Watan bayan hukuncin da aka yanke wa tsohon Klansmen Bobby Frank Cherry kan harin bam a cocin Baptist na 16th Street a Birmingham a 1963 wanda ya kashe 'yan mata bakar fata hudu, mai gabatar da kara na Mississippi Ronnie Harper ya sanar da cewa zai sake bude shari'ar Charles Moore da Henry Dee. An yi garkuwa da daliban kwalejin bakaken fata guda biyu, aka yi musu mugun duka, aka jefa su cikin kogi a cikin 1964 da wadanda ake zargin masu kisan Klan ne. A kallo na farko, hukuncin Cherry da sake buɗe wannan shari'ar alama ce ta tabbatar da cewa sabon nau'in fararen fata, matasa, DA's na banza a Kudu sun kuduri aniyar kushe masu aikata laifukan launin fata.
Babu shakka sun ci wasu fitattun nasarori. Masu gabatar da kara na Jiha a Mississippi sun tuhumi Byron de la Beckwith a cikin 1994 saboda kisan gillar 1963 na shugaban kare hakkin jama'a, Medgar Evers, da tsohon Klan Imperial Wizard Sam Bowers a 1998 don kisan 1965-firebomb na Mississippi NAACP jami'in Vernon Dahmer. Shekaru da yawa 'yan uwan mutanen da aka kashe suna matsa wa masu gabatar da kara su gabatar da kara a kan wadanda suka kashe. Brotheran’uwan Moore, wani jami’in Soja mai ritaya, ya tura tare da tunzura jami’an Mississippi don sake buɗe shari’arsa. Masu shigar da kara na Kudancin kasar sun ce za su yi tunanin sake bude wasu tsoffin kararrakin kisan-kiyashi na kabilanci. Amma ko da a ƙarshe sun kawo wasu daga cikin masu kisan gilla a gaban shari'a, har yanzu akwai sauran kashe-kashen launin fata da yawa waɗanda ke kururuwa don gyara. Waɗannan su ne wasu ƙarin kashe-kashen kabilanci waɗanda waɗanda ake zargi da kashe kisa na iya kasancewa a raye.
1959, gungun fararen fata masu dauke da makamai sun kama Mack Charles Parker daga kurkukun Mississippi. An zargi Parker da yiwa wata farar fata fyade. Kwanaki goma bayan haka an tsinke gawar Parker daga wani kogi a Louisiana. A cikin makonni uku da kisan, jami'an FBI sun gano wadanda suka kashe shi. Suna da kwakkwarar shaida da ke nuna cewa masu kisan gilla sun ketare layin jihar, kuma jami’an tsaro sun hada baki da wadanda suka kashe. Ba a taɓa kawo tuhumar jiha ko tarayya ba.
A shekara ta 1961, wani farar fata wakilin jihar Mississippi ya kashe Herbert Lee, ma'aikacin NAACP, akan wata babbar hanya a lokacin da ake takaddama a kan hanya. Ba shi da makami. Ba a taɓa kawo tuhumar jiha ko tarayya ba.
A cikin 1965, Jimmy Lee Jackson, wani baƙar fata limamin coci wani sojan jihar Alabama ya bindige shi bayan wata zanga-zangar 'yancin jefa ƙuri'a a Marion, Alabama. Shaidun gani da ido sun nace cewa Jackson ba shi da makami kuma bai yi wa jami’in barazana ba. Ba a taɓa kawo tuhumar jiha ko tarayya ba. Har ila yau, a cewar rahotanni na FBI, White Knights na Ku Klux Klan, wata tawagar ta'addanci a Mississippi, sun aikata kisan kai guda tara tsakanin 1960 zuwa 1965. A kusan dukkanin lokuta, jami'an FBI sun gano ainihin wadanda ake zargi da kisan kai ta hanyar Klan. masu ba da labari, ko kuma mazan da kansu suke takama da kashe-kashen. Kokarin da aka yi kawai don gurfanar da su a gaban shari'a. Moore da Dee misali ne na littafin karatu na wannan rashin kulawar doka. A cikin 'yan kwanaki bayan kisan nasu, FBI ta gano wasu manyan mutane biyu da ake zargi da kisan su. Ko da yake an kama su, an yi watsi da tuhumar da sauri. Masu gabatar da kara sun yi ikirarin rashin isassun shaidun da za a gurfanar da su a gaban kuliya kuma ba zai yi yuwuwa a samu alkalan farar fata ba don hukunta su.
Moore, Dee da sauran wadanda abin ya shafa ba 'yan ta'addar Klan ne kadai ke fama da su ba, da masu adawa da sheriffs, da jami'an jaha, amma kuma na gwamnatin tarayya mai nuna halin ko-in-kula. Shugabanni John F. Kennedy da Lyndon Johnson cikin taka tsantsan da ƙin yarda sun tura FBI don yin kama da kuma Ma'aikatar Shari'a don gabatar da tuhume-tuhume a cikin kisan gillar da aka yi wa ma'aikatan kare haƙƙin jama'a uku a Mississippi a 1964, babban soja Lemeul Penn a Jojiya a 1964, da yancin ɗan adam. ma'aikacin Viola Liuzzo a Alabama a 1965.
Sai dai wannan kisan gilla ne da ya jawo cece-ku-ce a kasar, kuma jami'an jihar sun yi kaurin suna wajen kin daukar mataki. Lokacin da aka matsa musu lamba don a kara gurfanar da su, jami’an gwamnatin tarayya sun yi ikirarin cewa jihohin ne kawai ke da alhakin hukunta wadannan laifuffuka, kuma idan ba su yi hakan ba da kadan za su iya yi. Wannan kaucewa doka ne a fili. Dokokin tarayya guda biyu sun baiwa ma’aikatar shari’a ikon gurfanar da jami’an gwamnati da jami’an tsaro wadanda suka aikata ko hada baki da wasu don aikata ta’addancin kabilanci. Majalisa ce ta zartar da dokokin nan da nan bayan yakin basasa kuma an yi nufin hukunta masu kai hare-haren launin fata na musamman ga baki. A yawancin kashe-kashen wariyar launin fata, sheriffs da jami'an 'yan sanda sun shiga kai tsaye wajen kai hare-haren, ko kuma taimaka wa masu kisan. Jami'an gwamnatin tarayya kuma za su iya gurfanar da da yawa daga cikin masu kisan gilla a karkashin dokar Lindberg, da aka zartar a cikin 1934, wanda ya sa sace sace wani laifi ne na tarayya. Alal misali, Moore da Dee, an yi garkuwa da su, aka kai su dajin kasar, inda aka yi musu dukan tsiya kuma ana iya kashe su. Hakan ya bai wa gwamnatin tarayya hurumin shari’a.
Sake bude bincike kan kisan da aka yi wa Moore da Dee ya sake jefa wani mummunan haske a lokacin da aka kashe bakar fata a Kudancin kasar tare da amincewar jami'an Kudancin kasar, da kuma makantar idon gwamnatin tarayya. Lokacin da masu gabatar da kara na jihohi da na tarayya suka gurfanar da wadanda ake zargi da kisan kai a duk wadannan shari’o’in, sai kawai za a iya rufe littafin har abada a kan muggan abubuwan da ‘yan Kudu suka gada na kisan kabilanci.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson marubuci ne kuma marubuci. Ziyarci gidan yanar gizon labaransa da ra'ayi: www.thehutchinsonreport.com Shi ne marubucin The Crisis in Black and Black (Middle Passage Press).
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