A new report suggests Mexico's violent drug wars made it the second-deadliest conflict zone in the world last year.
一份新的報告表明,去年墨西哥的暴力毒品戰爭使其成為世界上第二致命沖突區。
According to The International Institute for Strategic Studies, there were about 23,000 homicides in Mexico in 2016.
根據國際戰略研究所,2016年墨西哥大約有23,000起兇殺案。
That death toll surpassed those in both Afghanistan and Iraq.
死亡人數超過了阿富汗和伊拉克。
And it was second only to Syria, where the country's civil war left around 50,000 people dead.
這僅次于敘利亞,該國的內戰造成約50,000人死亡。
The report's authors say that's pretty shocking, considering the drug wars in Mexico are being waged without artillery, tanks or combat aviation.
該報告的作者表示,這是相當令人震驚的,考慮到墨西哥毒品戰爭沒有涉及大炮、坦克和航空戰斗。
Instead, nearly all of the country's conflict deaths can be attributed to small arms.
相反,幾乎所有的國家沖突死亡歸因于小型武器。
Mexico's war on drug trafficking has been raging since 2006, and it has been compounded by drug cartels fighting each other for control.
自2006年以來,墨西哥對毒品走私的戰爭一直在激烈進行,而且販毒集團為了獲得控制相互爭斗。
Experts estimate at least 80,000 people have been killed in crime-related incidents in the last decade.
專家估計在過去十年中至少有80,000人死于與犯罪有關的事件。
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