见证极权下的苦难

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There in my little office, 在我的小办公室里，

I read hastily scribbled letters 我读着那些匆匆写就的信件，

smuggled out of totalitarian regimes 这些信件是从极权主义政权中偷运出来的，

by men and women who were risking imprisonment to inform the outside world 由那些冒着坐牢风险，只为告知外界的男男女女所为，

of what was happening to them. 关于他们身上发生的一切。

I saw photographs of those 我看到了那些人的照片，

who had disappeared without trace, 他们无影无踪地消失了，

sent to amnesty by their desperate families 这些照片是他们绝望的家人

and friends. 和朋友寄给大赦国际的。

I read the testimony of torture victims 我阅读了酷刑受害者的证词，

and saw pictures of their injuries. 并看到了他们受伤的照片。

I opened handwritten 我打开了手写的

eyewitness accounts 目击者证词，

of summary trials and executions, 关于草率审判和处决，

of kidnappings 关于绑架

and rapes. 和强奸。

Many of my co-workers were ex-political prisoners, people 我的许多同事都是前政治犯，他们是那些人，

who had 他们曾

been displaced from their homes 被迫离开家园，

or fled into exile 或流亡海外，

because they had the temerity to speak against their governments. 因为他们胆敢公开发言反对自己的政府。

Visitors to our offices included those 来我们办公室的访客包括那些人，

who had 他们曾

come to give information 来提供信息，

or to try and find out what had happened to those they had 或者试图了解他们所

left behind. 留下的人的遭遇。

I shall never forget the African torture victim, 我永远不会忘记那位非洲酷刑受害者，

a young man no older than I was at the time, 一个当时年纪不比我大的年轻人，

who had become mentally ill 他变得精神失常，

after all he had endured in his homeland. 在他祖国遭受的一切之后。

He trembled uncontrollably as he spoke into a video camera 当他对着摄像机讲述时，身体无法控制地颤抖，

about the brutality inflicted upon him. 讲述着他所遭受的暴行。

He was a foot taller than I was 他比我高一英尺，

and seemed as fragile as a child. 看起来却像孩子一样脆弱。