British Vision Issue 80, 直面芬兰校园枪击事件

Shortly before lunch time,an eighty-year-old gunman entered Jokela High school in Finland and shot dead 7 pupils and a headteacher and injured 10 others.He then shot injured himself and is currently in a critical condition in hospital.Last night,details were posted on the youtube website,predicting the massacre¹ in detail,including a plan of attack listing the time,date and target.Youtube has now withdrawn² over 80 videos links to his account,some of
them featuring * .Channel 4 news access some of the pages before they all withdrawn,which some of you may find disturbing.J Miller³ has this report on the massacre at Jokela High School,40 miles north of Finland's capital Helsinki.

Children started running towards the police line sometime after midday,followed by dinner ladies,running for their lives.The headteacher had announced over the school's public addresses,* all students should remain in their classrooms.By now though,she was dead as were five boys and two girls in this little town near Helsinki.The quiet community * from unthinkable.This sort of thing doesn't happen here.

"The shooter came to the fire doors and started running towards me with the gun in his hand,shouting.After this I locked the door to my classroom when I escaped downstairs.I ran down the lower corridor when the shooter was running towards me..While running away,I saw the dead body of an adult on the left-hand side of the door.I saw my pupiles at the class windows.They asked me what to do.I asked them all to jump out the window."

This,the chilling video,posted on Youtube by the killer⁴ just hours earlier.It's entitled "Jokela High school massacre" and dated today.It pictures a man posing with the gun.Everyone else assumes he was the killer although it has yet to be confirmed by the police.Backing music,from a US hardcorn industial rock band KFMDM are known famous to one of the column by High School killers⁵.

"When police arrived in the schoolyard,we managed to contact the target individual and police * cammand to the target individual to which he responded by firing one shot at the police.No one was here when the shot was fired."

We now know the killer shot himself from head,but survived and was taken to hospital in an extremely critical condition.The web entry for Sturmgeist89 on Youtube is revealing.He downloaded 89 video clips since mid-October when Youtube closedown his last account under the allies natual select.Another of the videos,posted on Monday,shoes a man firing a pistal at an apple.It's entitled "just testing my gun".There follows a wider shot still in the forest which appears to show Sturmgeist89 .With the fire on,he just calls Catherine.

He acknowledges his fantacy audience.There are many other pictures among this web pages. He identifies himself as a Pekka-Eric Auvinen 18 years of age.He described himself as an unemployed⁶ synical extensionlist.A fellow pupil of Jokela High School described him today as a militant⁷ radical⁸ from mad strange place where extreme left meets extreme right.

On Youtube,he wrote screens of hatefeeled probes.There should be no mercy,he said,for the * of the earth.Humanity is overrated.
"I am prepared to fight and die for my cause"he wrote"I am a natural selector and will eliminate all who I see is unfit.Most of you are too arrogant⁹ and closed minded to understand."He went on"Rememberitical,this is my war.Don't blame anyone else for my actions.I told nobody about my plans.Don't blame the movies I see,th music I hear,the games I play,or the books I read.No,they had nothing to do with this."

Pekka-Eric Auvinen posted pictures of himself playing a video game which he called"me being British SAS special forces".On the site,he listed his interests and hobbies as extensionlism,missounds to be politically * and women
His music of choice,aggressive rock.Favorite writers MB or

What Packer Auvinen did today is clearly not something he wanted or intended to survive.He's had his moment of * now,like his violent as Virginia **.Tonight Youtube's spokesperson told Channel 4 news our hearts go out to the families of those who've lost loved ones in this tragedy.We have removed the video and disabled the uses of account.

1 massacre   

n.残杀，大屠杀；v.残杀，集体屠杀

参考例句：

• There was a terrible massacre of villagers here during the war.在战争中，这里的村民惨遭屠杀。
• If we forget the massacre,the massacre will happen again!忘记了大屠杀，大屠杀就有可能再次发生！

2 withdrawn   

vt.收回；使退出；vi.撤退，退出

参考例句：

• Our force has been withdrawn from the danger area.我们的军队已从危险地区撤出。
• All foreign troops should be withdrawn to their own countries.一切外国军队都应撤回本国去。

3 miller   

n.磨坊主

参考例句：

• Every miller draws water to his own mill.磨坊主都往自己磨里注水。
• The skilful miller killed millions of lions with his ski.技术娴熟的磨坊主用雪橇杀死了上百万头狮子。

4 killer   

n.杀人者，杀人犯，杀手，屠杀者

参考例句：

• Heart attacks have become Britain's No.1 killer disease.心脏病已成为英国的头号致命疾病。
• The bulk of the evidence points to him as her killer.大量证据证明是他杀死她的。

5 killers   

凶手( killer的名词复数 )； 消灭…者； 致命物； 极难的事

参考例句：

• He remained steadfast in his determination to bring the killers to justice. 他要将杀人凶手绳之以法的决心一直没有动摇。
• They were professional killers who did in John. 杀死约翰的这些人是职业杀手。

6 unemployed   

adj.失业的，没有工作的；未动用的，闲置的

参考例句：

• There are now over four million unemployed workers in this country.这个国家现有四百万失业人员。
• The unemployed hunger for jobs.失业者渴望得到工作。

7 militant   

adj.激进的，好斗的；n.激进分子，斗士

参考例句：

• Some militant leaders want to merge with white radicals.一些好斗的领导人要和白人中的激进派联合。
• He is a militant in the movement.他在那次运动中是个激进人物。

8 radical   

n.激进份子，原子团，根号；adj.根本的，激进的，彻底的

参考例句：

• The patient got a radical cure in the hospital.病人在医院得到了根治。
• She is radical in her demands.她的要求十分偏激。

9 arrogant   

adj.傲慢的，自大的

参考例句：

• You've got to get rid of your arrogant ways.你这骄傲劲儿得好好改改。
• People are waking up that he is arrogant.人们开始认识到他很傲慢。