2006年VOA标准英语-Fears Rise Over Chad Violence

By Naomi Schwarz
Dakar
07 November 2006
 
Chad's government is reporting new clashes between non-Arab and Arab communities, amid fears such violence is spreading in the region.  

Chadian President Idriss Deby pays his respects in Ndjamena to the late deputy Army Chief of Staff killed during clashes between rebels and the Chadian Army in the East of the Country

The minister for national administration says more than 100 people were killed in a remote area in southeastern Chad last week.

Details of the attack are still being confirmed, says the minister's cabinet chief.

"We have been informed that there was an intercommunity conflict," says Bany Ganosso, head of the cabinet for the administration minister. The minister has gone to the site and we are awaiting his report, he says.

The country shares a long border with Sudan's Darfur region. For more than three years, the conflict there has spilled over the border into Chad.

Hundreds of thousands of Sudanese refugees have fled to Chad. Darfur-based "Janjaweed" militias¹ have followed, attacking Sudanese refugees and Chadians, alike. And Chadian rebels operate from bases in Darfur.

But this latest report puts violence deeper into Chadian territory. The villages involved, says Ganosso, are between 100 and 200 kilometers from the border.

Adrien Feniou is an analyst² at the London-based research group Global Insight.

"It is much easier to function in a war situation as a nomadic³ tribe than a farmer,” he noted⁴.  “You have the potential to move out. So it is possible that these people who are moving are causing instability for the farmers and putting pressure on the resources there."

But Feniou says that, although the violence is in a different location, it is still part of the same conflict.

"To me it just appears to be part of the wider conflict. It does not seem to be a specific to a brewing⁵ ethnic⁶ in eastern Chad," he added.

There have long been conflicts between herders and farmers along the Sahel region, where the desert meets grassland⁷. Although these conflicts are sometimes described as between "Arabs" and non-Arabs, Feniou says the ethnic distinctions are far more complex and localized.

1 militias   

n.民兵组织，民兵( militia的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The troops will not attempt to disarm the warring militias. 部队并不打算解除战斗中的民兵武装。 来自辞典例句
• The neighborhood was a battleground for Shiite and Sunni militias. 那里曾是什叶派和逊尼派武装分子的战场。 来自互联网

2 analyst   

n.分析家，化验员；心理分析学家

参考例句：

• What can you contribute to the position of a market analyst?你有什么技能可有助于市场分析员的职务？
• The analyst is required to interpolate values between standards.分析人员需要在这些标准中插入一些值。

3 nomadic   

adj.流浪的；游牧的

参考例句：

• This tribe still live a nomadic life.这个民族仍然过着游牧生活。
• The plowing culture and the nomadic culture are two traditional principal cultures in China.农耕文化与游牧文化是我国传统的两大主体文化。

4 noted   

adj.著名的，知名的

参考例句：

• The local hotel is noted for its good table.当地的那家酒店以餐食精美而著称。
• Jim is noted for arriving late for work.吉姆上班迟到出了名。

5 brewing   

n. 酿造, 一次酿造的量 动词brew的现在分词形式

参考例句：

• It was obvious that a big storm was brewing up. 很显然，一场暴风雨正在酝酿中。
• She set about brewing some herb tea. 她动手泡一些药茶。

6 ethnic   

adj.人种的，种族的，异教徒的

参考例句：

• This music would sound more ethnic if you played it in steel drums.如果你用钢鼓演奏，这首乐曲将更具民族特色。
• The plan is likely only to aggravate ethnic frictions.这一方案很有可能只会加剧种族冲突。

7 grassland   

n.牧场，草地，草原

参考例句：

• There is a reach of grassland in the distance.远处是连绵一片的草原。
• The snowstorm swept the vast expanse of grassland.暴风雪袭击了辽阔的草原。