经济学人下载:安瓦尔·冈戈-刽子手之歌(2)

It was all a bit of a lark, until someone tried to ban American films, and the gangsters' business slumped. As he grew older, he moved from cinema tickets into petty smuggling and illegal gambling, and soon he came to the attention of men like Ibrahim Sinik, a newspaper publisher and paramilitary gang boss. Mr Sinik decided who got killed in Medan and who should merely be shaken down for money. He needed protection, and the young film buff was just the guy to provide it.
这一切就是为了好玩，直到有人试图禁止美国电影，然后帮派的生意暴跌。随着年龄增长，安瓦尔从卖电影票转向小规模走私和非法赌博，很快，安瓦尔就吸引到了像易卜拉欣·辛尼克这样的人的注意。易卜拉欣是一位报纸出版商和准军事部队团伙头目。辛尼克决定谁在棉兰被杀，谁应该被勒索钱财。他需要保护，这位年轻的电影迷就是可以提供保护的家伙。

He'd go to a musical film in the afternoon, then sidle across the street—high on show tunes— and hop up the stairs to the roof of Sinik's newspaper office where he changed into jeans or thick trousers and set to work. In the early days, he beat his victims to death. But there was so much blood. Even after it was cleaned up, it still stank. To avoid the mess, he switched to wire. With a wooden slat at either end, it was quick and clean. So many people were killed on that roof terrace, it was known as "the office of blood".
安瓦尔会在下午去看一部音乐电影，然后侧身穿过街道，高唱着曲子，然后跳上楼梯，走到辛尼克报社的屋顶上，他在那里换上牛仔裤或厚裤子开始工作。早期，他会把受害者打死。但是现场会有太多血。即使后来清洁后，那里还是有臭味。为避免这个麻烦，他改用电线来杀人。两端各有一个木板条，做起来非常快速干净。太多人死在那个屋顶平台上，它被称为“血液办公室”。

He is reckoned to have murdered at least 1,000 people with his own hands, and soon had his own gang known as the Frog Squad. When, at last, the killing came to an end in 1968, he moved into organising political muscle, clearing land for illegal logging. And there, in humanity's dark shadows, he might have remained, were it not for the fact that in 2005, exactly 40 years after the genocide began, he met an idealistic young American-born documentary-maker named Joshua Oppenheimer. Thus began the second life of Anwar Congo.
据估计，他用自己的双手谋杀了至少1000人，很快就有了自己的团伙——青蛙小队。最后，杀戮在1968年走向了结束，他开始组织政治力量，为非法伐木清理土地。如果不是在2005年，大屠杀开始40年后，他遇到了一位理想主义的年轻美国纪录片制作人约书亚·奥本海默，他可能会留在那里的人性的黑暗阴影中。于是，安瓦尔·冈戈的第二生命开始了。