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Terror's new depths

机译:恐怖的新深度

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It is an utterly ordinary sight: a boy and wo girls, aged maybe 11 or 12, laughing together as they scuttle down the street. But in this place it makes the heart stop, even an outsider's heart. To a parent who has just lost a child, or several children, to bullets and shrapnel, the reminder that someone else's children are still alive must be excruciating. Add to that pain the anguish of dozens of relatives and friends. Mix in ethnic hatred, anger at official bungling, and the fear born of not comprehending why the horror happened but realising that nobody knows how to stop it happening again. Now multiply those feelings several hundred times. This is Beslan. The usual cliches of misfortune are too feeble. It is "a town in mourning"-as was Columbine. But Beslan, only slightly bigger than the place where America's worst school shooting claimed 15 lives, is mourning a loss that, once the missing have been added to the dead, may be over 30 times as great. In the central district near the charred wreckage of Middle School Number One, where terrorists held over 1,100 people hostage in the gym for 52 hours before blowing it up, there are blocks of flats that have lost two dozen residents, and coffin lids and wreaths fill the entrances to the stairwells. On the streets every huddle of people is a wake, every line of cars a burial cavalcade; keening and crying sounds float out of one door after another.
机译:这是完全平凡的景象:一个男孩和两个女孩,年龄分别为11或12岁,在街上闲逛时一起大笑。但是在这个地方,它使心脏停止运转,甚至使局外人的心脏停止运转。对于刚刚失去一个孩子或几个孩子的子弹和弹片的父母来说,提醒别人的孩子还活着一定是令人折服的。数十名亲戚和朋友的痛苦使这一痛苦更加沉重。混入种族仇恨,对官僚作风的愤怒,以及对不理解恐怖事件发生原因的恐惧,但意识到没有人知道如何阻止恐怖事件再次发生。现在,将这些感受增加几百倍。这是别斯兰。通常的不幸经历太微弱了。就像哥伦拜恩一样,它是“哀悼之城”。但是,比美国最糟糕的学校枪击事件夺去15条生命的地方稍大的别斯兰(Beslan)哀悼着一种损失,一旦失踪者被添加到死者中,其损失可能会超过30倍。在中央一号中学烧焦的残骸附近的中部地区,恐怖分子在炸毁健身房之前将其劫持为人质,在健身房里绑架了52个小时,其中有1100多人被劫持,其中一些公寓楼已经失去了二十多名居民,棺材盖和花圈满座楼梯间的入口。在大街上,每一个拥挤的人都是苏醒,每行汽车都是葬礼的行列。刺耳的声音和哭泣的声音从一扇门传出。

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