报告称英美法三国对Isis控制的拉卡市造成了数十年以来最严重的破坏 [英国媒体]

US, Britain and France inflicted worst destruction 'indecades' killing civilians in Isis-held city of Raqqa, report says

报告称英美法三国对Isis控制的拉卡市造成了数十年以来最严重的破坏

'More artillery shells werelaunched into Raqqa than anywhere since the end of the Vietnam war' saysAmnesty International

大赦国际声称：“拉卡市所蒙受的炮弹攻击是越南战争结束后任何地方都无法相比的。”



Air and artillery strikes by the US and its allies inflicted devastating lossof life on civilians in the Isis-held city of Raqqa, according to an AmnestyInternational report. It contradicts claims by the US, along with Britain andFrance, that they precisely targeted Isis fighters and positions during thefour month siege that destroyed large swathes of the city.

根据大赦国际报告，美国及其盟国发动的空袭和火炮攻击对Isis控制的拉卡市平民生命造成了毁灭性损失。这份报告与美英法的说法相矛盾，后者声称自己在摧毁大片城市的四个月围困中，始终精确打击Isis战士和阵地。

“On the ground in Raqqa we witnessed a level of destruction comparable toanything we have seen in decades of covering the impact of wars,” saysDonatella Rovera, a senior crisis response adviser at Amnesty. She says thatthe coalition’s claim that it had conducted a precision bombing campaign thatcaused few civilian casualties does not stand up to scrutiny. She quotes asenior US military officer as saying that “more artillery shells were launchedinto Raqqa than anywhere since the end of the Vietnam war”.

大赦国际高级危机应对顾问Donatella Rovera说：“仅从拉卡市的地面，我们目睹的破坏程度足以超过数十年来的战争。”她说联军声称进行的精确轰炸只有数名平民伤亡的说法完全站不住脚。她援引一位美国高级军官的话说“拉卡市所蒙受的炮击是越南战争结束后任何地方都无法相比的”。

The air and artillery strikes by the US and its allies killed many civilians –the number is unknown because so many bodies are buried under the ruins –during the four-month-long siege, beginning on 6 June and ending on 17 Octoberlast year according to the report. Citing the testimony of survivors, itcontradicts assertions by the US-led coalition that it took care to avoidtargeting buildings where civilians might be present. Witnesses say that againand again their houses were destroyed although there were no Isis fighters inthem or nearby.

在始于2017年6月6日，终于10月17日的四个月围困中，美国及其盟友的空袭和炮击杀死了大量平民——伤亡数字目前未知，因为还有很多尸体仍旧葬身于废墟之下。报告援引了幸存者的证词，与美国领导的联盟的声明相互矛盾，后者声称己方小心避免攻击可能存在平民的建筑物。目击者称，尽管他们家里或附近建筑并无Isis战士，但他们的房屋还是一再被摧毁。

“Those who stayed died and those who tried to run away died. We couldn’t affordto pay the smugglers: we were trapped,” says Munira Hashish. Her family lost 18members, of whom nine were killed in a coalition airstrike, seven as they triedto escape down a road mined by Isis, and two were hit by a mortar round,probably fired by an Syrian Democratic Forces unit. She says that she and herchildren only escaped “by walking over the blood of those who were blown up asthey tried to flee ahead of us”.

“留下来的人和试图逃跑的人都死了。我们付不起给走私者的钱，我们被困住了。”Munira Hashish说。她的家庭失去了18名成员，其中9名死于联军空袭，7名在试图沿Isis埋设了地雷的公路时丧生，还有2名被迫击炮弹击中，有可能是叙利亚民主力量开火导致的。她说她和她的孩子只能“趟过前面试图逃跑者被炸成碎片留下的血泊”而逃生。

Many families were hit more than once by airstrikes and artillery as they fledfrom place to place in Raqqa, vainly trying to avoid being close to the frontlines but these were often changing. The Badran family lost 39 members, mostlywomen and children, as well as 10 neighbours, killed in four differentcoalition airstrikes. “We thought the forces who came to evict Daesh (Isis)would know their business and would target Daesh and the leave the civiliansalone,” said Rasha Badran, one of the survivors. “We were naive.”

许多家庭在拉卡市中四处躲避，徒劳地试图避免靠近频繁变动的前线时，不止遭受过一次空袭或炮击。Badran家失去了39名成员，其中大部分是妇女和儿童，还有10名邻居，都是在4次不同的联军空袭中丧生的。“我们以为来驱逐Isis的军队会明白自己的任务，只会瞄准Isis，而让平民离开。”幸存者之一的Rasha Badran说：“我们太天真了。”

Many cities have been destroyed in the wars in Iraq and Syria since 2011, butthe destruction is worse in Raqqa than anywhere else. Streets are simplylane-ways cut through heaps of rubble and broken masonry. The few people on thestreets are dazed and broken, and this has not changed much in the months sincethe city was captured from Isis by local ground forces backed up by thedevastating firepower of the US-led coalition.  

自2011年叙利亚战争爆发以来，很多伊拉克和叙利亚城市都化为废墟，但拉卡市遭受的破坏远超其他地区。街道变成了小巷，在成堆的碎石和砖瓦中前行。街上仅有的几个人茫然失措、衣衫褴褛，而这种情况自拉卡市被美国领导的联军支持下的当地武装夺取以来并未发生太大变化。

The claim by the coalition that its airstrikes and artillery fire wereprecisely targeted against Isis fighters and their positions is shown up as amyth as soon as one drives into the city. I visited it earlier in the year andhave never seen such destruction. There are districts of Mosul, Damascus andAleppo that are as bad, but here the whole city has gone.

联军声称其空袭和炮击都精确瞄准了Isis战士及阵地，只要进入这座城市，就会发现这显然是神话。我曾在今年早些时候访问过拉卡市，从未目睹过这样的破坏。摩苏尔、大马士革和阿勒颇的很多街区都很糟糕，但拉卡市则是整座城市被摧毁了。

I went to look at the al-Naeem Roundabout where the spikes on top of metalrailings are bent outwards because Isis used them to display the severed headsof people whom it deemed to be its opponents. On every side, as far as the eyecan see, there are ruined buildings, some reduced to a mound of rubble whileothers have been turned into concrete skeletons that look as if they might collapseat any moment.

我去看了看al-Naeem环岛，金属围栏的尖顶都朝外弯曲，因为Isis利用这些围栏展示反对者被砍下来的头颅。无论从何处，极目望去，只有被毁坏的建筑，有的变成了一堆碎石烂瓦，而其他的只剩下钢筋混凝土骨架，仿佛随时会倒塌。

Given the level of violence in Iraq and Syria, it is difficult to prove thatone place is worse than another, but this has now been established with awealth of evidence in this Amnesty report entitled War of Annihilation:Devastating Toll on Civilians, Raqqa – Syria.

鉴于伊拉克和叙利亚的暴力程度，很难证明一个地方比另一个地方更加糟糕，但眼下已经有大量证据为证的大赦国际报告证明了这一点：毁灭性战争，对叙利亚拉卡市平民的毁灭性打击。

The report, based on 112 interviews and visits to 42 strike locations, wassharply criticised by a coalition spokesman even before it was published. USArmy Colonel Sean Ryan was quoted by news agencies as inviting Kate Allen, thedirector of Amnesty International UK, to “personally witness the rigorousefforts and intelligence gathering the coalition uses before any strike toeffectively destroy IS while minimising harm to civilian populations”. Althoughthe report cites the detailed evidence of many surviving witnesses whose familymembers were killed in airstrikes, Col Ryan says that allegations ofindiscriminate and disproportionate bombardment were “more or lesshypothetical”.

该报告基于112次访谈和对42个遭受攻击地点的访问，甚至在报告出版前，就遭到了一名联军发言人的严厉批评。美军上校SeanRyan邀请特设国际英国主任Kate Allen的话被新闻机构引用，说“个人亲眼目睹联军在有效打击IS前竭尽全力并搜集情报，以尽量减少对平民的伤害”。尽管报告援引了大量幸存目击证人的详细证据，这些人都有家人在空隙中丧生，但Col Ryan说，滥杀无辜和过度轰炸“或多或少是假想的”。

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Children riding a bicycle next to destroyed buildings inRaqqa (PA)

The reality in Raqqa, despite claims of the precise accuracy of modern weaponsand great concern for civilian life, is that the ruins look exactly likepictures of the aftermath of the carpet bombing of cities like Hamburg andDresden in the Second World War.

尽管联军声称了现代武器的精确性和对平民生命的高度关注，拉卡市的实际情况却非常近似于二战时汉堡和德累斯顿遭受地毯轰炸后的照片。

US forces fired 100 per cent of the artillery rounds used against Raqqa andover 90 per cent of the airstrikes, but British and French aircraft were alsoinvolved. The Ministry of Defence says the UK carried out 275 airstrikes andkilled no civilians at all. Despite pledges that civilian loss of life would bethoroughly investigated, Amnesty says there is no sign of this happening.

美国军队向拉卡市发动了100%的炮击和90%的空袭，但英法空军也参与了空袭。国防部表示，英国执行了275次空袭，毫无平民伤亡。尽管联军承诺要对平民死伤进行彻底调查，但大赦国际表示没有丝毫调查迹象。

A consequence of the assertion by the coalition that they seldom harmedcivilians, there has been little humanitarian support for people returning toRaqqa. Aid agencies say that one problem is finding a safe place where there nounexploded munitions or mines where they can distribute provisions. The reportsays that many residents ask: “Why those, who spent so much on a costlymilitary campaign which destroyed the city, are not providing the relief sodesperately needed.”

联军断言很少伤及平民的一个结果就是，对返回拉卡市的人，几乎没有人道主义救援。援助机构表示，一个难题是找到一片没有未爆弹药或地雷的安全地区以便分发粮食。报告说，很多居民质疑：“为什么联军耗费巨额经费发动战役摧毁了城市，却不提供如此迫切需要的救济。”

An MoD spokesman said: “Keeping Britain safe from the threat of terrorism isthe objective of this campaign and throughout we have been open andtransparent, detailing each of our nearly 1,700 strikes, facilitatingoperational briefings and confirming when a civilian casualty had taken place.

国防部发言人说：“保证英国不受恐怖主义威胁是本次战役的目的，我们一直公开透明，详细说明了接近1700次空袭的情况，推动作战简报，并且确认了何时有平民伤亡发生。”

“We do everything we can to minimise the risk to civilian life through ourrigorous targeting processes and the professionalism of the RAF crews but,given the ruthless and inhuman behaviour of Daesh, and the congested, complexurban environment in which we operate, we must accept that the risk ofinadvertent civilian casualties is ever present.”

“通过我们严格的定位过程和专业的英国皇家空军人员，我们尽其所能将对平民生命的风险降至最低，并给予Isis无情和残酷的打击，而我们面临的拥挤、复杂的城市环境，我们必须接受平民伤亡永远不可避免的风险。”


Walkandchewgum11hours ago
Thisis awful. Its like Aleppo. It should be on the BBC. I wonder why it's not..

真可怕，就像阿勒颇一样。应该在BBC报道的，可我不知道为啥没有。。。

Delicieuxz6hours ago
It's actually worse than Aleppo.Also, the US coalition's campaign for Mosul, Iraq was more than twice as bad asAleppo. You didn't hear about it on BBC or other Western news because Westernnews is propaganda. While the average weekly civilian death toll in Mosul Iraqwas more than double what it was in Aleppo, Western media orchestrated ablackout on reporting about Mosul, and instead hyped Aleppo as if it was thishuge travesty. Now, Aleppo was a tragedy. But however much of one it was, itwas less than half the tragedy that the US-coalition's campaign for Mosul wasat the very same time. And the US-coalition's campaign for Mosul went on many,many times longer than the campaign for Aleppo lasted. And it was far worsethan Aleppo throughout the campaign. That's every-day Western MSM propagandafor you.

实际上，比阿勒颇还要糟糕。此外，美国联军对伊拉克摩苏尔的战役比阿勒颇糟糕两倍。你没在BBC或者其他西方新闻机构中听到这些事的原因是西方的新闻都是宣传。在伊拉克摩苏尔的每周平民死亡人数是阿勒颇的两倍多，西方媒体对摩苏尔的报道精心策划了一场新闻管制，反而将阿勒颇炒作起来，似乎后者是场大灾难似的。现在，阿勒颇是个悲剧了。但无论是阿勒颇还是拉卡市，都赶不上美国联军同时对伊拉克摩苏尔发动战役造成的悲剧。美国联军对摩苏尔的战役比起阿勒颇战役持续的时间长了很多很多倍。就整场战役而言，摩苏尔比阿勒颇糟糕得多得多。而每天，西方的MSM还在对你大力宣传。

Joel11hours ago
Lol ..why has Hilary Benn gone so quiet these days after his famous parliament speechwanting to bomb Syria back to the stone ages ... politicians like these whoretain their jobs through nepotism, are clearly not fit for purpose.

爆笑。。。为什么希拉里本尼迪克特在他要把叙利亚炸回石器时代的着名演讲后的这些天里，却变得如此诡异的沉默？像这些通过裙带关系保住自己工作的政客，显然不适合这事儿。

jbool18hours ago
We didthe same to Mosul. What bloody stinking hypocrites we are.

我们对摩苏尔也做了同样的事，我们真他妈是一群狗屎伪君子。

WotmeAgain20hours ago
Iwonder how Bethan and Lizzie in Beirut will be able to spin the blame back ontoAssad after this. The MSM has tricked everyone over the atrocities carried outby the US/Israel and the UK government for years. It seems one benefit of thisnew moderation system is to silence the neocon trolls and their deletion ofcomments, however clunky it may be for other commenters. Opinions are changingand the MSM is being left with less credibility thanks to the likes of VanessaBeeley, Eva Bartlett, Cockburn and the wide range of alternative sites nowaccessed by millions in preference to the well rehearsed 'official narrative'.

我不知道呆在贝鲁特的Bethan和Lizzie在这之后怎么把（这场灾难的）责任归咎于阿萨德。MSM欺骗所有人无视美国、以色列和英国政府多年以来犯下的暴行。这种新的较为温和的制度似乎有一种好处，就是能让新保守主义的怪物们沉默不语，并且删掉他们的评论，尽管这对其他评论者来说是笨拙可笑的。
（译者注：后面那段实在不好翻译。）

mjb19hours ago
Now the British Press areattempting damage limitation. Too late.

现在，英国新闻界正企图破坏限制。太迟了。

Utopia21hours ago
3powerful countries with a heavy colonial past all eager to dominate. This warwas sadly inevitable unlike the Irak war but all wars cause life’s but also savemany.

3个有着浓厚殖民地历史的强国都渴望支配他国。与伊拉克战争不同，这场战争令人遗憾的不可避免，但所有的战争都会带走生命，但也会挽救生命。

Delicieuxz6hours ago
I don't think it was inevitable.If the US hadn't funded and supplied terrorists and funneled them into Syria(look up Operation Timber Sycamore) in an effort to overthrow Assad, then thiswas would not have happened. It hasn't been a civil war, but a proxy war - onethat the US deliberately created.

我不认为这是不可避免的。如果美国没有资助和供应恐怖分子并将他们转移至叙利亚（搜搜OperationTimber Sycamore），以推翻阿萨德的话，那么这一切根本不会发生。这根本不是一场内战，而是代理人战争——是美国精心发动的代理人战争。

Furiten21hours ago
War isimpossible without collateral damage, only Russians commit war crimes

没有附带损害的战争是不可能的，只有毛子犯下了战争罪。

RiteLeft21hours ago
Oh, sure, only the Russian. Areyou really that brain washed?

哦，真的啊，只有毛子。你脑子真的被洗了吗？

Delicieuxz6hours ago
Actually, the US and UK and Francehave committed many war crimes in Iraq and Syria. And the US and UK havecommitted many more than Russia has. Heck, the whole Middle East disaster isonly happening because the UK and the US illegally invaded Iraq, which was awar crime, and because the US sponsored terrorism in Syria to try to overthrowAssad.

实际上，美国英国和法国在伊拉克和叙利亚犯下了很多战争罪行。美国和英国犯下的罪行比毛子还要多。真特码见鬼，整个中东的灾难就是因为英国和美国非法入侵伊拉克，这就是战争罪行，而且还因为美国在叙利亚赞助恐怖主义试图推翻阿萨德。

CrypticApocalyptic22 hours ago
Butnothing will change, no one in the West will be hung for war crimes, next weekwe,ll be back to the usual narrative, Russia bad, the west good, meanwhileIsrahell continues killing innocent people with impunity and US States make itillegal to trade with a company that boycotts Israel.

可什么都不会改变，西方国家没有人会因为战争罪而被吊死，下周嘛，我们又会回到司空见惯的叙事中，毛子坏，西方好，同时以色列继续杀害无辜平民却不受惩罚，美国各州判定抵制与以色列的贸易是非法的。

Sage322hours ago
Fordecades the US and it's allies have got away with murder. Slaughter of unarmedcivilians by drones and bombs, are now the norm, and no one is held accountablefor the loss of lives. Millions of Muslims have been massacred for no reason,at the slightest excuse, and with false intelligence. There has been noremorse, apologies, or investigations in the US, to find out why this happened,and no neocon or war monger held responsible. Brown skinned Muslim lives are ofno importance. Take a look at Israel, and their recent massacre in Gaza ofunarmed civilians - the US, it's protector, vetoed resolutions condemning thatwar crime too.

数十年来，美国和它的盟友早已为所欲为。用无人机和炸弹屠杀手无寸铁的平民现在已经成了常态，没人会为丧命的人负责。数以百万计的穆斯林无缘无故的被屠杀，几乎没有任何借口，而且还有错误的情报。在美国，没有悔恨、道歉或调查，也不去找出发生（此类事件）的原因，也没有新保守主义者或战争贩子对此负责。Brown剥夺穆斯林的生命没啥大不了的。看看以色列，还有他们最近在加沙对手无寸铁的平民进行的大屠杀——以色列的保护者美国，否决了对战争罪行的谴责。

Diderot4423hours ago
But Ithought we were the "good guys"?

可我觉得我们是“好人”对吧？

Utopia21hours ago
Since when brits, the French andAmericans are the good guys ? Bigheaded you meant.

你以为英国佬、法国佬和美国佬都是好人？你还真是自以为是。

sonbeams23hours ago
Theproblem is that ISIS is a creation of the U.S., the U.K. and Israeliintelligence services. They are a useful asset of geopolitical policy. This iswhy "terrorist" attacks happen in the U.K. These assets return toBritain and are enabled by MI5/6 to reenter, live off the State and carry outtheir missions. This keeps the citizenry in a state of fear and easilycontrolled.

问题在于ISIS是美国、英国和以色列情报部门创造的怪物。他们是地缘政治政策的有用资产。这就是为什么“恐怖”袭击发生在英国的缘故。这些有用资产返回英国，由MI5/6（英国情报机关）重新起用，在国内生活并继续他们的任务。这就让平民们处于恐惧和易于控制的状态下。