I don't have time for all the gruesome details of this massacre,

我没时间解析这场屠杀血淋淋的细节
and I'll spare you most of it

我就不说别的了
But it is in some ways an American My Lai Massacre,

它是美国版的"美莱村屠杀"[美军在越战]
a Katyn Forest Massacre--what the Soviets did in 1944 in Poland

"卡廷森林屠杀" 1944年苏联在波兰干的
One of these authors of this new book,

这本新书的作者之一
I think a bit inappropriately, uses the term genocide,

我觉得使用种族灭绝不太恰当
that it was a result of a wish for genocide

它的确是因希望种族灭绝而导致的后果
It is mass murder by any definition

不论如何它都是大屠杀
What happened is that with these two competing governments in Louisiana—

情况是路易斯安那州的两个对立的政府
Democrat Fusion government and the Republican government—

民主党的联盟政府与共和党政府
both would appoint sheriffs in the same parish

会分别向同一个郡县指派治安官
So there was the Republican sheriff, who was black,

结果就有共和党的治安官是黑人