Anjan Sundaram: Why I risked my life to expose a government massacre
Andžans Sundarams: Kāpēc es riskēju ar dzīvību, lai atklātu valdības slaktiņu?
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?
nošķirti no mums?
to the Central African Republic
uz Centrālāfrikas Republiku,
parādīt šo slaktiņu vietas
that were tragic and unreal,
kas bija traģiski un nereāli,
the slow preparation of ethnic cleansing.
etniskajai tīrīšanai.
is a country of about five million people
ir ap pieciem miljoniem iedzīvotāju,
since French colonial rule ended in 1960.
franču koloniālā pārvaldība.
Muslim government,
minoritātes valdību,
galvenokārt kristiešu, grupējumu
within communities.
of Gaga be abandoned.
pamesta Gāgas pilsētiņa.
as government spies,
bija kļuvusi nedroša.
moved into the empty homes.
pārņem tukšās mājas.
when people have left.
pēc tā, ka cilvēki tās pametuši.
and reached Gaga,
un sasniedza Gāgu,
by the thunder of bombs.
to attack a town sheltering a militia.
bija radušas bruņotās grupas.
and tall elephant grass,
un cauri garai ziloņzālei,
that I would not hurt them.
ka nedarīšu viņiem pāri.
ran out of the forest.
vēl citi un jautāja:
as I wrote down their question.
jutos bezpalīdzīgs.
with these people.
like a footnote in world news.
kā sīka piezīme pasaules ziņās.
tiek rakstīta vēsture.
that it was committing any violence,
braucu cauri pilsētām,
government massacres
valdības slaktiņus,
comfort of their taste.
pazīstamo mierinājumu.
of plastic wrappers as they fled.
tūkstošiem plastmasas ietinamo.
still operating in the country,
kas valstī vēl darbojās,
about the massacres.
informācijas par slaktiņiem.
to feel a sense of normalcy.
it kā viss būtu normāli.
of this missing information.
trūkuma ietekmi.
es lēni un piesardzīgi iebraucu
militia headquarters,
vai plašsaziņas līdzekļiem,
šim absurdajam stāstam,
in these camps.
kļuva par vienīgo stāstu.
gandrīz 140 000 musulmaņu.
went unrecorded by witnesses.
un bēgšanas notika bez lieciniekiem.
in the Central African Republic,
Centrālāfrikas reportāžām,
kāpēc turp devos.
in all our communities
visās kopienās
to manipulate reality.
of massacred people are still alive,
noslaktēto joprojām ir dzīvi,
of burned homes are still standing.
joprojām ir savās vietās.
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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