9-21-2005

印尼卫生部长警告禽流感流行 (Indonesian Health Minister Warns of Bird Flu Epidemic)

印度尼西亚卫生部长西蒂.法蒂拉.苏帕莉警告说，禽流感有可能在印尼成为大规模流行病。与此同时，印尼又有一个显示有禽流感症状的病人死亡。一名五岁的小女孩星期三在雅加达一家医院去世。卫生官员正在等待化验结果。如果被证实禽流感是死因，这将是印尼的第五起禽流感死亡病例。

另一方面，印尼农业部部长安东.阿卜里延托诺说，政府计划在禽流感病毒感染严重的地区屠宰大批禽类。印尼政府曾经说，它负担不起大规模宰宰禽类。印尼这个星期早些时候提出采取“非常措施”抑制禽流感蔓延。2003年以来，禽流感已经在四个东南亚国家造成60多人死亡。

Indonesia's health minister Siti Fadillah Supari is warning that a bird flu outbreak in the country could turn into an epidemic, as another possible victim died after showing symptoms of the disease. Health officials awaited test results from a five-year-old girl who died in a Jakarta hospital Wednesday. If avian flu were confirmed as the cause, it would be the fifth death in Indonesia from the virus

Meanwhile, Indonesia's Agriculture Minister, Anton Apriyantono, said the government plans to conduct a mass slaughter of poultry in highly infected regions. In the past, Indonesia's government has said it could not afford to carry out mass culls. Indonesia earlier this week called for "extraordinary measures" to contain bird flu, which has killed more than 60 people in four Southeast Asian countries since 2003.

愤怒泰国村民杀死两海军陆战队员 (Angry Thai Villagers Kill Two Marines)

泰国南部的军事官员说， 愤怒的村民杀死了两名被他们扣为人质的泰国海军陆战队军人。村民指控他们两人开枪射杀了他们的同村人。这座穆斯林村庄里的村民指控这两个人星期二夜晚参与了一起枪击命案。

泰国军方否认这两名陆战队员参与了那次事件。泰国总理他信.钦那瓦把枪击事件归咎于穆斯林反叛分子，并坚决表示要追查真凶。

泰国南部不断发生跟分离主义反叛活动有关的暴力事件。自从2004年1月以来已经有一千多人丧生。暴力发生的部份原因有关马来族穆斯林与佛教徒之间的矛盾。泰国南部人口以马来族穆斯林为主，其它地区的人口以佛教徒为主。

Military officials in southern Thailand say angry villagers have killed two Thai marines they had taken hostage after accusing them of shooting to death fellow villagers. People in the Muslim village accused the two of taking part in the deadly shooting Tuesday night.

The Thai military denied the marines were involved. Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra blamed Muslim insurgents in the incident and vowed to track down those responsible. 

Southern Thailand has been shaken by violence related to a separatist insurgency, with more than 1,000 people killed since January 2004. The violence stems partly from tensions between the Muslim Malay majority in the south and the rest of the nation's Thai Buddhist majority.