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The veterans of the war in Afghanistan are still alive, while we are slowly wasting away.
阿富汗戰爭的退役軍人依然活著，我們卻逐漸憔悴。
I have written a poem about this: Sadness fills me.
我對此寫了一首, 心里充滿悲悵。
Nostalgia and anguish.
滿滿的鄉愁與苦痛。
Like a bullet in the temple.
有如太陽穴的子彈
Nothing can ever stop.
怎樣也無法止息。
The mother prays in secret to God.
母親偷偷對上帝祈禱。
To spare his life...
懇求饒恕他的命......
These men weren't even thirty when they were sent in to battle the atom.
多數奉命前往對抗原子的人都還不到歲.
Today, those that survive are not even 50 years old, but they struggle like senior citizens.
如今幸存者不但已經50歲，還必須如老年人一般地奮力求生。
According to the military, of the 500,000 Chernobyl liquidators twenty thousand have already died.
根據軍方說法，五十萬名清理人當中有兩萬人已經死亡。
200,000 are officially disabled.
而有萬人宣告殘障。
You don't know how long you have to live, or what disease is going to kill you.
你不知道自已還能再活多久，或是自已會死于何種疾病。
You don't know what effects it will have on your children, if you have any.
你不知道自已的孩子會受到何等影響，如果你能有孩子的話。
We know all that, and we know the invisible enemy is eating away inside of us like a worm.
我們都知道這些問題，也知道體內正被無形的敵人鯨吞蠶食。
For us, the war continues, and little by little we're slipping away from this world.
我們的戰爭仍在持續，而我們正逐漸從這個世界萎逝。
Yet for two decades, only 59 deaths had officially been attributed to the Chernobyl disaster.
然而20年后，只有59人的死亡，被官方歸咎于切爾諾貝利災變。
Not a single study has been carried out on the 130,000 refugees from the zone.
沒有任何關于該區13萬名難民的研究。
Not a single statistic on the state of the 500,000 liquidators.
沒有任何關于50萬名清理人狀況的統計數字。
No figures on the population that continues to live around Chernobyl and in the contaminated areas.
也沒有任何數字是關于繼續住在切爾諾貝利附近與污染區的人口。
The real amount of radiation these people were exposed to has never been revealed to them.
這些人未曾被告知他們所暴露的真正輻射值。
A deputy of the Supreme Soviet discovered the systematic cover-up of the true consequences
最高蘇維埃一名代表發現當局有系統隱瞞，切爾諾貝利事故真正的后果，
of Chernobyl when the Soviet Empire dissolved in 1991.
就在蘇聯帝國于1991年瓦解時。
Taking advantage of the anarchy in the country she managed to get her hands on a copy of top secret documents:
趁著當時的無政府狀態之便，她設法取得了最高機密文件影本，那是中央委員會的600頁報告：
600 pages of a report to the Central Committee written while the Battle of Chernobyl was stillraging.
撰述時間是在搶救切爾諾貝利一役仍在進行的時候。
When I read these documents, I discovered everything happened differently.
我讀到這些文件時發現一切都有很大的出入。
I realized just how huge the lie the Party leaders told.
這才知道，黨領導人對我們說了彌天大謊。
Decree No12 stated that on May 12, 1986, 10,198 people had already been hospitalized:
12號法令敘述，1986年5月12日，已經有10198人住院治療：
"345 showed signs of radio-lesions..."
“345人顯示放射性病變癥狀”。
Yet at the same time, they were telling us everything was fine,
但是這同時，他們卻告訴我們一切都很好，
that it was nothing serious, and I realized the scope of the lies.
沒有什么大礙，我這才發現他們說了多大的謊言。
