12-15-2005

伊拉克議會選舉選民投票率高 (Strong Turnout in Iraq's Parliamentary Election)

零星的暴力未能干擾伊拉克新議會4年任期的選舉。選舉官員說，伊拉克18個省的投票率都很高，選民為275個議會席位進行投票。投票于當地時間下午5點結束。據報導，反叛分子猖獗的伊拉克西部的遜尼派阿拉伯人選區由於投票率高而缺少空白選票。遜尼派大多數人抵制了上次選舉。

儘管這次選舉有高度的保安措施，以及數萬伊拉克部隊和聯軍部隊的防護，不過還是出現零星暴力。兩人在伊拉克以北不同的事件中喪生。另外，在首都的綠區，一枚火箭襲擊導致3人受傷。為數不多的事件與今年1月過渡議會選舉時形成了鮮明的對比。那次選舉中有40多人喪生。

什葉派和庫爾德人在過渡議會佔多數地位，但是遜尼派阿拉伯人希望在新的議會中發揮更大的作用。選舉的最後結果預計在幾天后揭曉。

Sporadic violence failed to disrupt Iraq's vote for a new four-year parliament. Election officials reported strong turnout across the country's 18 provinces, where voters cast ballots for the 275-seat parliament. Polls closed at 5 p.m. Thursday. In insurgency-plagued western Iraq, a shortage of ballots was reported due to high turnout among Sunni Arabs who mostly boycotted the last election.

There was some violence, despite extremely tight security measures and tens of thousands of Iraqi and coalition troops on guard. Two people were killed in separate incidents north of Baghdad. Also, three people were wounded in a rocket attack on the capital's Green Zone. The limited number of incidents are in contrast to January's election for an interim assembly, when some 40 people were killed.

Shi'ites and Kurds dominated the interim assembly, but Sunni Arabs hope to have a bigger voice in the new parliament. Final election results are not expected for several days.

人權組織要求公開調查中國槍擊案 (Rights Group Demands Open Probe of China Shootings)

國際人權組織人權觀察要求北京當局允許對中國南方一座村莊最近發生的事件進行獨立調查。中國警察開槍打死了抗議政府佔用土地作法的居民。人權觀察星期四說，目前迫切需要對廣東省警察開槍的事件展開公開調查，可以由聯合國進行，也可以由其他的獨立專家進行。

東洲村的居民說，村民認為政府徵用土地時賠償不合理，在上星期的抗議過程中，警察向他們開槍，打死大約20人。中國官方媒體已經證實，東洲村發生了槍擊事件，但是還有許多細節還不清楚，外人也不準進入東洲村。

Human Rights Watch, an international rights group, is calling on authorities in Beijing to allow an independent investigation of recent events at a village in southern China where police fired on and killed residents protesting terms of a government seizure of their land. Human Rights Watch says Thursday there is an urgent need for an open investigation of the police shootings in Guangdong province -- either by the United Nations or by other independent experts.

Residents of Dongzhou village said police fired on and killed about 20 people last week, during a protest against the Chinese government's supposedly inadequate payments for land it expropriated. Chinese state-run news media have confirmed there was a shooting incident in Dongzhou village, but many details remain unclear, and outsiders have been denied access to the village.