
In mid-June, 99 guerrilla(游击队员) fighters were flown by helicopter to a small settlement in a rural area of southern Colombia where they lined up and, one by one(一个接一个地), handed their weapons to government officials: rifles, pistols, machine guns and grenade launcher(榴弹发射器)s.
六月中旬,99名游击队员乘直升机抵达哥伦比亚南部农村的一个小定居点,在那里列队,逐一将武器交给政府官员:步枪、手枪、机枪和榴弹发射器。
They also stripped off their heavy tactical vests, field packs and camouflage uniforms, which were each piled into a bonfire to mark the beginning of a new life away from an armed conflict that has claimed nearly half a million lives in the last six decades.(他们还脱下装备和迷彩服,堆成篝火,标志着远离冲突的新生活开始,该冲突已夺走近五十万人生命。)
他们还脱下沉重的战术背心、野战背包和迷彩服,将这些物品堆成篝火,标志着远离武装冲突的新生活的开始——这场冲突在过去六十年中已夺走近五十万人的生命。
That was precisely(恰恰,精确地) what the former president Gustavo Petro’s “total peace” plan had sought to achieve: negotiating with and disarm(解除武装)ing all of Colombia’s criminal groups, which are estimated to have nearly 30,000 members.
这正是前总统古斯塔沃·佩特罗“全面和平”计划所力求实现的目标:与哥伦比亚所有犯罪集团谈判并解除其武装,这些集团估计拥有近三万名成员。