联合国:儿童沦为博科圣地自杀式恐袭武器

The number of children used by Nigeria's Boko Haram to stage suicide bombings has risen more than 10-fold in one of the most "horrific" aspects of the Islamist insurgency, the United Nations said on last Tuesday.

联合国上周二宣布，尼日利亚的伊斯兰极端武装组织“博科圣地”利用儿童发动自杀式爆炸袭击的数量已经增加了10倍。

Experts said the group, which has been weakened by a multinational military offensive, is now trying to spread terror by using children for attacks in crowded markets, mosques and even camps for people fleeing Boko Haram violence.

专家表示，虽然“博科圣地”被多国部队重创，但这一组织现在正在尝试利用儿童在人员聚集的集市、清真寺、甚至难民营内发动自杀式袭击。

This has had disastrous consequences for children, especially girls, who had survived captivity and sexual violence by Boko Haram, said a report by UN children's agency UNICEF.

联合国儿童基金会的一份报告显示，这已经对儿童，特别是对女童来说造成了灾难性的后果。这些女童曾被“博科圣地”囚禁并遭到了性暴力。

"The number of children involved in 'suicide' attacks in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger has risen sharply over the past year, from four in 2014 to 44 in 2015," UNICEF said. "More than 75 percent of the children involved in such attacks are girls."

联合国儿童基金会表示：“在尼日利亚、喀麦隆、乍得和尼日尔，卷入自杀式袭击的儿童数量大幅上升，从2014年的4人增至2015年的44人。”从性别看，卷入自杀式袭击的儿童中，75％为女童。

"Let us be clear: these children are victims, not perpetrators," said Manuel Fontaine, UNICEF regional director for west and central Africa. "Deceiving children and forcing them to carry out deadly acts has been one of the most horrific aspects of the violence in Nigeria and in neighbouring countries."

联合国儿童基金会西非及中非地区的负责人曼纽尔·方丹说： “我们要明确一点：这些孩子是受害者，而不是灾难制造者。欺骗儿童，迫使他们进行致命的行为一直是尼日利亚及其邻国最耸人听闻的暴力行径。”

The report was released two years after Boko Haram kidnapped 276 teenagers in the dead of night from the small town of Chibok in northern Nigeria. A total of 219 students are still missing.

这项报告是在尼日利亚切布克镇276名青少年遭“博科圣地”武装分子绑架事件发生之后两年发布的。截至目前为止，仍有219名学生下落不明。

Last year, children were used in one out of every two attacks in Cameroon, one out of eight in Chad, and one out of seven in Nigeria.

去年，在喀麦隆，二分之一的自杀式炸弹袭击者是儿童，乍得这一数据为八分之一，尼日利亚为七分之一。

An estimated 20,000 people have been killed since Boko Haram launched its campaign of violence in 2009 to carve out a hardline Islamic state in northeast Nigeria.

据估计，自从2009年“博科圣地”在尼日利亚东北部开拓出一条强硬的“伊斯兰国”路线以来，已经有20000人被杀害了。