Re: なんだかなぁ・・>白燐弾
投稿者: pyu_pyu_kitakaze 投稿日時: 2005/11/18 16:25 投稿番号: [174404 / 177456]
・・・バクダッドの貧困層についてのアルジャジーラの記事。
・・・圧政と戦禍によって荒廃した故郷からバクダッドのスラム街に追いやられる人々について。
Iraq's poor struggle to survive
Friday 18 November 2005, 9:11 Makka Time, 6:11 GMT
Prisoner abuse reports are dominating the news in Iraq, but poverty is also producing shocking images - of families living on rotting garbage dumps.
(抜き書き)
Bad to worse
When Saddam's agents destroyed their homes in the Shia-populated marshlands of southern Iraq, the Jabrs and others moved to Baghdad looking for work. Money was scarce and life only got worse after the Iraqi leader was ousted.
Everyday they comb Baghdad neighbourhoods for trash, hoping to find valuables to sell or leftover food. They fill plastic bags with trash and bring them to their dump. Birds and cows also pick through the waste as US helicopters fly overhead.
With no electricity, such families seek refuge from winter cold and blistering summer heat in small huts made of cooking oil cans, bits of drift wood and mud.
Water is gathered from dirty, leaking pipes nearby and carried in plastic jugs on donkeys.
The harsh conditions rarely make headlines in the Iraqi or foreign media, whose attention is now focused on a group of prisoners found locked in an Interior Ministry bunker.
Baghdad, where more than three million Iraqis live, is not the only place where the desperately poor struggle to survive.
In the southern city of Najaf, about 100 families occupy more than 50 tent-like shelters built of tin and plastic bags on top of a sprawling garbage dump.
Dollar a day
"I work with my parents collecting garbage," said eight- year-old Saad Hassan. "I sit every day and I collect string, tin cans and other useful things.・・・(以下略)
Aljazeera
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C4ECF37E-ADBE-4C13-BDA5-2CB166E5F59D.htm
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・・・lovepeacemamaさん,こんにちは。<(_ _)>
・・・圧政と戦禍によって荒廃した故郷からバクダッドのスラム街に追いやられる人々について。
Iraq's poor struggle to survive
Friday 18 November 2005, 9:11 Makka Time, 6:11 GMT
Prisoner abuse reports are dominating the news in Iraq, but poverty is also producing shocking images - of families living on rotting garbage dumps.
(抜き書き)
Bad to worse
When Saddam's agents destroyed their homes in the Shia-populated marshlands of southern Iraq, the Jabrs and others moved to Baghdad looking for work. Money was scarce and life only got worse after the Iraqi leader was ousted.
Everyday they comb Baghdad neighbourhoods for trash, hoping to find valuables to sell or leftover food. They fill plastic bags with trash and bring them to their dump. Birds and cows also pick through the waste as US helicopters fly overhead.
With no electricity, such families seek refuge from winter cold and blistering summer heat in small huts made of cooking oil cans, bits of drift wood and mud.
Water is gathered from dirty, leaking pipes nearby and carried in plastic jugs on donkeys.
The harsh conditions rarely make headlines in the Iraqi or foreign media, whose attention is now focused on a group of prisoners found locked in an Interior Ministry bunker.
Baghdad, where more than three million Iraqis live, is not the only place where the desperately poor struggle to survive.
In the southern city of Najaf, about 100 families occupy more than 50 tent-like shelters built of tin and plastic bags on top of a sprawling garbage dump.
Dollar a day
"I work with my parents collecting garbage," said eight- year-old Saad Hassan. "I sit every day and I collect string, tin cans and other useful things.・・・(以下略)
Aljazeera
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C4ECF37E-ADBE-4C13-BDA5-2CB166E5F59D.htm
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