雙語暢銷書《我是馬拉拉》第15章:離開河谷(6)
My father kept insisting to everyone 'in a few days we will return. Everything will be fine.' But we knew that was not true.
In Mardan there were already big camps of white UNHCR tents like those for Afghan refugees in Peshawar.
馬爾丹已經有好幾個由聯合國難民署（UNHCR）提供的白色帳篷組成的巨型營地，就像那些在白沙瓦提供給阿富汗難民住的一樣。We weren't going to stay in the camps because it was the worst idea ever.
我們不打算住進營地，那不是個好主意。
Almost two million of us were fleeing Swat and you couldn't have fitted two million people in those camps.
有近200萬人逃離了斯瓦特，你不可能把200萬人塞進那些營地裏。Even if there was a tent for us, it was far too hot inside and there was talk that diseases like cholera were spreading.
就算我們真能找到一頂帳篷，那裏面也是悶熱難當。而且據說各種疾病，比如霍亂疫情，已經開始散播。My father said he had heard rumours that some Taliban were even hiding inside the camps and harassing the women.
父親說，他聽到傳言，有些塔利班甚至會躲在帳篷裏，藉機騷擾女性。Those who could, stayed in the homes of local people or with family and friends.
那些有辦法的人會住進當地人的家裏，或者跟親友共住。Amazingly three-quarters of all the IDPs were put up by the people of Mardan and the nearby town of Swabi.
令人驚訝的是，馬爾丹與鄰近小鎮斯瓦比的居民居然收容了3/4的IDPS。They opened the doors of their homes, schools and mosques to the refugees.
面對這些難民，他們打開了住家、學校及清真寺的大門。In our culture women are expected not to mix with men they are not related to.
在我們的文化裏，女性不得跟與她們沒有親戚關係的男人待在一起。In order to protect women's purdah, men in families hosting the refugees even slept away from their own homes.
爲了維護女性的婦德，這些接待難民的家庭裏的男人甚至離開自己的家，去別的地方住宿。They became voluntary IDPs. It was an astonishing example of Pashtun hospitality.
他們成了自願的IDPS。這又是一個關於普什圖人好客傳統的感人事例。We were convinced that if the exodus had been managed by the government many more would have died of hunger and illness.
我們確信，如果這次的大規模移民是由政府主導，會有更多的人死於饑荒和疾病。As we had no relatives in Mardan we were planning to make our way to Shangla, our family village.
因爲我們在馬爾丹沒有親戚，所以決定繼續趕路，前往香拉縣——我們家族的所在地。So far we had driven in the opposite direction, but we had had to take the only lift we could get out of Swat.
到目前爲止，我們走的實際是與香拉縣相反的方向，但我們必須抓住這唯一的搭便車的機會，離開斯瓦特。
