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【原文标题】China mountainside holds untold number of quake dead
【译文标题】中国一处山腰掩埋大量地震死难者，具体人数未知
【来源地址】http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-china-massgrave19-2009apr19,0,4645103.story【译者】aha
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中国一处山腰掩埋大量地震死难者，具体人数未知
数千人被埋在英雄山的这座土丘下，如今成为地震死难者的纪念公墓。
中国Hanwang的一处集体掩埋点（即俗称的“万人坑”，我尽量避免这个词——译者注），2008年五月地震以后，不得不在炎热潮湿的情况下迅速掩埋尸体。据信大约有2000至8000名遇难者遗体埋葬于此。
By Barbara Demick
April 19, 2009
中国Hanwang报道-这座椭圆形的土丘接近一个足球场大小，已足够被卫星图片捕捉，看上去就像一个土制的飞碟（UFO 不明飞行物）不知何故降落在这座山边。
据信大约有2000至8000名遇难者遗体被埋在这里，埋在水泥混凝土底下。这里可能是中国最大的一处集体掩埋点之一。
5.12地震之后，天气炎热潮湿，救援人员挖出成千上万具尸体，没有时间为死者举办仪式。太平间已经塞满，道路不通，供电中断，无法运输或冷藏尸体，他们只能迅速掩埋。
中国军队用卡车将成千上万具尸体运往英雄山（因附近的一座烈士公墓得名）的一侧，就地掩埋。
附近的居民说掩埋是在夜间进行的，所以几乎没人知道准确的掩埋人数。
“我们认为可能有8000人，但我们不知道他们每个人的身份，以后也很难查清楚。”工程项目的领班（工头）Zhu Shuicheng说。
Hanwang市正在此地修一座停车场，并拓宽了马路，将这个土丘建成一座正式的纪念公墓。
“我们希望表达对死者精神的尊重，同时安慰活着的人，”负责建设费用的Dongqi汽车公司的发言人Wan Young说。该公司在附近有一个工厂，许多工人和家属在地震（7.9级）中死亡。另一位发言人认为大约有2000具尸体埋在那里，其中大约600名是公司的员工。
这座土丘约83米宽，边缘处修建了混凝土墙。尽管很多家庭不能确定他们所爱的人就埋在这里，他们还是在四月六日（传统扫墓节日）来到此地祭奠，烧香，并为死者留下鲜花和苹果。
China mountainside holds untold number of quake dead
A mass grave in Hanwang, China, had to be created quickly in the hot, humid days after the May 2008 earthquake. Anywhere from 2,000 to 8,000 bodies are believed to lie within.
By Barbara Demick
April 19, 2009
Reporting from Hanwang, China -- Nearly the size of a football field, the oval mound is big enough to show up in satellite photos, looking like an earthen UFO that somehow landed on the side of the mountain.
Anywhere from 2,000 to 8,000 bodies are believed to lie within, buried under layers of lime and concrete in what might be one of the largest mass graves in China.
In the hot, humid days that followed the May 12 earthquake, rescue workers digging out thousands of bodies had little time for the rituals that normally accompany death. With morgues overloaded, roads closed and electricity out, there was no way to transport or refrigerate bodies. They had to be buried quickly.
The Chinese military took the corpses in trucks by the thousands, burying them on the side of this peak known as Hero Mountain, after a military cemetery nearby.
People who live nearby said the burials took place at night, so few know exactly how many are interred there.
"We think it might be 8,000 people, but we don't know who all of them are and it will be difficult to ever find out," said Zhu Shuicheng, the foreman of a construction crew at the site.
The Hanwang municipality is building a parking lot and widening roads to turn the mound into a proper memorial.
"We want something that shows respect to the spirits who passed away and comforts those who are living," said Wan Young, a spokesman for auto company Dongqi, which is paying for the construction. The company operated a factory nearby and lost many workers and family members in the magnitude 7.9 earthquake. Another spokesman said he thought about 2,000 bodies were buried there, about 600 of them company employees.
The earthen oval stretches about 83 yards and is rimmed by a concrete wall. Although many families don't know for sure that their loved ones are buried there, they nevertheless came to pay tribute April 6, a traditional holiday for sweeping tombs, leaving behind flowers, apples and sticks of incense in respect for the dead.
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