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War Reporting on Kosovo科索沃战争c
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Words and Expressions:
KLA (Kosovo Liberation Army)科索沃解放军
Serb Security Forces塞族保安部队
to reinforce加强
to claim声称
refugee camp难民营
slaughter残杀
massacre大屠杀
convoy车队
ethnic cleansing种族清洗
genocide种族灭绝
to commit genocide犯种族灭绝罪
to devalue贬值
to inflame煽动(情绪)
BBC TV‘Six O’Clock News’29/10/98
The KLA says the security forces have been steadily reinforcing by night and hiding tanks and artillery pieces by day. The KLA has also made claims of an overnight bombardment by the security forces, in which refugees were caught up. That hasn’t been independently confirmed and the Serbian authorities say no incidents of fighting were reported overnight.
BBC Radio 4‘The World at One’: Interview with Daily Telegraph reporter Julian Strauss 5/10/98
Just over a week ago now some Serbian forces¾we’re not quite sure who they are¾attacked a refugee camp in the middle of a forest where women and children were living and some old men, and they slaughtered everybody and the one person who survived was a six-week-old baby who was found by her father who wasn’t there at the time, was found by her father in her dead mother’s arms and the little baby is the only survivor we know of this massacre.
BBC TV‘Nine O’Clock News’19/4/99
Newsreader: Nato bombing of chemical plant in Pancova created huge clouds of poison gas that spread over the town and carried by the wind further towards Belgrade, jeopardising the lives of more than two million people’.
John Simpson:In fact, circumstances have so far prevented any serious effects on the people of Belgrade¾all the same there is a fear among scientists that an ecological disaster could happen.
Studio discussion
Fred: Kate Adie¾welcome back to the programme. Now, in this edition, we’ve heard from Kosovo in the late 1990s. And there are terms, which we’ve heard frequently, like‘ethnic cleansing’and‘genocide’. What’s your view of using these in war reporting?
Kate: There are times when it is necessary. Pol Pot committed genocide and there were massacres in many a conflict in the last thirty years which were properly described as such. What you have to be careful of when you are a reporter is not to put in language which actually devalues those words.‘Genocide’is a strong and serious and significant word. It should not refer to small scale and random behaviour.‘Massacre’is a tremendously powerful word. It does not cover a couple of murders. And to use those words in a loose sense, to use them frequently devalues not only the language but it also is inaccurate to describe what is going on and it inflames. So, I think you have to be very sparing in your use of words.
Fred: Kate Adie, thank you very much indeed for joining us.
Editor:
杨岷
From:
Enorth.com.cn 2004-03-03 15:25
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