Congolese government forces fired on the convoy, the officials said. 愤怒的村民攻击武装维和部队，并阻断道路，但约五十名尝试脱困 的工作员被困於战区的森林里。联合国官员说， 混战中甚至能看到刚果政府军对武装护送部队开火。 “The situation was very chaotic,” said Ivo Brandau, a United Nations spokesman in Kinshasa, Congo’s capital. “The convoy had to turn back.” 「情况非常混乱，」联合国驻刚果首都金夏沙的发言人Ivo Brandau说 「部队只得回头。」 United Nations troops deployed helicopters and established infantry lines to try to prevent the rebels from overrunning Rutshuru and from reaching Goma, the provincial capital, said Alan Doss, the top United Nations official in the country. The rebels were breaking up into small groups to try to get around the United Nations forces, he said, but the peacekeepers were determined to try to repulse any attack on Goma, if it came. 联合国部队藉直昇机及步兵部队试图阻止暴民从Rutshuru往南向省会Goma移动， 联合国驻刚果最高长官Alan Doss朵斯表示，暴民以小团体行动，试图要包围联合国军队， 但维和部队会击退任何想攻击Goma的势力。 The situation has deteriorated over the past three days in eastern Congo. Mr. Doss said the peacekeeping troops were overstretched in trying to protect the civilian population, which is caught in the middle of vicious fighting between a rebel group and the Congolese Army. In many areas, aid operations have ground to a halt. Hundreds of thousands of people are trying to flee, but it seems to be getting harder and harder to reach them. 在三天前东刚果的情况恶化。朵斯承认维和部队从暴民集团与刚果陆军的攻击中， 保护平民便已捉襟见肘。许多地区的援助工作也已陷入困境。 成千上万的平民想脱逃，但救助他们却日益困难。 “We have about 15 trucks loaded with food, and they can’t move,” said Marcus Prior, a spokesman for the United Nations World Food Program in Nairobi. 「我们有15辆卡车可载送物资，但它们不能动。」联合国世界粮食署发言人Marcus Prior 在奈洛比接受采访 Mobs of civilians stoned the bases of United Nations forces in both Goma and Rutshuru. One civilian was killed Monday by a stray bullet when United Nations soldiers fired over the heads of the protesters trying to overrun the Goma base, Mr. Doss said from Kinshasa. 朵斯在金夏沙表示，联合国军队在Goma和Rutshuru主要是由非战斗人员组成。 联合国士兵攻击要占领Goma基地的暴民首领时，一位平民死於其流弹下。 Mr. Doss, the representative of Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in Congo, said he understood the civilian frustration, and he urged diplomatic efforts to get all groups together for talks. 朵斯是联合国秘书长潘基文在刚果的代表，他说他能感受平民挫折，并呼吁 所有能发挥外交影响力的势力能一起坐下来会谈。 “We cannot have a soldier behind every tree, in every field, on every road and in every market; it is impossible,” he said, adding that United Nations forces had been trying to explain to the civilians that by besieging the bases they were slowing efforts to attack the hostile forces. 「我们不能在每颗树後，每个区域和每个市场都设一个士兵，那不可能。」 是他对要联合国派兵增援的理由，并且尝试解释平民围绕在基地旁会延缓对敌方势力的 攻击反应。 In New York on Tuesday, the United Nations Security Council strongly condemned the offensive and called for a cease-fire. Mr. Doss appeared before the Security Council this month, pleading for an increase in the 17,000 troops he has spread out all over the country, with about 6,000 in the area around Goma. 星期二，纽约的联合国安理会强烈谴责攻击并呼吁停火。 朵斯本月稍早曾出席安理会，替他要增兵16000员的计画进行要求，其中包含6000名 将派往Goma。 The fighting near Goma had made it too dangerous to distribute food in the rural areas, said Mr. Prior, the food program spokesman. In Goma, operations had been suspended because of the level of hostility against the United Nations. 战争越接近Goma使得在乡间分配粮食越来越危险，粮食署发言人Prior说，因为交战 使得在Goma的行动必须中止。 Eastern Congo has been plagued by violence and insecurity for years and is home to the largest United Nations peacekeeping mission in the world. But the peacekeepers have seemed unable to stop one man, Laurent Nkunda, a renegade Congolese general, who is leading the rebel charge on Goma. 东刚果的暴力问题是联合国维和部队全球最大型的任务。但看来他们阻止不了叛乱的刚果 将军Laurent Nkunda，他率领大批判兵集结在Goma。 For the past several weeks, Mr. Nkunda’s troops have been gobbling up territory and forcing the Congolese government’s forces to retreat. They are now within 10 miles of Goma, and they are employing new hit-and-run tactics that seem to be frustrating the United Nations peacekeepers who are working with the Congolese military to beat back the rebels. 过去数周，Nkunda的兵力急速扩张势力范围并压制政府军。而且他们顾用暴民进行打带跑 术，使维和部队疲於奔命。 The fighting has driven villagers to look for a safe place to hide. Mr. Doss estimated that 100,000 had been displaced in the past few days, although estimates of new displacements were difficult amid people who had moved two and three times. 战争使民众想寻找安全的地方。朵斯估计有十万民众在这几天已经撤离， 但已经流离两三次的民众难以估计。 Juliette Prodhan, the country director for Oxfam’s aid programs in Congo, said the volume of people on the road had increased from a few hundred trudging toward Goma to more than 20,000. “There is widespread fear and panic,” she said. 牛津饥荒救助委员会在刚果的主管Juliette Prodhan说，往Goma路上的难民从几百人增加 至两万人以上，她说「那边充满了惊慌及恐惧。」 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/29/world/africa/29congo.html?em 纽时 烦请注意附上原稿来源 -- 身为台湾人，不可不知天下事 立足台湾，放眼世界 国际事务版 国家研究院 政治, 文学, 学术 PoliticMan 研究 Σ政党/政治人物研究院 IA 政治 ◎IA国际事务版 --

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