经济学人:内战之殇 斯里兰卡的人口失踪(1)

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　　Sri Lanka's Disappeared: No closure 斯里兰卡的失踪人员：尚未终结

　　The wounds of Civil War remain raw. 内战之殇仍在作痛。

　　“I Still believe he's alive,” says Tharsini Santhirabose with a glazed¹, fixed² smile. Tharsini Santhirabose目光呆滞、僵硬地笑着说，“我一直相信他还活着”。

　　She last saw her husband, a fellow guerrilla for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, in the final days of the civil war that ended with the Tigers' obliteration³ in 2009. 她的丈夫是泰米尔伊拉姆猛虎解放组织的一名游击队员，她最后一次见到他的丈夫是在在内战结束前夕，但战争最后是以2009年猛虎组织的彻底失败而告终。

　　Up to 40,000 civilians⁴ were killed, according to the UN, along with most of the remnants of the 10,000-strong separatist army and perhaps 5,000 hangers-on. 根据联合国的统计，多达四万平民死于这场战争中，猛虎组织中拥有一万兵力的分裂之一军队可能只剩下5000名残兵了。

　　The chances that Ms Santhirabose's husband will reappear are virtually nil⁵. 所以Santhirabose女士的丈夫生还的可能性是微乎其微。

　　No one knows precisely⁶ how many died or disappeared in the war. 没有人准确地知道有多少人在战争中死亡或失踪。

　　A fervently⁷ Tamil-nationalist Catholic bishop⁸ claims that, after the 26 years of fighting, 147,000 people, civilians and fighters, remain unaccounted for. 一位狂热极端的泰米尔民族主义叛军声称，在他们与政府军长达26年的战争后，有十四万七千人死亡或失踪，这其中包括平民和士兵。

　　The foreign ministry⁹ says that more than 65,000 queries¹⁰ about missing people have been received since 1994. 外交部表示自1994年起，他们已经收到了超过六万五千条询问失踪人口的信件。

　　A few thousand former Tiger “cadres”, as they are known, have re-emerged from government “rehabilitation” camps. 据称，几千名前猛虎组织的“核心骨干”重新出现在政府改造营中。

　　Many Tamils believe that secret detention¹¹ camps still exist. 许多泰米尔人认为这里存在着一个秘密关押营。

　　Others claim, bizarrely, that the government has sent thousands of defeated fighters to undisclosed destinations abroad. 其他人绝望的声称，政府把这些数以千计的战败的猛虎组织成员送往到不明的国外某处。

　　Many also say that the Sri Lankan army's reluctance¹² to give back land now used as army bases is because they do not want mass graves to be discovered. 也有人说斯里兰卡的军队不想归还用于军事基地的土地，是因为他们不像让人发现军事基地里的集中埋葬的坟地。

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