贝尔法斯特，9月25日——周五，北爱尔兰当局首次允许曾经最具争议的新教游行队伍通过一个天主教社区。这一变化发生在该游行路线于1998年被禁止之后。
BELFAST, Sept 25 - Authorities in Northern Ireland on Friday allowed what was once the most contentious Protestant parade of the annual marching season to pass through a Catholic area for the first time since the route was banned in 1998.
北爱尔兰的游行管理委员会（该委员会旨在规范该地区宗教冲突期间的游行活动）批准了“奥兰治秩序”组织在周日的年度游行活动中沿着加尔瓦吉路（Garvaghy Road）行进。加尔瓦吉路位于以新教徒为主的波塔当（Portadown）镇内，属于一个天主教聚居区。
Northern Ireland's Parades Commission - set up to regulate marches during the province's sectarian conflict - permitted the Orange Order to march along the Garvaghy Road, a Catholic enclave in the largely Protestant town of Portadown, during their annual Drumcree parade on Sunday.
委员会表示，他们将对游行活动施加一些限制，包括游行规模、时间安排和音乐使用等方面，但不会改变游行路线。
It said it would impose conditions on the parade, including its size, timing and music, but not the route. The dispute over the route became one of the defining flashpoints of the conflict in Northern Ireland.
这条路线的争议曾是北爱尔兰冲突的核心焦点之一。多年来，新教“奥兰治秩序”组织每年试图通过该地区，都引发了整个英国统治区域的动荡；直到1998年，这条路线才被正式禁止。同年，《耶稣受难日协议》（Good Friday Agreement）的签署结束了长达三十年的暴力冲突。
Annual attempts by the Protestant Orange Order to march through the area triggered unrest across the British-run region before the route was banned in 1998, the same year the Good Friday Agreement largely ended the three decades of violence known as the "Troubles".
然而，由于程序上的错误，委员会今年限制游行的决定在八月份被高等法院撤销。提出这一诉讼的“奥兰治秩序”组织随后重新申请，并于9月27日组织了一场规模缩小的游行活动。
The Commission's decision to restrict this year's parade was quashed by the High Court in August over a procedural error. The Orange Order, which lodged the court challenge, then re-applied to hold a scaled-back march on September 27. Politicians from the main pro-British unionist parties backed calls for the Garvaghy Road route to be reinstated, arguing it formed part of the parade's traditional path and reflected their British heritage.
支持英国统一主义的主要政党成员呼吁恢复加尔瓦吉路的通行权限，认为这条路线是游行活动的传统路线，也体现了该地区的英国传统。
Politicians from the main pro-British unionist parties backed calls for the Garvaghy Road route to be reinstated, arguing it formed part of the parade's traditional path and reflected their British heritage.
本周，加尔瓦吉路的居民在多次会议上向委员会表示反对，要求禁止游行队伍经过他们的住宅区。他们以及爱尔兰民族主义政界人士都认为，这场争议早在三十年前就已经得到了解决。
Garvaghy Road residents appealed to the Commission during a series of meetings this week not to allow the parade to pass their homes and both they and Irish nationalist politicians have said the dispute was settled almost three decades ago.
1998年最初实施的禁令需要大规模的安全保障措施：数百名英国士兵在田间设置了数千米的铁丝网，并挖掘了一条长沟（后来部分被注水）作为屏障，以防止新教游行者进入天主教社区。
The original ban in 1998 required a large security operation. Hundreds of British troops criss-crossed fields with thousands of metres of razor wire and dug a long ditch that was later partially filled with water to act as a moat to keep the Protestant marchers away from the Catholic enclave.
那一年的对峙引发了效忠派与警方几乎每晚的冲突。直到一场燃烧弹袭击导致三名男童在一户天主教家庭中丧生，暴力才告终结。
A standoff that year sparked nightly clashes between loyalists and police. The violence only ended when three young boys were killed in a firebomb attack on a Catholic home.
“鼓栗游行”期间，游行者身着传统的丝质橙色腰带、黑色圆顶礼帽，手持英国国旗。自2000年代初以来，在禁令依然生效的情况下，该游行一直相对平静地进行。
The Drumcree parade, during which marchers wear traditional silk orange sashes, black bowler hats and carry British flags, has passed off peacefully since the early 2000s with the ban remaining in place.
奥兰治教团表示，将有60名成员在没有乐队伴随的情况下沿加瓦吉路行进，而非以往规模更大的队伍。
The Orange Order has said 60 members will walk along the Garvaghy Road unaccompanied by a marching band, rather than its usual larger group.