Anjan Sundaram: Why I risked my life to expose a government massacre
آنجان ساندارام: چرا زندگیام را برای برملا کردن یک قتل عام حکومتی به خطر انداختم
TED Fellow Anjan Sundaram has spent the last decade writing about 21st century dictatorships, forgotten conflicts and discrimination around the world – from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Rwanda and India. Full bio
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are isolated from us?
to the Central African Republic
جمهوری آفریقای مرکزی سفر کردم
این قتل عامها را شناسایی کند
that were tragic and unreal,
که دردناک و غیرواقعی بود،
the slow preparation of ethnic cleansing.
is a country of about five million people
با جمعیت ۵ میلیونی
since French colonial rule ended in 1960.
بخاطر سابقه درخشونت معروف است.
Muslim government,
within communities.
of Gaga be abandoned.
as government spies,
moved into the empty homes.
به خانههای خالی میرفتند.
when people have left.
بیشتر در معرض کشته شدن قرار دارید.
and reached Gaga,
by the thunder of bombs.
to attack a town sheltering a militia.
تا به پایگاه شبه نظامیها حمله کنند.
and tall elephant grass,
that I would not hurt them.
و قصد آسیب رساندن ندارم.
ran out of the forest.
"? Est-ce les gens savent"
as I wrote down their question.
احساس ناتوانی میکردم.
with these people.
like a footnote in world news.
در اخبار دنیا محسوب میشد.
that it was committing any violence,
government massacres
comfort of their taste.
با این شیرینیها میخواستند
of plastic wrappers as they fled.
هزاران پوست پلاستیکی به هنگام فرار.
still operating in the country,
باقیمانده در کشور،
about the massacres.
قتلعامها دریافت میکردیم.
to feel a sense of normalcy.
of this missing information.
militia headquarters,
in these camps.
went unrecorded by witnesses.
از سوی شاهدان در آمار ثبت نشدهاند.
در جمهوری آفریقای مرکزی میگویم،
in the Central African Republic,
in all our communities
در تمامی جوامع ما
to manipulate reality.
of massacred people are still alive,
انسان قتل عام شده هنوز زندهاند،
of burned homes are still standing.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Anjan Sundaram - Author, journalistTED Fellow Anjan Sundaram has spent the last decade writing about 21st century dictatorships, forgotten conflicts and discrimination around the world – from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Rwanda and India.
Why you should listen
Anjan Sundaram is the author of Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship (Ingabire prize, PEN America prize finalist, Amazon Best Book of 2016) and Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo (Royal African Society Book of the Year in 2014, BBC Book of the Week). His writing has appeared in Granta, The New York Review of Books, the New York Times, The Guardian and Foreign Policy. His war correspondence won a Frontline Club award in 2015 and a Reuters prize in 2006. Sundaram is a TED Fellow. He graduated from Yale University.
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