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Sri Lanka's Disappeared: No closure
斯里蘭卡的失蹤人員：尚未終結
The wounds of Civil War remain raw.
內戰之殤仍在作痛。
“I Still believe he's alive,” says Tharsini Santhirabose with a glazed, fixed smile.
Tharsini Santhirabose目光呆滯、僵硬地笑著說，“我一直相信他還活著”。
She last saw her husband, a fellow guerrilla for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, in the final days of the civil war that ended with the Tigers' obliteration in 2009.
她的丈夫是泰米爾伊拉姆猛虎解放組織的一名游擊隊員，她最后一次見到他的丈夫是在在內戰結束前夕，但戰爭最后是以2009年猛虎組織的徹底失敗而告終。
Up to 40,000 civilians were killed, according to the UN, along with most of the remnants of the 10,000-strong separatist army and perhaps 5,000 hangers-on.
根據聯合國的統計，多達四萬平民死于這場戰爭中，猛虎組織中擁有一萬兵力的分裂之一軍隊可能只剩下5000名殘兵了。
The chances that Ms Santhirabose's husband will reappear are virtually nil.
所以Santhirabose女士的丈夫生還的可能性是微乎其微。
No one knows precisely how many died or disappeared in the war.
沒有人準確地知道有多少人在戰爭中死亡或失蹤。
A fervently Tamil-nationalist Catholic bishop claims that, after the 26 years of fighting, 147,000 people, civilians and fighters, remain unaccounted for.
一位狂熱極端的泰米爾民族主義叛軍聲稱，在他們與政府軍長達26年的戰爭后，有十四萬七千人死亡或失蹤，這其中包括平民和士兵。
The foreign ministry says that more than 65,000 queries about missing people have been received since 1994.
外交部表示自1994年起，他們已經收到了超過六萬五千條詢問失蹤人口的信件。
A few thousand former Tiger “cadres”, as they are known, have re-emerged from government “rehabilitation” camps.
據稱，幾千名前猛虎組織的“核心骨干”重新出現在政府改造營中。
Many Tamils believe that secret detention camps still exist.
許多泰米爾人認為這里存在著一個秘密關押營。
Others claim, bizarrely, that the government has sent thousands of defeated fighters to undisclosed destinations abroad.
其他人絕望的聲稱，政府把這些數以千計的戰敗的猛虎組織成員送往到不明的國外某處。
Many also say that the Sri Lankan army's reluctance to give back land now used as army bases is because they do not want mass graves to be discovered.
也有人說斯里蘭卡的軍隊不想歸還用于軍事基地的土地，是因為他們不像讓人發現軍事基地里的集中埋葬的墳地。
譯文來源考研英語時事閱讀
