2006年VOA标准英语-French Judge to Sign Arrest Warrants for Death

By Lisa Bryant
Paris
22 November 2006

France's top anti-terrorist judge has requested arrest warrants against nine senior Rwandan officials linked to a 1994 attack that killed former Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana. The warrants, which are expected to signed as early as Wednesday, also implicate¹ Rwandan President Paul Kagame.

Ordered by French antiterrorist judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere, the nine warrants target highly placed officials in the Rwandan government.

 
Paul Kagame
News services who claim to have read a document by Bruguiere report the judge also argues Rwanda's President Paul Kagame had orchestrated the plane crash that killed former president Habyarima in an effort to seize power.

The president's death unleashed² three months of ethnic³ violence that killed as many as 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus.

Bruguiere began investigating the crash in 1998, at the request of the family of the French pilot of the plane who died in the attack.

The arrest warrants come at a delicate period in French-Rwandan relations. Kigali is currently looking into France's alleged⁴ role in the 1994 genocide, which followed the death of the former president. Paris staunchly denies having anything to to with the massacres⁵.

 
Charles Murigande 
In an interview with Radio France International, Foreign Affairs Minister Charles Murigande accused Bruguiere of ordering the arrest warrants in a bid to cover up alleged French military involvement in Mr. Habyarimana's death.

Mr. Muringande said the warrants reflected the panic within parts of the French military about Rwanda's inquiry⁶ of the genocide.

He suggested judge Bruguiere was inspired and motivated by some French military, among others.

Mr. Kagame enjoys immunity⁷ from prosecution⁸ in France as Rwanda's president.

But the International Herald⁹ Tribune reported Wednesday that Mr. Bruguiere may write United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan to request for the Rwandan president to be tried at the international Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, in Arusha, Tanzania.

1 implicate   

vt.使牵连其中，涉嫌

参考例句：

• He didn't find anything in the notebooks to implicate Stu.他在笔记本中没发现任何涉及斯图的东西。
• I do not want to implicate you in my problem of the job.我工作上的问题不想把你也牵扯进来。

2 unleashed   

v.把（感情、力量等）释放出来，发泄( unleash的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The government's proposals unleashed a storm of protest in the press. 政府的提案引发了新闻界的抗议浪潮。
• The full force of his rage was unleashed against me. 他把所有的怒气都发泄在我身上。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 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。

4 alleged   

a.被指控的，嫌疑的

参考例句：

• It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
• alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为

5 massacres   

大屠杀( massacre的名词复数 )； 惨败

参考例句：

• The time is past for guns and killings and massacres. 动不动就用枪、动不动就杀、大规模屠杀的时代已经过去了。 来自教父部分
• Numberless recent massacres were still vivid in their recollection. 近来那些不可胜数的屠杀，在他们的头脑中记忆犹新。

6 inquiry   

n.打听，询问，调查，查问

参考例句：

• Many parents have been pressing for an inquiry into the problem.许多家长迫切要求调查这个问题。
• The field of inquiry has narrowed down to five persons.调查的范围已经缩小到只剩5个人了。

7 immunity   

n.优惠；免除；豁免，豁免权

参考例句：

• The law gives public schools immunity from taxation.法律免除公立学校的纳税义务。
• He claims diplomatic immunity to avoid being arrested.他要求外交豁免以便避免被捕。

8 prosecution   

n.起诉，告发，检举，执行，经营

参考例句：

• The Smiths brought a prosecution against the organizers.史密斯家对组织者们提出起诉。
• He attempts to rebut the assertion made by the prosecution witness.他试图反驳原告方证人所作的断言。

9 herald   

vt.预示...的来临，预告，宣布，欢迎

参考例句：

• In England, the cuckoo is the herald of spring.在英国杜鹃鸟是报春的使者。
• Dawn is the herald of day.曙光是白昼的先驱。