9-21-2005

印尼衛生部長警告禽流感流行 (Indonesian Health Minister Warns of Bird Flu Epidemic)

印度尼西亞衛生部長西蒂.法蒂拉.蘇帕莉警告說，禽流感有可能在印尼成為大規模流行病。與此同時，印尼又有一個顯示有禽流感症狀的病人死亡。一名五歲的小女孩星期三在雅加達一家醫院去世。衛生官員正在等待化驗結果。如果被證實禽流感是死因，這將是印尼的第五起禽流感死亡病例。

另一方面，印尼農業部部長安東.阿卜裏延托諾說，政府計劃在禽流感病毒感染嚴重的地區屠宰大批禽類。印尼政府曾經說，它負擔不起大規模宰宰禽類。印尼這個星期早些時候提出採取“非常措施”抑制禽流感蔓延。2003年以來，禽流感已經在四個東南亞國家造成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.

憤怒泰國村民殺死兩海軍陸戰隊員 (Angry Thai Villagers Kill Two Marines)

泰國南部的軍事官員說， 憤怒的村民殺死了兩名被他們扣為人質的泰國海軍陸戰隊軍人。村民指控他們兩人開槍射殺了他們的同村人。這座穆斯林村莊裏的村民指控這兩個人星期二夜晚參與了一起槍擊命案。

泰國軍方否認這兩名陸戰隊員參與了那次事件。泰國總理他信.欽那瓦把槍擊事件歸咎於穆斯林反叛分子，並堅決表示要追查真兇。

泰國南部不斷發生跟分離主義反叛活動有關的暴力事件。自從2004年1月以來已經有一千多人喪生。暴力發生的部份原因有關馬來族穆斯林與佛教徒之間的矛盾。泰國南部人口以馬來族穆斯林為主，其他地區的人口以佛教徒為主。

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.