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Another translation example: 'War Has Changed Its Face. WAR has always been brutal.'

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战争改头换面。战争向来是残酷的，军人饱经磨难，平民备尝艰苦。可是，近年来，战争已改头换面了。怎样改头换面呢？今天的战争主要是内战，就是国内党派之间的斗争。跟国与国的战争相比，内战通常旷日持久，而且对国家和人民所造成的伤害尤其严重。西班牙历史学家胡利安•卡萨诺瓦指出：“内战既血腥，又残酷，导致数以万计的人丧生，无数妇女遭人强暴；盈千累万的人被迫逃离家园，甚至面对种族灭绝。”没错，邻里间互相攻伐，所造成的创伤经久难愈。相对来说，冷战结束以来，国际间只爆发了零星的战事。斯德哥尔摩国际和平研究所报道：“从1990到2000年，国与国间只爆发了三场主要战事，其余的都是国内冲突。” 诚然，国内冲突看来没有对外战争的威胁那么大，国际新闻也大多没有报道。不过，国内冲突所带来的痛苦和破坏，却同样严重。千百万人在国内冲突中丧生。事实上，过去二十年，仅在三个饱受战火蹂躏的国家——阿富汗、刚果民主共和国和苏丹，就有差不多五百万人死于内战。在巴尔干半岛，激烈的种族仇杀造成二十五万人死亡。在哥伦比亚，国内的长期游击战也导致十万人被杀。不但如此，内战祸及儿童，它的残酷可想而知。联合国难民事务高级专员说，过去十年间，有二百多万儿童死于内战。六百万儿童受伤。越来越多儿童受训成为童兵。一个童兵说：“他们训练我，给我手枪。我服用兴奋剂，杀戮平民，杀了很多。这是战争嘛，我只是服从命令。我知道这样做不好，我也不想。” 许多儿童在内乱频仍的国家中长大，从没尝过和平的滋味。他们从未受过教育，因为学校都被摧毁；也不懂得跟别人沟通，因为他们的对话方式就是互相驳火。十四岁的杜尼娅说：“这么多人被杀……再也听不到鸟儿歌唱，只听见孩童因失去亲者而啼哭。”

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English translation:

War Has Changed Its Face. WAR has always been brutal. It has always ruined the lives of soldiers and has always brought suffering to civilians. But in recent years, war has changed its face. In what way? Today’s wars are mainly civil wars—wars between opposing groups of citizens of the same country. And civil wars often last longer, leave the population more traumatized, and destroy countries more thoroughly than wars fought between nations. "Civil wars are cruel, bloody operations that result in thousands of deaths, sexual assaults, forced exile and, in the most extreme cases, genocide," notes Spanish historian Julián Casanova. Indeed, when atrocities are committed by neighbor against neighbor, the wounds may take centuries to heal. Since the end of the Cold War, relatively few wars have been fought between national armies. "All but three of the major armed conflicts registered for 1990-2000 were internal," reports the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Granted, internal conflicts may seem less threatening and may be largely ignored by the international media, but the pain and destruction caused by such hostilities are devastating all the same. Millions of people have died in internal conflicts. In fact, during the last two decades, nearly five million people lost their lives in just three war-torn countries—Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Sudan. In the Balkans, fierce ethnic fighting cost the lives of almost 250,000 people, and prolonged guerrilla warfare in Colombia has left 100,000 dead. Nowhere is the brutality of civil war more evident than in its effect on children. During the last decade, over two million children lost their lives in civil conflicts, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Another six million were wounded. A growing number of children have been turned into soldiers. Says one child soldier: "They gave me training. They gave me a gun. I took drugs. I killed civilians. Lots. It was just war . . . I only took orders. I knew it was bad. It was not my wish." Many children in countries where civil war has become a way of life are growing up without ever having known peace. They live in a world where schools have been destroyed and where dialogue takes place through the mouths of guns. Says 14-year-old Dunja: "So many people have been killed . . . No longer can you hear the singing of the birds, only the sound of the children crying for a lost mother or father, a brother or a sister."

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