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雙語暢銷書《我是馬拉拉》第16章:悲傷之谷(5)

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Now their helicopters flew in pairs overhead like big black buzzing insects,

雙語暢銷書《我是馬拉拉》第16章:悲傷之谷(5)
他們的直升機成羣結隊地從我們的頭頂飛過,彷彿又大又黑又吵的昆蟲。

and when we walked home we stayed close to the walls so they wouldn't see us.

回家時,爲了不讓它們發現,我們只有緊貼着牆壁行走。

We heard that thousands of people had been arrested including boys as young as eight who had been brainwashed to train for suicide bombing missions.

我們聽說數以千計的人被逮捕,其中包括被洗腦後接受成爲自殺式炸彈襲擊者訓練的男孩子們,最小的只有八歲。

The army was sending them to a special camp for jihadis to de-radicalise them.

軍隊把他們送到一個特殊的集中營,來消除他們的聖戰激進思想。

One of the people arrested was our old Urdu teacher who had refused to teach girls and had instead gone to help Fazlullah's men collect and destroy CDs and DVDs.

我們的一位烏爾都語老師也被捕了。他拒絕爲女孩們上課,跑去幫法茲魯拉的手下蒐集並摧毀CD和DVD。

Fazlullah himself was still at large.

法茲魯拉仍逍遙法外。

The army had destroyed his headquarters in Imam Deri and then claimed to have him surrounded in the mountains of Peochar.

軍方摧毀了他位於伊滿德里的多座住所,然後宣稱他們已將他團團圍困在皮歐查的山上。

Then they said he was badly injured and that they had his spokesman, Muslim Khan, in custody.

後來,他們又說他身負重傷,並且他們已經把他的發言人穆斯林·汗給關了起來。

Later the story changed and they reported that Fazlullah had escaped into Afghanistan and was in the province of Kunar.

過了一段時間,故事又變了。他們說法茲魯拉已經逃進阿富汗,正躲在庫納爾省。

Some people said that Fazlullah had been captured but that the army and the ISI couldn't agree on what to do with him.

有些人說法茲魯拉曾一度被捕,但軍方跟ISI在如何處置他的問題上無法達成共識。

The army had wanted to imprison him, but the intelligence service had prevailed and taken him to Bajaur so that he could slip across the border to Afghanistan.

軍方想把他關起來,但情報部門最後獲勝,把他帶到巴焦爾以便他跨越邊境逃到阿富汗。

Muslim Khan and another commander called Mehmud seemed to be the only members of the Taliban leadership who were in custody – all the others were still free.

現在看來,塔利班領導階層中,只有穆斯林·汗和另一名叫作馬赫穆德的指揮官被拘押,其他人都還是自由之身。

As long as Fazlullah was still around I was afraid the Taliban would regroup and return to power.

只要法茲魯拉還在,我擔心,塔利班就會重整旗鼓,奪回權力。