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The head of UN peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo says a new strategy is needed to prevent massacres2 by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).
联合国驻刚果民主共和国维和部队首长称,必须采用新手段防止圣主抵抗军的屠杀。
Alan Doss spoke3 to the BBC after evidence emerged of a five day-rampage(暴跳,乱闹) by the rebel group last December in which more than 300 people died.
He said greater air mobility4 and better intelligence gathering5 was needed.
But Mr Doss said the LRA operated in small, highly mobile groups over a wide area, making the UN's job difficult.
The massacre was one of the worst ever committed by the group, Human Rights Watch said.
"We have to look at this as a problem dealing6 with small groups that move around a great deal," said Mr Doss.
"This requires better intelligence gathering, it requires particularly air mobility, and of course co-operation with the local people."
He added: "It didn't just happen in one place because... the LRA moves around a lot and these are small units, but of course they can inflict7(使承受,使遭受) terrible damage.
"But even small groups, moving as they do in the bush, can create havoc8(破坏,蹂躏) . Their best weapon is fear and they create fear by their extremely brutal9 and violent tactics(战术,策略) which we saw again in this latest massacre near Tapili."
LRA leaders initially10 claimed to be fighting to install a theocracy11(神权政体) in Uganda based on the Biblical Ten Commandments.
But they now roam(漫游,流浪) across Sudan and Central African Republic, as well as DR Congo.
In the latest attack, rebels hacked12 to death villagers and made others carry looted(抢劫,洗劫) goods. Some 250 people were abducted13(诱拐,绑架) .
The UN said it had heard rumours14 that an attack was to be launched around Christmas, and reinforced its troops in the area.
But they were deployed15 to towns like Dungu and Niangara rather than the remote villages where the killings16 took place.
On 13 December, a contingent17(分遣队) of LRA rebels crossed the Uele river and arrived at a market in the village of Mabanga Ya Talo.
They pretended to be Congolese soldiers and asked for food and other goods.
They then asked people to carry the goods back to where they had crossed the river, and when the villagers refused, the rebels turned on them.
Adults were attacked, captured, imprisoned19 in huts, then taken out and made to act as porters.
Anyone unable to keep up with the forced march was brutally killed.
The acts were repeated in villages all the way to Tapili, about 45km (30 miles) away.
Human Rights Watch, working with local organisations, has verified 321 deaths - but other activists20 have given far higher estimates.
Witnesses say the stench(恶臭,臭气) of death hung over the area for weeks.
Children were a particular target of the LRA.
At least 80 were taken by force - boys to become fighters, girls to be used as sex slaves by LRA fighters.
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massacre
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| n.残杀,大屠杀;v.残杀,集体屠杀 | |
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massacres
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| 大屠杀( massacre的名词复数 ); 惨败 | |
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spoke
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| n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说 | |
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mobility
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| n.可动性,变动性,情感不定 | |
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gathering
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dealing
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inflict
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| vt.(on)把…强加给,使遭受,使承担 | |
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havoc
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| n.大破坏,浩劫,大混乱,大杂乱 | |
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brutal
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| adj.残忍的,野蛮的,不讲理的 | |
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initially
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theocracy
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hacked
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abducted
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rumours
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deployed
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| (尤指军事行动)使展开( deploy的过去式和过去分词 ); 施展; 部署; 有效地利用 | |
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killings
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| 谋杀( killing的名词复数 ); 突然发大财,暴发 | |
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contingent
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| adj.视条件而定的;n.一组,代表团,分遣队 | |
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brutally
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imprisoned
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| 下狱,监禁( imprison的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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activists
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