"Tsarin farfaganda zai kasance koyaushe yana nuna mutanen da ake zalunta a cikin jihohin abokan gaba a matsayin wadanda suka cancanta," in ji Edward Herman da Noam Chomsky a cikin littafinsu na 1988 Manufacturing Consent. Sabanin haka "waɗanda aka bi da su daidai ko mafi girma ta gwamnatinta ko abokan cinikinta ba za su cancanci ba."
'Yan Iraqi suna da shakku game da iya shigar da wannan gaskiyar game da kafofin watsa labaru na yammacin duniya a cikin tarihin al'ummarsu. Mutum 5,000 da Saddam Hussein ya shafa a Halabja a shekarar 1988 sun zama abin damuwa ne kawai a lokacin da Iraki ta mamaye Kuwait a 1990 kuma Hussein ya zama sabon Hitler.
An ci gaba da sauri zuwa 2006 kuma an buga wani binciken da aka yi nazari a cikin mujallar Likita ta Lancet wanda aka kiyasta cewa 'yan Iraki 655,000 ne suka mutu sakamakon mamayewar Amurka da Burtaniya a 2003. Mutuwar ta kasance sakamakon ayyukan gwamnatinmu kai tsaye. Don haka, kamar yadda Herman da Chomsky suka ce, gwamnatin Burtaniya ta yi gaggawar yin watsi da binciken, inda mai magana da yawun Tony Blair ya ce adadin bai yi daidai ba.
Les Roberts, jagoran marubucin binciken, tabbas ya sha mamaki. A shekara ta 2000 ya gudanar da bincike kan mace-macen da ake yi a Jamhuriyar Demokradiyyar Kongo (DRC) ta hanyar amfani da hanyoyin gwaji da gwaji da ya yi amfani da su a Iraki. Blair, tare da wasu da dama, ba tare da wata shakka ba, sun buga sakamakon binciken da DRC ta gudanar a lokuta da dama, domin ingiza daukar mataki. Bugu da ƙari, buƙatar 'Yancin Bayani ya bankado gaskiyar cewa Babban Mashawarcin Kimiyya na Ma'aikatar Tsaro ya ruwaito hanyoyin binciken Lancet sun kasance "kusa da mafi kyawun aiki" da kuma ƙirar binciken "ƙarfi".
Kamar yadda al'ada ta kasance cikin baƙin ciki a lokacin yaƙi, kafofin watsa labaru sun bi tsarin Gwamnati sosai kuma sun yi watsi da binciken Lancet. Madadin haka adadin Jikin Iraki (IBC) wanda ya ragu sosai - a halin yanzu yana kusan mutuwar fararen hula 120,000 na Iraki - ya zama adadi mafi yawan lokuta da aka ambata. Wanda ba ƙwararrun ƙwararru ke gudanarwa ba, IBC tana da iyakancewa mai ƙarfi saboda tana amfani da sa ido na yau da kullun, ƙidayar mutuwar farar hula daga rahotannin kafofin watsa labarai, ƙarin asibiti, gidan gawa, ƙungiyoyin sa kai da alkaluman hukuma.
Gabaɗaya, hotunan mutuwa da halaka daga Iraki an kiyaye su a kan allonmu da kuma a shafukan jaridunmu. Jaridar Sun tabbas ta sami lambar yabo don 'Best Channeling Of Propaganda Gwamnati' lokacin da ta buga kanun labarai masu zuwa a ranar mamaya: 'Yakin "Tsaftace" na Farko: Mutuwar Farar Hula na iya zama Zero, MoD da'awar'.
Yanzu, wani sabon kuri'ar jin ra'ayin jama'a na Burtaniya ya nuna ainihin sakamakon gazawar kafafen yada labarai ko rashin son bayar da rahoton adadin wadanda suka mutu daga Iraki a gaskiya. Dangane da binciken da ComRes ya gudanar, kashi 74 cikin 50,000 na wadanda suka amsa sun kiyasta cewa kasa da 59 mayakan Iraqi da fararen hula ne suka mutu sakamakon yakin. Abin mamaki, kashi 10,000 cikin 6 na masu amsa sun yi kiyasin cewa kasa da 500,000 'yan Iraqi ne suka mutu saboda yakin. Kashi XNUMX cikin XNUMX na wadanda suka amsa zaben sun kiyasta adadin wadanda suka mutu ya haura XNUMX na Iraqi.
Sakamako "wani zagi ne na tsarin watsa labarai na kamfanoni na Burtaniya", in ji mai sa ido kan kafofin watsa labarai na Intanet Media Lens. “Wannan ba wani sakamako ba ne, hatsari ne; sakamako ne da ake iya hasashen tsarin watsa labarai na kamfanoni wanda ya samo asali don yaudara.”
Ga masu sha'awar batun dole ne su karanta littafin John Tirman na 2011 Mutuwar Wasu: Matsalolin Fararen Hula a Yaƙin Amurka. A matsayin mutumin da ya ba da umarnin binciken Lancet na 2006, Tirman ya ce jama'ar Amurka sun jahilci, kuma ba ruwansu da, yawan fararen hular da sojojin Amurka suka kashe a Koriya, Vietnam, Afghanistan da Iraki. Abin sha'awa, ya yi watsi da hujjar cewa wannan rashin kulawa yana da alaƙa da rashin aikin jarida na yau da kullum. Maimakon haka, ya ce “babban bayani game da” mutuwar farar hula “ba ta canja halin ko in kula ba” a tsakanin jama’a.
Sabanin haka, Noam Chomsky ya yi jayayya da "'yan ƙasa na ikon daular… ku kula, kuma ina tsammanin shi ya sa su ne na ƙarshe don sani". Lallai, me ya sa, idan ra'ayin jama'ar Yammacin Turai ba su gaza ba ga waɗanda ke fama da manufofin ketare na yammacin Turai, shin gwamnatinmu tana kashe lokaci da kuɗi mai yawa don hulɗar jama'a na lokacin yaƙi? "Akwai wata manufa ta gaba ɗaya ta MoD don kiyaye firgicin abin da ke faruwa a Afganistan daga cikin jama'a, kuma hakan na yiwuwa saboda dalilai na siyasa", wani babban jami'in ya shaida wa jaridar Telegraph a 2008. "Idan an san ainihin gaskiya. zai yi matukar tasiri ga daukar Sojoji kuma Gwamnati za ta fuskanci matsananciyar matsin lamba ta janye sojojin."
Matukar gwamnatoci suka yi aiki don sanya jama'a cikin duhu, aikin masu ci gaba ne su sanar da jama'a, da fatan fushin jama'a game da halakar da sojojin yammacin Turai ke yi a duniya. Sabuwar jefa kuri'a na ComRes muhimmin kayan aiki ne a cikin wannan gwagwarmayar da ake yi da mulkin mallaka na Amurka-Birtaniya.
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