VOA慢速英語(yǔ):Search for Boston Bombers

[00:03.76]From VOA Learning English, [00:06.71]this is IN THE NEWS. [00:09.99]American law enforcement officials this week [00:14.42]looked for suspects in the bombings [00:18.21]at the Boston Marathon. [00:20.75]Three people were killed when two bombs exploded [00:26.67]near the finish line on Monday. [00:30.30]More than 170 others were injured. [00:36.13]On Thursday, federal investigators [00:40.42]released a video tape and pictures [00:44.15]taken around the time of the Boston bombings. [00:49.38]The images showed two young men carrying backpacks. [00:56.49]Officials believe the bombs [00:59.28]were transported in the bags. [01:02.37]On Friday, police identified the suspects [01:07.15]as brothers and ethnic Chechens. [01:12.58]The two were born in Kyrgyzstan [01:16.41]and lived for several years in Dagestan [01:20.80]before coming to the United States as refugees. [01:26.50]The uncle of the brothers spoke to reporters [01:31.88]from his home in the state of Maryland. [01:36.26]He says the brothers' family is Muslim. [01:41.50]He also confirmed their ethnic identity. [01:46.38]The issue of identity is complex. [01:52.05]Aslan Doukaev directs the North Caucasus Service [01:58.57]of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. [02:02.80]He spoke to us from the Czech Republic. [02:07.64]"Yes, I am familiar--I'm myself of Chechen origin [02:13.58]and I know the social structure [02:15.27]and I think I can speak about that. [02:18.22]But if we're going to talk about these two young persons, [02:22.20]they had, they lived all their lives [02:26.58]outside of Chechnya so it's probably, it is probably not, [02:32.95]would be not correct on my part [02:35.14]to speak about them as part of this Chechnya, [02:38.02]Chechen society or Chechen environment. [02:40.51]Mr. Doukaev says the young men [02:44.19]appear to be unlike other terror suspects. [02:49.97]"I'm really personally a little bit baffled and confused [02:53.21]because they do not fit the normal profile of, [02:57.62]you know, North Caucasus terrorists. [03:01.65]They are urban. [03:04.34]They are well educated. [03:06.38]They were probably well integrated in American society. [03:09.82]So they do not fit the profile of people I'm used (to), [03:14.20]as a journalist, to deal with." [03:15.85]Stephanie Nawyn is an assistant professor of Sociology [03:21.27]at Michigan State University. [03:25.25]She has studied refugee resettlement [03:29.73]and social inclusion of both male and female refugees. [03:37.34]She says many refugees can experience [03:42.48]a lack of belonging in a new country. [03:47.11]"Most will tell you that it takes about five to six years, [03:49.75]to feel like they can be part of their communities. [03:53.83]And most refugees actually do get to that point, [03:56.56]where they feel integrated. [03:58.36]But this initial alienation is quite common. [04:01.14]However, it very, very rarely translates [04:05.62]into this kind of anti-social behavior." [04:08.17]She says that when violence takes place, [04:12.70]it is the work of young people [04:16.38]who came to the country as children. [04:20.83]"This almost always happens among men. [04:22.68]And among men who feel like they aren't able [04:28.25]to achieve the kinds of status that they would like [04:31.45]or that they are deserving of [04:33.04]and that is not just a threat to them, [04:37.02]you know, to their sense of what they deserve [04:40.26]based on their class status. [04:42.50]But it is a threat to what they feel they deserve as men." [04:45.38]And that's IN THE NEWS, [04:48.18]written by George Grow and Onka Dekker. [04:52.71]I'm Kelly Jean Kelly.

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