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.
這一切就是為了好玩，直到有人試圖禁止美國(guó)電影，然后幫派的生意暴跌。隨著年齡增長(zhǎng)，安瓦爾從賣電影票轉(zhuǎn)向小規(guī)模走私和非法賭博，很快，安瓦爾就吸引到了像易卜拉欣·辛尼克這樣的人的注意。易卜拉欣是一位報(bào)紙出版商和準(zhǔn)軍事部隊(duì)團(tuán)伙頭目。辛尼克決定誰(shuí)在棉蘭被殺，誰(shuí)應(yīng)該被勒索錢財(cái)。他需要保護(hù)，這位年輕的電影迷就是可以提供保護(hù)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".
安瓦爾會(huì)在下午去看一部音樂(lè)電影，然后側(cè)身穿過(guò)街道，高唱著曲子，然后跳上樓梯，走到辛尼克報(bào)社的屋頂上，他在那里換上牛仔褲或厚褲子開(kāi)始工作。早期，他會(huì)把受害者打死。但是現(xiàn)場(chǎng)會(huì)有太多血。即使后來(lái)清潔后，那里還是有臭味。為避免這個(gè)麻煩，他改用電線來(lái)殺人。兩端各有一個(gè)木板條，做起來(lái)非常快速干凈。太多人死在那個(gè)屋頂平臺(tái)上，它被稱為“血液辦公室”。
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.
據(jù)估計(jì)，他用自己的雙手謀殺了至少1000人，很快就有了自己的團(tuán)伙——青蛙小隊(duì)。最后，殺戮在1968年走向了結(jié)束，他開(kāi)始組織政治力量，為非法伐木清理土地。如果不是在2005年，大屠殺開(kāi)始40年后，他遇到了一位理想主義的年輕美國(guó)紀(jì)錄片制作人約書亞·奧本海默，他可能會(huì)留在那里的人性的黑暗陰影中。于是，安瓦爾·岡戈的第二生命開(kāi)始了。
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