Anjan Sundaram: Why I risked my life to expose a government massacre
Анджан Сундарам: Почему я рискнул собой, чтобы разоблачить устроенную правительством бойню
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?
изолированы от нас?
to the Central African Republic
в Центральноафриканскую Республику
их местоположение
that were tragic and unreal,
трагичных и поразительных сцен,
the slow preparation of ethnic cleansing.
подготовки к этнической чистке.
насчитывает примерно 5 миллионов человек.
is a country of about five million people
since French colonial rule ended in 1960.
французских колониалистов в 1960 г.
Muslim government,
мусульманским меньшинством,
within communities.
прибытия в страну
of Gaga be abandoned.
маленький город Гага.
as government spies,
правительственными шпионами,
стали небезопасными.
изолированности,
moved into the empty homes.
переместились в опустевшие дома.
when people have left.
когда люди её покидают.
and reached Gaga,
и достигла города Гага,
by the thunder of bombs.
to attack a town sheltering a militia.
укрывшихся в городе.
and tall elephant grass,
слоновой траве,
that I would not hurt them.
и не причиню им вреда.
ran out of the forest.
выбежала из леса.
as I wrote down their question.
записывая их вопрос.
with these people.
like a footnote in world news.
сноской среди потока мировых новостей.
that it was committing any violence,
в творившемся насилии,
government massacres
спровоцированные правительством
comfort of their taste.
навеянного их вкусом.
of plastic wrappers as they fled.
спасаясь бегством.
still operating in the country,
всё ещё работавших в стране,
about the massacres.
о творившихся зверствах.
to feel a sense of normalcy.
of this missing information.
недостатка информации.
militia headquarters,
со стороны медиа или очевидцев,
столь абсурдному изложению событий,
in these camps.
в этих лагерях.
140 000 мусульман,
went unrecorded by witnesses.
мусульман не были зафиксированы кем-либо.
in the Central African Republic,
из Центральноафриканской Республики,
зачем я отправился туда.
in all our communities
люди во всех наших сообществах
to manipulate reality.
of massacred people are still alive,
в той резне всё ещё живы,
of burned homes are still standing.
всё ещё стоят на месте.
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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