四名肯尼亞人要起訴英國(guó)政府一托福閱讀機(jī)經(jīng)背景

1、智課網(wǎng)TOEFL備考資料四名肯尼亞人要起訴英國(guó)政府一托福閱讀機(jī)經(jīng)背景 Four Kenyans, three men and one woman, plan to take legal action against the British government over alleged colonial-era atrocities. Britains High Court ruled Thursday that the elderly Kenyans can sue over alleged torture by British authorities committed during th

2、e Mau Mau uprising in the 1950s. 包括三名男子和一名女子在內(nèi)的四名肯尼亞人，計(jì)劃就所稱的殖民時(shí)代的暴行對(duì)英國(guó)政府采取法律行動(dòng)。英國(guó)高等法院星期四裁定說(shuō)，這些年邁的肯尼亞人可以就所稱的英國(guó)當(dāng)局在1950年代茅茅起義期間對(duì)他們的虐待行為進(jìn)行起訴。 It was a victory on Thursday for four Kenyans who won the right to sue the British government, but the ruling is only the beginning. 對(duì)于這四名肯尼亞人來(lái)說(shuō)，他們星期四贏得了一場(chǎng)勝利，獲得了起

3、訴英國(guó)政府的權(quán)利。但是這項(xiàng)裁決僅僅是一個(gè)開(kāi)始。 A judge ruled that the Kenyans have an arguable case and that a full trial will be needed to find out the facts. 一名法官裁定說(shuō)，這些肯尼亞人提出一個(gè)“可以證實(shí)的案件”，需要進(jìn)行一場(chǎng)徹底的審理來(lái)查明真相。 But the judge emphasized that his ruling did not mean there had been systematic torture or that the British governmen

4、t is liable. 但是這名法官同時(shí)強(qiáng)調(diào)說(shuō)，他的裁決并不意味著當(dāng)年存在有計(jì)劃的虐待行為，也不意味著英國(guó)政府就負(fù)有責(zé)任。 Paolo Nzili, 83, is one of the claimants. Nzili says he was castrated, humiliated, beaten, and now has no family of his own. He says hes bitter, but happy that the High Court has accepted the case so that the four can sue for compensatio

5、n. 今年83歲的保羅恩茲利是提出指控的人士之一。他說(shuō)，他當(dāng)年被閹割，受到羞辱和毆打，導(dǎo)致現(xiàn)在沒(méi)有自己的家庭。這讓他的一生備受煎熬。為此，他需要金錢補(bǔ)償。 Money is what he needs, he says, to compensate for the fact that hes never had a family - something he says has tormented him all his life. The four elderly Kenyans say they were systematically tortured in camps set up in

6、the 1950s to crush the Mau Mau rebellion against British rule. The British Foreign Office says it is not responsible. It says responsibility for abuse was transferred to Kenya at independence in 1963. 英國(guó)外交部表示對(duì)此不負(fù)有責(zé)任。他們說(shuō)，施虐的責(zé)任在1963年肯尼亞獨(dú)立之后，就轉(zhuǎn)給了肯尼亞當(dāng)局。 We are absolutely delighted and we are happy that

7、the verdict came out the way it came, because for us thats a real opportunity, a real opportunity for these men and women who suffered despicable acts of torture, to be heard, and we are calling upon the British government to really move with speed now and stop invoking other technicalities like lim

8、itations, and really settle this case, said George Morara, the Program Officer at the Kenya Human Rights Commission. 肯尼亞人權(quán)委員會(huì)的項(xiàng)目官員喬治莫拉拉說(shuō)：“我們絕對(duì)感到欣喜，我們很高興能夠如愿獲悉這項(xiàng)判決，因?yàn)閷?duì)我們來(lái)說(shuō)，這是一次真正的機(jī)會(huì)。對(duì)于 那些遭受了卑劣折磨行徑的男女來(lái)說(shuō)，這是讓他們的心聲被世人所知的一次真正的機(jī)會(huì)。我們呼吁英國(guó)政府現(xiàn)在趕緊采取行動(dòng)，不要尋求一些諸如采取限制等技術(shù)性 阻撓手段，真心實(shí)意地處理案件?！?The four claimants are in their 70s and 80s. Another claimant died in 2009. 目前這四名尋求賠償者都已經(jīng)是70到80歲的高齡老人，另外一名尋求賠償者已經(jīng)