遭掳台籍旅客张安薇于菲平安获释

Abducted Taiwanese Tourist Rescued in the Philippines

 

(WSJ, Dec. 20, 2013) —Philippine security forces have rescued a Taiwanese tourist kidnapped by alleged militants last month from a scenic island in eastern Malaysia, Malaysian police said Friday.

马来西亚警方于周五指称，菲律宾安全部队已解救了一名上月在马来西亚东部一座观光岛上被据称是武装分子的人员绑架的台湾游客。

On November 15 the female victim went missing from Pom Pom Island, a popular tourist spot off the eastern state of Sabah. Her male companion was found shot to death in the resort where they were staying.

11月15日，该名女性游客在沙巴州旅游胜地邦邦岛失踪，且她的男性同伴被发现在他们当时停留的度假村内遭枪击身亡。

Malaysia's National Police Chief Khalid Abu Bakar said the victim was rescued in Sulu province in the southern Philippines and has been admitted to a hospital there. She will be flown to Zamboanga City on the island of Mindanao on Saturday.

马来西亚国家警察局局长Khalid提到，被绑架的台湾游客已在菲律宾南部苏禄省被解救，并住进当地一家医院。该游客将于周六乘飞机前往位于棉兰老岛上的三宝颜市。

'We're awaiting further developments from Philippine authorities,' Mr. Khalid said in a statement regarding the case.

Khalid在就该案发布的声明中表示，正在等待菲律宾当局的进一步行动。

Though Malaysian authorities have not yet named the victim, she was identified as Chang An-wei by Taiwanese Foreign Minister David Lin in a news conference last month.

尽管马来西亚方面并无直接指出遭掳者的姓名，但在台湾外交部长林永乐于上个月举行的记者会中所称，她就是张安薇。

Malaysian police say heavily-armed terrorists based in the southern Philippines were responsible for the attack on Pom Pom Island – though they have yet to name a specific group. In recent years the Philippine Islamist group Abu Sayyaf, backed by al-Qaeda, has been involved in a spate of foreign tourist abductions.

虽然还没有指名道姓，马来西亚警方表示，群聚于南菲律宾的重武装恐怖份子，就是在邦邦岛上发动攻击行动者。近年来由基地组织撑腰的菲律宾回教组织阿布萨耶夫，涉及了接二连三的外籍游客绑架案。

In 2000, Abu Sayyaf raised $15 million from kidnapping mainly foreign tourists from the Malaysian resort of Sipadan, near Pom Pom Island, where the latest deadly incident happened. The group became well-known for kidnappings and struck again in May 2001.

西元2000年时，阿布萨耶夫在马来西亚观光胜地西巴丹岛上，掳走了外籍游客并收取了一千五百万美元的赎金，而这座岛就在刚发生过死亡事件的邦邦岛附近。这个组织因掳人勒赎而为人所知并且在2001年五月时又用同样手法狠捞一票。

The incident last month follows a security crisis in Sabah state earlier this year, when a band of around 200 Filipino Muslim insurgents called the Royal Sulu Army invaded a coastal district of Lahad Datu. Dozens of security personnel and intruders died in the February conflict, and Malaysia boosted its security presence around the district in response.

一群两百人左右，自称苏禄皇家军队的菲籍穆斯林暴动份子在本次事件之前，也就是今年稍早的时候也曾引发一次沙巴州的安全危机，他们侵入了拿笃州的海岸区。在那场二月发生的冲突中，有数十位维安人员与入侵者丧生，而马来西亚方面则是以增强该区的维安做为因应。

Several countries, including Taiwan and the UK, issued travel advisory cautioning visits to Sabah following the kidnapping.

包含台湾及英国在内的数个国家，在绑架事件后都发布了沙巴岛该地的旅游警告。