標題: Trump Cancels U.S. Report on Civilian Deaths in Drone Strikes
(川普取消無人機攻擊致平民傷亡的報告)
新聞來源: (須有正確連結)
Bloomberg https://goo.gl/DvCxJq
President Donald Trump revoked a requirement that U.S. intelligence officials
publicly report the number of civilians killed in drone strikes and other
attacks on terrorist targets outside war zones.
(川普總統撤銷了一項要求，即美國情報官員公開報告無人機襲擊中遇難的平民人數和其
它對戰區以外恐怖份子目標的攻擊。)
Trump formally ended the requirement with an executive order on Wednesday,
months after signaling such a move. The administration last year ignored a
May deadline for an annual accounting of civilian and enemy casualties
required under an order signed in 2016 by then-President Barack Obama. The
order was part of an accountability effort to minimize civilian deaths from
drone strikes.
(週三，川普在預告後幾個月正式結束了行政命令。美國政府去年無視了提出關於平民和
敵人傷亡的年度報告的截止日期，即便該報告是根據當時的總統歐巴馬在2016年簽署的命
令要求。該命令是問責的一部分，旨在盡量減少無人機襲擊造成的平民死亡。)
U.S. drone strikes are a long-standing grievance in many Middle Eastern
countries and a recurring propaganda theme of Islamist extremists. Human
rights groups also have criticized the U.S. for conducting drone strikes
without sufficient regard for civilians.
(美國的無人機襲擊造成許多中東國家長期以來的不滿，也是伊斯蘭極端分子反復宣傳的
主題。人權組織還批評美國在沒有充分考慮平民的情況下進行無人機襲擊。)
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, a California Democrat,
called Trump’s move “a troubling retreat from transparency.” He said in a
statement that he’ll seek to reimpose the intelligence community’s
reporting on civilian casualties through a provision in this year’s
Intelligence Authorization Act.
(眾議院情報委員會主席，加州民主黨人Adam Schiff稱，川普的行動是“令人不安的透明
度倒退。”他在一份聲明中表示，他將通過今年的情報授權法案中的一項規定，重新啟動
情報界關於平民傷亡的報導。)
A law Congress passed last year requires the Defense Department to provide
Congress a report of civilian casualties, though parts of it may be
classified. Trump’s action effectively removes casualties from any drone
strikes by the CIA or other agencies outside the military from the reporting
requirements.
去年通過的一項法律要求國防部向國會提供平民傷亡報告，但部分報告可能會被列為機密
。川普的行動免除了中央情報局或軍方以外其他機構報告由無人機襲擊造成的傷亡。
Ned Price, a former intelligence analyst and Obama-era spokesman for the
National Security Council who is now affiliated with the National Security
Action policy advocacy group, said Trump’s move is "a shortsighted decision
that will allow our enemies to be more effective at what they’ve long sought
to do."
(Ned Price是一名前情報分析師和歐巴馬時代的國家安全委員會發言人，他現在隸屬於國
家安全行動政策倡導組織。他說，川普的舉動是“一個短視的決定，讓我們的敵人在他們
的長期以來一直想做的事上更有成效。”)
Price said Obama’s order "allowed the United States to counter with facts
and figures the misinformation and disinformation that terrorist groups and
others issued to undermine our counter-terrorism operations around the globe."
(Price說，歐巴馬的命令“允許美國用事實來反駁，並指出恐怖組織和其他組織以破壞我
們在全球的反恐行動為目的而發布的錯誤信息和虛假信息。”)
The White House National Security Council said in a statement that Trump’s
order removes “superfluous reporting requirements” that “distract our
intelligence professionals from their primary mission.”
(白宮國家安全委員會在一份聲明中表示，川普的命令消除了“多餘的報導要求”，“因
為那使我們的情報專業人員在主要任務上分心。”)
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補充有關美國無人機襲擊的統計 (來自 The Bureau of Investigative Journalism )
https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/projects/drone-war
自2004年以來
最少的已確認襲擊數 : 6,786
總死亡人數：8,459 - 12,105
平民死亡人數：769 - 1,725
兒童死亡人數：253 - 397
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