尽管冷枪不断，但救援人员仍然留在这一地区。

Aid workers remain in the area despite continuous sniping.

受到惊吓的家庭纷纷将自己反锁在家中，迫使枪手逃上屋顶，其中一人被冷枪打死，另两名引爆了炸药。

Terrified families locked themselves into their homes, forcing the gunmen on to the rooftops, where one was killed by sniper fire and two detonated their explosives.

人们监禁多年却未接受审讯，或是遭受背后冷枪，又或是因坏血病被送去北极林木营等死，这就是所谓的消除不确定因素。

People are imprisoned for years without trial, or shot in the back of the neck or sent to die of scurvy in Arctic lumber camps: this is called elimination of unreliable elements.