Anjan Sundaram: Why I risked my life to expose a government massacre
Anjan Sundaram: Por qué expuse mi vida denunciando un genocidio del gobierno
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?
está aislada de nosotros?
to the Central African Republic
la República Centroafricana
donde ocurrían estos genocidios
habían asesinado o cuándo.
that were tragic and unreal,
the slow preparation of ethnic cleansing.
plan de limpieza étnica.
is a country of about five million people
de alrededor de 5 millones de personas,
since French colonial rule ended in 1960.
la caída de la colonia francesa en 1960.
Muslim government,
minoritario musulmán,
within communities.
dentro de las comunidades.
of Gaga be abandoned.
estaba abandonada.
as government spies,
en espías del gobierno,
humanos era ya inseguro.
moved into the empty homes.
entraban a las casas vacías.
when people have left.
cuando la gente ya no está.
and reached Gaga,
llegando hasta Gaga.
by the thunder of bombs.
to attack a town sheltering a militia.
a las milicias escondidas en la ciudad.
and tall elephant grass,
y el alto pasto elefante.
that I would not hurt them.
y que no lastimaría a nadie.
ran out of the forest.
salió corriendo del bosque.
de los árboles
les gens savent?"
y estaban enfermos,
alimentos ni medicamentos.
as I wrote down their question.
al anotar su pregunta.
with these people.
like a footnote in world news.
no dejaban de hablar de esta guerra.
desarrollar una historia.
that it was committing any violence,
algún acto de violencia.
government massacres
los genocidios del gobierno
comfort of their taste.
of plastic wrappers as they fled.
de plástico mientras huían.
still operating in the country,
que seguían operando en el país,
about the massacres.
de los asesinatos.
to feel a sense of normalcy.
sentirse normal ante esto.
of this missing information.
la falta de información.
militia headquarters,
a un cuartel general abandonado,
cristianos me contaron
aliados con el gobierno.
con animales.
o medios informativos
in these camps.
a capturar a los musulmanes,
went unrecorded by witnesses.
de los asesinatos y fugas musulmanes.
in the Central African Republic,
en la República Centroafricana.
el porqué estuve ahí.
in all our communities
ignorada en nuestras comunidades
to manipulate reality.
manipular la realidad.
of massacred people are still alive,
de personas asesinadas están vivas...
of burned homes are still standing.
quemados siguen ahí.
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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