CNN News: 羅馬教皇首訪緬甸時(shí)機(jī)微妙

We have a lot to tell you about in the next 10 minutes, starting with the papal visit to the Southeast Asian country of Myanmar, also known as Burma.

在接下來(lái)的十分鐘新聞，更多消息等你來(lái)聽。首先從教皇訪問(wèn)中東國(guó)家緬甸開始。

Yesterday, Pope Francis, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, became the first pope to visit Myanmar. His three-day stay there will be immediately followed by a trip to neighboring Bangladesh. Both of those countries are involved in the plight of the Rohingya.

昨日，方濟(jì)各，羅馬天主教堂的負(fù)責(zé)人，成為首位訪問(wèn)緬甸的教皇。為期三天的旅程結(jié)束后會(huì)立刻訪問(wèn)周邊的孟加拉國(guó)。

This is a Muslim group that`s a minority in Myanmar. The country has a population of more than 55 million, most of them Buddhist, fewer than a million people there are Rohingya. Most of them live in a Western state of Myanmar that partly borders Bangladesh, and more than 623,000 Rohingya have crossed that border into Bangladesh.

這是一個(gè)在緬甸占少數(shù)的穆斯林群體。這個(gè)國(guó)家的人口超過(guò)5500萬(wàn)，多數(shù)是佛教徒，只有不到100萬(wàn)的羅辛亞人。他們中的大多數(shù)人生活在一個(gè)與孟加拉國(guó)接壤的西部省份，有超過(guò)62.3萬(wàn)羅辛亞人越過(guò)邊境進(jìn)入孟加拉國(guó)。

Why?

為什么呢?

The United States, the United Kingdom and the United Nations all accused Myanmar`s military of ethnic cleansing, using violence to rid the country of the Rohingya, Myanmar`s leaders have denied doing this, saying they`re not targeting civilians but instead terrorist who`ve attacked the military.

美國(guó)、英國(guó)和聯(lián)合國(guó)都指責(zé)緬甸軍方進(jìn)行種族清洗，利用暴力來(lái)清除羅辛亞人。緬甸領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人否認(rèn)這一做法，稱他們不是針對(duì)平民，而是針對(duì)襲擊軍方的恐怖分子。

So, this is one of the issues that`s foremost on the pope`s mind as he stays in Myanmar. In the past, he`s called the Rohingya his persecuted brothers and sisters who are being, quote, tortured and killed. But because Myanmar`s leaders deny that and see the Rohingya as belonging to Bangladesh anyway, experts say the pope will have to discuss the situation very carefully to avoid offending his hosts.

這是教皇對(duì)緬甸進(jìn)行訪問(wèn)的重要行程之一。過(guò)去，教皇稱羅辛亞人是被迫害的兄弟姐妹，引用“正在遭受蹂躪和殺戮。”不過(guò)，由于緬甸領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人否認(rèn)了這一點(diǎn)，并認(rèn)為羅辛亞人屬于孟加拉國(guó)，因此，專家表示，教皇必須非常謹(jǐn)慎地討論這一情況，以免冒犯東道主。