Anjan Sundaram: Why I risked my life to expose a government massacre
Anjan Sundaram: Varför riskerade jag mitt liv för att avslöja en regeringsmassaker?
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?
är isolerade från oss?
to the Central African Republic
till Centralafrikanska republiken
som blev mördad eller när.
that were tragic and unreal,
och overkliga scener
the slow preparation of ethnic cleansing.
till etnisk rensning.
is a country of about five million people
har cirka 5 miljoner invånare,
since French colonial rule ended in 1960.
upphörde 1960 varit drabbat av våld.
Muslim government,
minoritetsregeringen,
på den förestående rensningen
within communities.
of Gaga be abandoned.
as government spies,
för regeringen;
hade blivit osäkra.
moved into the empty homes.
flyttade in i de tomma husen.
when people have left.
är extra farliga.
and reached Gaga,
och nådde Gaga,
by the thunder of bombs.
av ljudet från bomber.
to attack a town sheltering a militia.
där en milis sökt skydd.
and tall elephant grass,
och högt elefantgräs,
that I would not hurt them.
och att jag inte ville skada någon.
ran out of the forest.
kom rusande ur skogen.
as I wrote down their question.
när jag skrev ner deras fråga,
with these people.
med dessa människor.
like a footnote in world news.
som en fotnot på världsnyheterna.
that it was committing any violence,
government massacres
comfort of their taste.
genom den välkända smaken.
of plastic wrappers as they fled.
av plastomslag då de flydde.
still operating in the country,
som fortfarande var igång i landet
about the massacres.
om massakrerna.
to feel a sense of normalcy.
en känsla av normalitet.
of this missing information.
av denna avsaknade information.
militia headquarters,
denna absurda berättelse,
in these camps.
went unrecorded by witnesses.
rapporterades aldrig.
in the Central African Republic,
från Centralafrikanska republiken,
varför jag åkte dit
in all our communities
to manipulate reality.
att manipulera verkligheten.
of massacred people are still alive,
av massakrerade människor
of burned homes are still standing.
fortfarande står kvar.
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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