2007年VOA标准英语-Guinea's Military Intensifies Protest
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Dakar
11 May 2007
The presidential guard in Guinea blocked hundreds of soldiers from marching on the presidential palace in Conakry Friday. The soldiers are demanding back pay and calling on top military officials to resign. VOA's Nico Colombant reports from our West Africa bureau in Dakar.
A Guinean solder (file photo 20 Feb 2007)
Banks and shops quickly closed in the center of the capital, while residents fled the area.
Trucks full of soldiers, as well as soldiers on foot, headed toward the presidential palace in the early afternoon.
Journalist Maseco Conde, on the scene, said the soldiers were initially 2 blocked by presidential guards.
Earlier in the day, negotiators for the soldiers met with Prime Minister Lansana Kouyate and demanded that military commanders be replaced.
Mr. Kouyate has been meeting with President Lansana Conte, but the angry soldiers have said they want to meet the president directly.
In another night of rioting Thursday, soldiers outside their barracks, all across the country, shot in the air. In the early morning hours Friday, two civilians 3 were reported killed by stray bullets in the town of Kindia, east of Conakry.
The soldiers began their protest earlier this month, with nightly rampages of shooting and looting. They are demanding back pay they say they are owed since 1996.
Mr. Kouyate was recently named prime minister after a long strike by union leaders against government incompetence 4 and corruption 5.
President Conte has been in power since a coup 6 in 1984, despite his ailing 7 health.
- Fewer workers are needed to solder circuit boards.焊接电路板需要的工人更少了。
- He cuts the pieces and solders them together.他把那些断片切碎，然后把它们焊在一起。
- The ban was initially opposed by the US.这一禁令首先遭到美国的反对。
- Feathers initially developed from insect scales.羽毛最初由昆虫的翅瓣演化而来。
- the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
- At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后，至少有300名平民下落不明。
- He was dismissed for incompetence. 他因不称职而被解雇。
- She felt she had been made a scapegoat for her boss's incompetence. 她觉得，本是老板无能，但她却成了替罪羊。
- The people asked the government to hit out against corruption and theft.人民要求政府严惩贪污盗窃。
- The old man reviled against corruption.那老人痛斥了贪污舞弊。
- The monarch was ousted by a military coup.那君主被军事政变者废黜了。
- That government was overthrown in a military coup three years ago.那个政府在3年前的军事政变中被推翻。