2008年2月27日星期三 晴到多云
科索沃独立第一周记 下 （续完加译后语）
Kosovo Marks First Week of Independence
In the capital, Pristina, people gathered around a graffiti-covered sculpture of letters spelling out "NEWBORN." One person had scribbled in English: "We love you Kosovo!"
在首都普里什蒂纳，人们集聚在塗写着拼为“NEWBORN”（新生）的字母雕塑周围。有个人用英语乱写出“"We love you Kosovo!"（我们爱你，科索沃！）来。
The vast majority of Kosovo's population is ethnic Albanian. Serbs represent just 10 percent of the region's 2 million people, but they view Kosovo as the cradle of their culture and of their Orthodox Christian faith.
科索沃人口大部分是阿尔巴尼亚族。塞尔维亚人在两百万人的地区里只占10%，但他们将科索沃视为他们文化的发源地和他们正统基督教信仰的摇篮。
The territory had remained a part of Serbia even though it has been administered by the U.N. and NATO since 1999, when NATO airstrikes ended former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic's crackdown on ethnic Albanian separatists, which killed 10,000 people.
其领土保留了塞尔维亚人的那部分，尽管自1999年以来已归由U.N.（联合国）和NATO（北大西洋公约组织）管辖，那时，NATO用空袭结束了前南斯拉夫领导人Slobodan Milosevic对阿尔巴尼亚族分裂主义者的镇压，镇压中曾杀害一万人。
Thousands of Serbs held demonstrations in European capitals Sunday.
星期日，数千塞尔维亚人在欧洲各国首都游行示威。
In Vienna, Austria, more than 5,000 protesters waved pro-Serbia banners, and a few burned, spit or stomped on American flags. Later, demonstrators across the city smashed bottles and the windows of a cafe. Two police officers were injured and four people were arrested, officials said.
在奥地利的维也纳，5000多抗议者挥动着亲塞的旗帜，有些人在燃烧、吐唾、践踏美国国旗。随后，示威者在全市各处击碎酒瓶和咖啡店的窗户。官员们说，两位警官受伤，4人被逮捕。
In Geneva, up to 4,000 people gathered peacefully outside U.N. offices, and in Brussels, several hundred Serbs chanted "Kosovo is Serbia" outside EU offices.
在日内瓦，不下四千人和平集会在联合国办公场所外面。而在布鲁塞尔，数百塞族人欧盟办公场所外面唱着圣歌“科索沃就是塞尔维亚”。
Russia's ambassador to NATO said Sunday that Kosovo's independence bid was a result of an imperialistic American effort to "divide and rule," which would lead to Russia's boosting its military to ensure its own security.
俄罗斯大使星期日来到NATO说，科索沃独立的代价，是美帝国主义努力做到“分而治之”的结果，这将导致俄罗斯加强军事力量，确保其本身的安全。
"We are faced here with powerful hegemonism, imperialism on the part of the United States," Dmitry Rogozin said on Russia's state-run Vesti-24 television.
Dmitry Rogozin在俄罗斯国家电视台上说，“我们在这里面临强大的霸权主义，美国方面的帝国主义”。
Western nations that recognize Kosovo's statehood were replacing international law with a system in which "there will be only one rule: he who has brute physical power is strong and is right," he said.
他说，承认科索沃国家地位的西方国家，用“谁拥有残暴的物质力量，谁就强大、正确，作为唯一统治权威”的系统取代了国际法。
Russia will not go to arms over Kosovo, but instead will "use to the maximum our political and moral authority," he said.
他说，俄罗斯不会为科索沃采取军事行动，但会“在极大程度上运用我们的政治和道义力量”。
Serbia's nationalist prime minister, Vojislav Kostunica, called on the U.S. to revoke its decision to recognize "the fake state of Kosovo" and allow the U.N. Security Council to "reaffirm" Kosovo as part of Serbian territory.
塞尔维亚民族主义者Vojislav Kostunica总理，呼吁美国撤消承认“科索沃伪国家”的决定，并让联合国安理会“重申”科索沃是塞尔维亚领土的一部分。
Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci visited the grave of the late pacifist President Ibrahim Rugova _ revered among ethnic Albanians for his drive for statehood _ and reached out anew to Kosovo's Serb minority.
科索沃总理Hashim Thaci访问了新近的和平主义者Ibrahim Rugova 总统的墓地----- 阿尔巴尼亚族人敬重他追求国家独立---- 并再次向科索沃的塞尔维亚少数民族伸手示好。
"I will be beside them to help them to integrate in Kosovo's democratic institutions," said Thaci, a former guerrilla leader of the now-disbanded Kosovo Liberation Army. "All the rights of minorities will be respected."
Thaci是过去游击战，现已解散的科索沃解放军领导人之一。他说，“我将在他们身边，帮助他们在科索沃的民主制度下整合起来。少数民族所有的一切权利都将受到尊重”。
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Associated Press writers Dusan Stojanovic in Kosovska Mitrovica, Slobodan Lekic in Belgrade and Steve Gutterman in Moscow contributed to this report.
在Kosovska Mitrovica的Dusan Stojanovic、在Belgrade的Slobodan Lekic、在Moscow的Steve Gutterman这3位美联社的作者共同完成这篇报道。
译后语
“科索沃独立”是当前世界上一件大事。不仅已造成许多地区的动荡不安，而且在国际事务中导致严重混乱。我不懂，美国和西方国家为什么总要撇开联合国，简单决定国际上有严重争议的重大问题，强硬推行未经联合国充分研究协商的事务。世界上任一国家的国家地位，未经联合国认可，其他国家怎能承认呢？在这一事件中，美国彻底错了。美国在世界上有很大贡献。但老要超越联合国，无视各国人民。这无疑是霸权主义行为。任何霸权都不会有好下场。《第三帝国的灭亡》应是每个霸权主义者的覆辙。美国真该深思。
科索沃的问题一来，台湾有些人很动心，认为台湾比科索沃更有条件独立。美国的智库积极为台湾做工作。提出要白宫提升与台关系。这样说，一个个科索沃要跟上来。有那么简单吗？科索沃问题真的解决了吗？不可能。他们已经闯下大祸，不可能不付出代价。但愿人们头脑清醒，错了就改。有些人总是借口保护人的生命，而结果却在摧残更多的生命。美国的军备竞赛已从地球搞到外空去了。如果他自己不回头，只好任他害人又害己。
