人命的價值(紐約時報對台灣莫拉克颱風的報導)
紐約時報報導原文:
Taiwan president accused of slow action after deadly typhoon
12:00 AM CDT on Thursday, August 13, 2009
(記者安德魯.約克布)Andrew Jacobs, The New York Times
CHISHAN, Taiwan – If President Ma Ying-jeou thought he might be treated presidentially on Wednesday as he toured a center for survivors of last weekend's typhoon, he was mistaken.
如果馬英九總統覺得他在星期三巡視災民中心時可以得到總統般的對待,那他錯了。
The moment he stepped onto a soccer field that has been doubling as a landing pad for rescue helicopters, Ma was besieged by angry villagers who accused his administration of moving too slowly to help those still trapped in the mountains. As the insults rained down, the skies opened and Ma became drenched to the skin, all of it captured live on television.
當他走進一個被當作搜救直升機停機坪的足球場時,馬英九被憤怒的群眾圍住,指控他的行政團隊動的太慢,不能幫助臨近山區那些還被困住的人。這些指責(原文用insult:污辱)大量地攻擊馬,汗水浸濕了皮膚,全都被電視Live拍起來了。
"Save us, people are dying," villagers yelled while holding aloft handmade banners that read, "The government doesn't value human life."
「救救我們,人們快死了啊」,居民吶喊著,揮舞著手作的標語上面寫著「政府不顧人民性命」。
Chen Tai-sheng, who trudged out from his mud-soaked village two days ago, said the president should spend less time touring the country and more time orchestrating rescue efforts. “This is a war, not a political campaign,” Mr. Chen yelled.
兩天前從他被泥濘掩埋村落,步行出來的陳姓民眾說總統應該花少一點時間在視察,而多花時間在協調救災。「這是一場戰爭,不是一個政治宣傳」,陳先生用所有人都聽得道的聲音吶喊。
Typhoon Morakot, one of the worst natural disasters to hit Taiwan in 50 years, is also turning into an unpleasant political experience for Ma, the former mayor of Taipei who was elected last year by a respectable margin, but whose popularity has been steadily dropping.
莫拉克颱風,五十年來襲擊台灣最嚴重的天然災害之一,也成為馬英九政治生涯中的不愉快經驗。前任台北市長的馬英九,去年才在總統選舉中大勝,但現在聲望直直落。
The storm, which killed at least 67 people across the island and left scores missing, has turned into the kind of test that can make or break political careers, or in the case of Ma, provide fodder to the opposition— and irresistible images to a voracious press.
已經至少奪走六十七條人命,還留下許多失蹤人口的大風水,已經變成可能影響他政治生涯的考驗了,或是說提供了在野黨攻擊馬英九,以及非常吸引媒體注意的理由。
On Monday, during an earlier tour of his waterlogged nation, Mr. Ma was seen promising a bulldozer to a man who was searching for the body of his father. Two days later, after failing to persuade officials to make good on the pledge, the man, Lee Yu-ying, was forced to rent his own equipment to dig out his father’s mud-encased car.
在稍早,星期一巡視成為水鄉澤國的國家時,馬英九似乎對某個正在尋找他父親的人,答應給一台挖土機。兩天過去,在無法說服官員通融,無法拿出抵押品下,李先生被迫只能用他自己的工具挖出他老爸被泥土覆蓋的車。
“What kind of help was that?” Mr. Lee asked TVBS, a cable news channel.
「這哪門子的幫助?」李先生問TVBS說。
s with most natural disasters, there has been plenty of blame to go around. When the extent of the storm’s wrath became clear on Sunday, Mr. Ma criticized the country’s water resources agency for ineptitude and accused the national weather bureau of failing to predict rainfall that soaked some parts of the country for three or more days.
就像大多的自然災害一般,有許多指責礁鄉出現。但星期日莫拉克的災情明顯時,馬英九批評中央氣象局的預報不準,讓這個國家許多部分多泡了三四天的水。
On Tuesday, the president of the government’s investigative arm, the Control Yuan, said he would look into whether agencies or officials had a role in the extent of devastation.
星期二,政府的調查部門監察院說,他們會看是否有官員需要為這次災害負責。
“If no corrective measures are taken we will impeach them, impeach them and impeach them until they do what we want them to do,” said Wang Chien-hsuan, the agency’s president.
「如果沒有任何懲治行為,我們會彈劾彈劾再彈劾直到他們做到我們想的」,監察院長王XX說。(譯按:你吃屎比較快)
Most everyone here has been stunned by the ferocity of Morakot, which dumped more than 80 inches of water in some places, swelling rivers that washed away bridges and spurring landslides that buried entire villages.
大多數人都領教到莫拉克的威力,它在某些地方下了超過八十英吋的雨,高漲的河流淹過了橋樑,造成掩蓋整個村落的土石流。
A weekend of typhoons claimed two dozen lives in eastern China, Japan and the Philippines, but Morakot had its deadliest impact on the isolated hamlets that dot the mountains of southern Taiwan.
一個週末,颱風在中國、日本以及菲律賓都帶走一些人命,但最致命的傷害在南台灣的某個孤立村落中造成。
Rescue officials, cut off from dozens of communities, have been unable to estimate the number of those dead or missing. Residents who have made it out alive, however, suggest the figures could be well into the hundreds.
搜救官員無法預估死亡以及失蹤的數量,因為許多村落失聯。從這些村落倖免於難的人說,數字可能會到上百人。
Li Jing-rong, 50, a farmer from Hsiao-lin, a village of 1,300 set deep within the craggy folds of Kaohsiung County, said the most densely settled part of town was erased by a wall of rock and dirt that narrowly missed his home.
擁有一千三百人,位在高雄縣深山的小林村五十歲農夫林先生說,該城鎮大部分的地方都完全被石頭以及泥土覆蓋了,幾乎無法辨識他的家。
“No one could have survived that,” he said.
「沒有人可以從那種情況活下來」,他說。
He said that at least 600 people, including his parents, were swept away around 6 a.m. on Sunday. The survivors from his end of the village, about 40 people, scurried to an open area and then spent three days waiting in the rain before helicopters arrived on Tuesday. He said a separate group of 30, including his brother, were waiting for help in another valley.
他說至少有六百人,包括他的父母,在星期日早上六點左右被沖走。在村落邊界的倖存者,約莫四十人,在大雨中的空地等了三天,直升機在星期二才到來。他說另一群約三十人,包括他的弟弟,在另一個山谷中等候救援。
“I wish the government would work faster because they have nothing to eat,” he said after confronting the president.
「我希望政府動作能快一點,因為他們沒東西吃了」,他在見過總統後說。
Throughout the day, as sunshine alternated with soaking downpours, helicopters thundered in and out of Chishan Middle School’s sports field. During the morning, the helicopters picked up supplies. By afternoon, they were returning with muddied and barefoot villagers from a town called Minzu.
一整天,從晴天到大雨,直升機在旗山中學的操場起起降降。早上帶去補給品,下午他們返回帶回了赤腳的民族村村民。
They were for the most part the dark-skinned citizens of Taiwan known as aborigines, the indigenous mountain-dwellers who have sometimes had an uneasy relationship with the island’s more recently arrived Han Chinese ruling class.
As the survivors scurried across the grass, rotors whirling above their heads, a crowd of people, some weeping and wailing, surged forward to meet loved ones, or to ask about those still unaccounted for. “Have you seen my mother?” one woman screamed again and again. No one responded.
螺旋槳在草地上奔跑著的生還者頭上轉著,一群人哭泣著急著找尋他們親愛的人,或是問別人是否有下落。「你有看到我媽媽嗎?」一個婦女一次又一次尖叫地問。沒人回應。
The injured were bundled into ambulances; taxis and minivans took away everyone else. During the quiet between the arrival and departure of each helicopter, people worried aloud about the unrelenting rain or complained that too many boxes of instant noodles were being delivered to those huddling outdoors without access to water or stoves.
受傷者被送上救護車;計程車以及休旅車則帶其他人。在直昇機起落的寂靜間,人們擔心著無情的雨水,或是抱怨說空投太多泡麵了,裡面根本沒有爐子以及水可以煮。
其他人只是為之前三天的災害搖搖頭,太多人還與外界失聯中。
Aijo Wu, a 23-year-old law student who has had no word from her extended family in the village of Taoyuan, was the last person to talk to Mr. Ma before his security detail whisked him away. She begged him to speed up the pace of the rescue efforts, but after he left she was less timid in her comments to reporters.
23歲,還無法與桃源鄉親戚聯絡上的法律系吳同學,想在馬英九隨扈還沒注意到將他保護走時,跟馬英九講一些話。她說如果馬英九願意聽的話,她希望馬英九可 以派出更多的軍人到山上,用更多的軍用直升機搜救,以及接受外國的援助。
“If there are 20,000 people stranded but the army is only using 30 of their helicopters, a lot of people are going to die,” she said. “I’m angry that the president won’t ask the outside world for help.”
「如果有兩萬人無依無靠但只用了三十輛直升機,很多人會死掉啊」她說。「我對總統 不接受外界的救援感到生氣。」
A rescuer crossed a river on his way to a flooded village in Kaohsiung County on Wednesday.
The New York Times
Kaohsiung County was hit hard by floods and landslides.
原文連結
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/13/world/asia/13taiwan.html
法國媒體提醒台灣人不要輕易放過馬英九?
Les dommages politiques d’un typhon meurtrier
一場致命颱風的政治折損
par RFI
Article publié le 16/08/2009 Dernière mise à jour le 16/08/2009 à 14:49 TU
Plusd'une semaine après le passage du cyclone Morakot, les opérations desecours sont enfin à la hauteur de la catastrophe. Près de 150 000hommes travaillent désormais d'arrache-pied pour venir en aide aux milliers personnes toujours prises au piège par des coulées de boue etles pluies de mousson. Les Etats-Unis viennent d'envoyer sur place des hélicoptères gros porteurs. La Chine offre également son aide. Quant auprésident taïwanais, les excuses qu'il a formulées bien tardivement risquent de ne pas suffire à effacer la colère des victimes.
在莫拉克颱風侵襲過了一個禮拜多之後,救災投入終於符合此災難的規模。從今天起,有近十五萬的人員戮力協助那數千名一直陷在雨打泥流中的人們。美國的重負荷直升機甫派遣至現場,中國也提供了援助。至於台灣的總統,其遲來的道歉看來是不足以澆熄災民的怒火。
Evacuation en hélicoptère de villageois, dans le district montagneux de Kaohsiung, au sud de Taiwan, le 11 août 2009.
(Photo : Reuters)
圖說:南台灣高雄山區,直昇機正在撤離村民
Morakot,s'est éloigné de Taiwan depuis longtemps, mais le typhon pourrait biense transformer en une tempête politique durable aux conséquences désastreuses pour le président Ma Ying-jeou. Et pourtant l'ancien mairede Taipei vient out juste d'accéder au pouvoir.
莫拉克颱風早離開台灣了,但是,對馬英九總統而言,災難的結果,可能會使颱風轉變為一長期的政治風暴,雖然,這位前台北市長才剛取得政權不久。
Enmai dernier, lui le candidat du Kuomintang partisan d'un rapprochementavec la Chine, remporte haut la main l'élection présidentielle avec unslogan qui fait mouche : « Nous sommes prêts ». Depuis, Ma Ying-jeou n'avait pas vraiment eu de crise nationale à gérer.
去年的五月,這個親中派的國民黨候選人,以一個完美達陣的口號「我們準備好了」,輕輕鬆鬆贏得總統大選,但自彼時至颱風之前,馬英九是真的沒有遇過什麼國家級災難要處理。
Le président taiwanais, Ma Ying-jeou au centre d'évacuation du Comté de Kaohsiung, au sud de Taiwan, le 12 août 2009.
(Photo : Reuters)
圖說:台灣總統馬英九在南台灣高雄縣的撤出中心。
Et pour beaucoup de ses électeurs, les slogans de campagne n'ont pas résisté au typhon meurtrier.
對於許許多多他的選民而言,這些選舉口號經不起這場致命颱風的考驗。
Cesderniers jours, les chaines de télévision locale n'ont pas cessé dediffuser des images de gens furieux contre le gouvernement.
這幾天,該地的媒體頻道不斷地播放人民對政府不滿憤怒的畫面。
Enprésentant ses excuses, le président a tenté de désamorcé lemécontentement populaire, mais son gouvernement semble désormais marqué dans l'esprit d'une partie des taïwanais par l'absence des responsabilités.
總統試圖借由道歉來平息人們的不滿,但似乎從今起,他的政府在部份台灣人的心目中,已經烙印下「不負責任」的印記。
Ma Ying-Jeou va devoir faire oublier cette mauvaise gestion lorsque la phase d'urgence sera terminée, sinon sonparti pourrait souffrir lors des élections régionales prévues à la finde l'année.
當緊急狀況結束後,馬英九必須讓人們忘了這場糟糕的管理,否則他的政黨將在年底的地方選舉吃盡苦頭。
本報導原文出處 連結
面對國際媒體批評台灣的救災能力,馬英九16日親上火線解釋台灣救災的努力。
馬英九接受美國有線電視新聞網CNN訪問時,記者提問犀利:“這次風災的救災行動,是不是太慢?”
馬英九見招拆招,“對這次風災為台灣帶來嚴重損害,會負起責任,也會懲處該負起責任的官員。”
CNN在報道這一則新聞時,主播一開場就毫不客氣,直接問連線的記者,馬英九的“辯解”是什麼?
CNN記者問,“你如何回應,民眾指責你和‘政府’,救災行動太慢的問題?”
馬英九表示,對於這一次救災,“受到地形及天氣的影響很大,但也因此招致許多民怨和批評”;馬英九也說,身為領導人,他願意負起所有責任。
CNN繼續追問,“該怎麼負責?”
馬英九指出,“這次風災這麼嚴重,會調查救災系統與救難行動是否出了什麼狀況,不只改正錯誤,也會懲處該負起責任的官員。”
面對50年來最大水災,有民眾和媒體指責臺當局救災不力,也有人拿10年前的921地震和這次風災相提並論。
馬英九則回應說,“颱風與地震,本來就不一樣,地震在5分鐘後,一切都平靜下來,但颱風的話,雨會一直下。”
馬英九還表示,風災後幾天雨一直下,導致直升機無法上山救人,“不過事後證明,這是台灣史上,最有效率的一次空運行動。”
馬英九說,“我們從山區疏散了7700多名受困居民,都是以直升機運送出來,這是台灣史上,最大的直升機空運行動。”
此外,此次救災過程中被批評和外界溝通不良的台灣災害應變中心,16日晚間召開國際記者會,但境外媒體卻尖銳質疑:台灣官方救災緩慢,逼得指揮官只能一再澄清解釋。
2009.8.16馬英九接受CNN訪問
《蘋果》民調馬英九是否應該為此次風災救災延遲下台負責?
2009年08月18日蘋果日報
CNN民調 8成要馬下台
2009年08月18日蘋果日報
總統府:避談口水
對此,總統府發言人王郁琦說:「我們會虛心檢討。」至於CNN此舉是否在干預台灣內政,王說:「現在一切以救災為主,不談政治口水。」
CNN 開放全球網友投票詢問:「Should Taiwan’s leader stand down over delays in aiding typhoon victims?(台灣領導人是否應為延誤救災下台)」活動至昨天下午3時結束,計有1萬3847人次投票,其中1萬1344人次答Yes(是),比例高 達82%;僅有2503人次答No(不是),佔18%。
路基坍陷實錄
可以思考任何工程應如何【尊敬自然】,特別是水。水的力量真是不可思議,可載舟亦可覆舟
前後不到4分鐘,中斷村落的道路。 以後的道路排水系統設計應該要更嚴謹才行。
拍得真用心!每個工程師必看!引以為戒!!!
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