英国首相安迪·伯纳姆周日呼吁“保持冷静”,当时数千人聚集在北爱尔兰的一个城镇,试图阻止一场有争议的亲英新教游行队伍,28年来首次穿过一个以天主教徒和民族主义者为主的地区。紧张局势在周日凌晨法院裁定允许橙衣会游行继续进行后升级。
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnam urged "calm" Sunday as thousands of people gathered in a Northern Irish town seeking to halt a contentious pro-British Protestant march from passing through a mainly Catholic and nationalist area for the first time in 28 years. The tensions spiked after a court in the early hours of Sunday cleared the march by the Orange Order to go ahead.
北爱尔兰独立监管争议游行的机构“游行委员会”已授权35名橙衣会成员于周日上午8点,在无乐队、无支持者陪同下,沿波塔当的加瓦吉路静默游行。
The Parades Commission, Northern Ireland's independent body regulating contentious processions, had authorised 35 Orangemen to march silently along Garvaghy Road in Portadown, without bands or supporters from 8:00 am Sunday.
伯纳姆呼吁“各方保持冷静”,并在接受英国广播公司(BBC)电视采访时表示,北爱尔兰已取得“巨大进展”,“我们不希望看到局势倒退”。
Burnham appealed for "calm on all sides", adding in an interview with BBC television that that "big gains" had been made in Northern Ireland "and we don't want to see things go backwards".
北爱尔兰因主要为天教徒、亲爱尔兰的共和派与新教徒、亲英的联合派之间的冲突而饱受战乱之苦长达三十年,加瓦吉路在20世纪90年代末成为主要冲突热点。
Northern Ireland was blighted for three decades by conflict between largely Catholic, pro-Irish republicans and Protestant, pro-UK unionists, and the Garvaghy Road became a major flashpoint during the late 1990s.
反抗议活动 约2000人于周日凌晨在波塔当加瓦吉路地区举行反抗议游行,该地距贝尔法斯特西南约25英里,旨在阻止橙衣会游行。
Counter-protest About 2,000 people walked early Sunday in the Garvaghy Road area of Portadown, 25 miles southwest of Belfast, in a counter-protest seeking to prevent the Orange march.
法新社记者看到,现场安保力量部署密集,警方将橙衣会集会拦阻在一座教堂大厅内。
There was a heavy security presence, and police held up the Orange Order rally inside a church hall, an AFP correspondent saw.
北爱尔兰首席部长、爱尔兰共和党新芬党的米歇尔·奥尼尔谴责深夜法院裁定允许游行继续进行。
Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle O'Neill, of the Irish republican Sinn Fein party, condemned the late-night court ruling allowing the march to go ahead.
奥尼尔表示:“我们今晚的信息很明确。绝不后退。明天不,永远不。”
"Our message tonight is clear. There is no going back. Not tomorrow. Not ever," said O'Neill.
她表示支持“加瓦吉路居民抗议这场不受欢迎的宗派游行的权利”。
She said she supported "the right of the Garvaghy Road residents to protest against this unwanted sectarian march".
新芬党主席玛丽·卢·麦克唐纳在与反抗议者同行时对记者表示,“居民和社区走出来,是为了捍卫他们免受宗派骚扰、自由生活的权利”。
Sinn Fein President Mary Lou McDonald told reporters as she walked with the counter-protesters that the "residents and community have come out to defend their right to live free from sectarian harassment".
自1998年《贝尔法斯特协议》(即《耶稣受难日协议》)结束北爱尔兰所谓的“麻烦时期”以来,“取得了很多进展……这是变革性的。人们的生活从根本上发生了改变,”她说,并补充道“我们不会回头”。游行队伍经受住了一系列最后时刻的法律挑战。
Since the 1998 Good Friday peace accords ending the so-called Troubles in Northern Ireland "there has been lots of progress ... it has been transformational. People's lives have been changed fundamentally," she said, adding "we are not going back". The procession had survived a series of last-minute legal challenges.
贝尔法斯特高等法院一名法官周六暂时叫停了游行,警告称这场长期争端可能升级蔓延至整个北爱尔兰,并敦促各方“从悬崖边退回来”。“无需恐惧”但在午夜前不久,由三名法官组成的上诉法院推翻了禁令,裁定该法官“在法律上出现错误”。
A Belfast High Court judge temporarily blocked it on Saturday, warning that the long-running dispute could escalate across Northern Ireland and urging the parties to "step back from the abyss". "Nothing to fear" But shortly before midnight, a three-judge Court of Appeal panel overturned the injunction, ruling that the judge had "erred in law". The substantive legal challenge was returned to the High Court, but the appeal decision left the procession free to begin at 8:00 am on Sunday.
实质性的法律挑战被发回高等法院,但上诉裁定使得游行得以于周日上午8点开始。
The substantive legal challenge was returned to the High Court, but the appeal decision left the procession free to begin at 8:00 am on Sunday.
来自亲英的民主统一党的当地议员卡拉·洛克哈特称此次上诉推翻“影响深远”,并表示居民无需恐惧。
Carla Lockhart, a local MP from the pro-British Democratic Unionist Party, called the appeal overturn "seismic" and said residents had nothing to fear.
“三十五名男子默默走在路上,没有乐队伴奏,秩序井然;没有什么可怕的,”她说。
"Thirty-five men walking down a road silently with no bands in an orderly fashion; there is nothing to fear," she said.
效忠派因脱欧规则撤回对《耶稣受难日协议》的支持 这场对峙被称为“德拉姆克里争端”,因游行队伍前往的教堂而得名,曾在1990年代末成为主要冲突点。试图强行让游行通过,或阻止游行进行,曾反复引发严重骚乱。
Loyalists pull support for Good Friday Agreement over Brexit rules The confrontation, known as the Drumcree dispute after the church attended by the marchers, became a major flashpoint during the late 1990s. Attempts to force the parade through, or prevent it from proceeding, repeatedly triggered serious disorder.
游行委员会成立于1998年,即《耶稣受难日协议》基本结束围绕英国统治持续三十年的“麻烦时期”那一年。
The Parades Commission was established in 1998, the year the Good Friday Agreement largely ended three decades of conflict over British rule known as the Troubles. It barred the Order from completing the route that year and has consistently rejected subsequent applications.
该委员会当年禁止奥兰治教团完成既定路线,并持续驳回后续申请。
The issue was revived in August when the High Court quashed the commission's latest restriction because of procedural failings, without ruling that the Order had a right to march along Garvaghy Road.
该问题在8月重燃,当时高等法院因程序瑕疵撤销了委员会最新的限制令,但未裁定教团有权沿加瓦吉路游行。教团随后提交了新申请,促成了周五允许受限游行的决定。
The issue was revived in August when the High Court quashed the commission's latest restriction because of procedural failings, without ruling that the Order had a right to march along Garvaghy Road. The Order then submitted a fresh application, leading to Friday's decision permitting the restricted procession.
橙衣会是一个亲英组织,其名称源自奥兰治的威廉,这位新教荷兰人在1689年从天主教国王詹姆斯二世手中夺取了英格兰、苏格兰和爱尔兰的王位。
The Orange Order is an pro-British organisation that takes its name from William of Orange, the Protestant Dutchman who seized the English, Scottish and Ireland throne from Catholic King James II in 1689.