Ranar 24 ga watan Agusta ta cika watanni shida tun bayan da Rasha ta kaddamar da yakinta kan Ukraine, inda miliyoyin mutane suka rasa matsugunansu tare da kashe dubunnan fararen hula da sojoji. A wannan rana, 24 ga Agusta, ta yi bikin cika shekaru ɗari na haifuwar mawallafin tarihi Howard Zinn. Zinn marubuci ne, farfesa, kuma mai gwagwarmayar yaƙi. Littafinsa na seminal, A People’s History of the United States, ya bayyana wata mabambanta, ra’ayi na ’yan adawa game da tarihin tarihi na yammacin duniya, daga zuwan Christopher Columbus a 1492 zuwa abin da ake kira “Yaki da Ta’addanci.” Da farko an buga shi a cikin 1980, Tarihin Mutane ya zama daidaitaccen rubutu, tare da kwafi sama da miliyan 2 a buga. Howard Zinn ya mutu a shekara ta 2010, yana da shekaru 87. Kalamansa, fiye da shekaru goma bayan mutuwarsa, har yanzu suna da daraja a ji a cikin duniya da ke fama da yaki, wariyar launin fata da rashin daidaito.
"Yaki yana lalata duk wanda ya shiga ciki," in ji Howard Zinn a cikin wani adireshin 2006 a Madison, Wisconsin. Amurka tana gudanar da manyan yaƙe-yaƙe guda biyu a lokacin, a Iraki da Afganistan, tare da tallafawa rikice-rikicen da ke gudana a wasu wurare. Howard Zinn ya ci gaba da cewa, “Muna da tarihin yaki bayan yaki bayan yaki. Me suka warware? Me suka yi?”
Howard Zinn ya ba da kansa don yin hidima a yakin duniya na biyu, ya zama mai bama-bamai. Ya shiga cikin harin bam na Royan, wani ƙaramin gari kusa da bakin tekun Faransa, a cikin Afrilu, 1945:
"Wannan shi ne 'yan makonni kafin yakin ya ƙare, kuma kowa ya san cewa za a ƙare," in ji Zinn a kan Dimokuradiyya Yanzu! news hour in 2005. "Akwai wata 'yar aljihun sojojin Jamus da ke rataye a kusa da wannan ƙaramin garin Royan da ke gabar tekun Atlantika na Faransa, kuma sojojin sama sun yanke shawarar kai musu bama-bamai - 1,200 manyan bama-bamai, kuma ina cikin ɗaya daga cikinsu, na tashi. a kan wannan ƙaramin garin Royan da napalm - fara amfani da napalm a gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Turai. Ba mu san adadin mutanen da muka kashe ba, mutane nawa ne aka kona sosai sakamakon abin da muka yi. Amma na yi shi, kamar yadda yawancin sojoji suke yi, ba tare da tunani ba, a cikin injina, muna tunanin muna kan daidai, suna kan kuskure, don haka za mu iya yin duk abin da muke so, kuma ba shi da kyau. "
Howard Zinn ya ziyarci wurin shakatawa na bakin tekun Faransa a 1966 don tattaunawa da waɗanda suka tsira. Ya rubuta cikakken tarihin harin da sakamakonsa. "Ya kasance ... babban darasi mai ban sha'awa game da abin da ake kira yaƙe-yaƙe masu kyau."
A cikin jawabin na Zinn na 2006 na Wisconsin, ya bayyana “rabo daban-daban na mutuwar fararen hula da sojoji a yaƙi… a Yaƙin Duniya na ɗaya, sojoji 10 sun mutu ga farar hula ɗaya da ya mutu; a yakin duniya na biyu, shi ne 50-50, rabin soja, rabin farar hula; a Vietnam, kashi 70% na farar hula ne da kuma kashi 30% na soja; kuma a cikin yaƙe-yaƙe tun daga lokacin, kashi 80% da 85% farar hula ne."
Howard Zinn ya koyar a Spelman, wata kwalejin mata ta Baƙar fata a tarihi a Atlanta, a lokacin haɓakar ƙungiyoyin yancin ɗan adam. Daga cikin dalibansa akwai marubuci Alice Walker da wanda ya kafa Asusun Tsaron Yara Marian Wright Edelman. Zinn yayi bayani akan Dimokuradiyya Yanzu !, "A Spelman, na shiga tare da ɗalibaina a cikin ayyukan da ke gudana a Kudu, zama-ins, zanga-zangar, layukan zaɓe." Haɗin kai ya sa aka kore shi. A cikin 2005, an gayyaci Farfesa Zinn zuwa Spelman don gabatar da adireshin farawa.
Howard Zinn ya zama fitaccen dan adawar yakin Vietnam. A cikin 1968, shi da limamin fafutuka Uba Daniel Berrigan sun tashi zuwa Arewacin Vietnam, suna daidaita sakin fursunonin yaƙin Amurka na farko da aka yi a can. Lokacin da fitaccen mai ba da labari Dan Ellsberg ya saki Takardun Pentagon, tarihin sirrin gwamnatin Amurka game da shigarta a Vietnam, Howard Zinn da marigayiyar matarsa Roz sun boye kwafin takardun a gidansu. Sadaukar da kai ga zaman lafiya da gwagwarmayar yaki da yaki ya ci gaba da yin kasala a tsawon rayuwarsa.
Ranar 24 ga watan Agusta, ban da zagayowar ranar haihuwar Zinn, ita ce kuma ranar da Ukraine ta ke bikin 'yancin kai daga Tarayyar Soviet. A bana, an hana bukukuwan samun 'yancin kai a duk fadin Ukraine saboda fargabar hare-haren Rasha. Rasha ta kai hari a tashar jirgin kasa a wannan rana, a kauyen Chaplyne da ke gabashin Ukraine, inda aka kashe akalla mutane 25, ciki har da yara. A wannan rana, shugaba Joe Biden ya sanar da karin dala biliyan 3 na taimakon soja ga Ukraine, wanda ya kawo jimillar tallafin da Amurka ke baiwa Ukraine tun bayan hawan Biden zuwa dala biliyan 13.5.
Howard Zinn baya nan don yin Allah wadai da wannan yaki, ko kuma wasu daga cikin sauran da ake yi yanzu. Amma ta hanyar misalinsa, gwagwarmayarsa, da kuma dacewa da rubuce-rubucensa, za mu iya yin, a kan shekaru ɗari na haihuwarsa, don sake maimaita ɗayan saƙonsa na tsakiya: yakin ba shine amsar rikici a karni na 21st ba.
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