Mumakore maviri apfuura, muno muAmman, Jordan, ndaigara ndichishanyira mhuri yaUmm Hamdi, mukadzi wekuIraq akamanikidzwa kubuda munyika yake yeIraq makore mana apfuura nekutyisidzirwa nerufu kunotyisa mushure mekunge murume wake, angangove akatyisidzirwa. mhirizhonga, yakanyangarika. Kunyange zvazvo achiwanzosangana netsumo yekuti "cold shoulder" paanenge achiedza kuvandudza mamiriro emhuri yake, anoenderera mberi,-masikati anochengeta vana kune imwe mhuri uye, manheru, anoruka, anosona, nekugadzira mabasa emaoko kuti atengese. musika wemuno. Umm Hamdi akaoma, akasimba uye akatsunga kuriritira vana vake. Kunyange zvakadaro, haana kuchengeteka zvinosuruvarisa saamai vasina murume uye mumwezve mupoteri pakati pezviuru zviri munyika umo zvinhu zvokurarama nazvo zviri zvishoma. Uye ari kutyira mwanakomana wake achiri muIraq.
Husiku huviri hwapfuura, ndakaenda kufurati rake diki risina chinhu mamwe manheru apo vanasikana vavo vadiki vakanga vari muchengeti wesangano rinopa rubatsiro uye akanga ari oga pamba. Ndakaona kuneta kwaakanga aita nekushanda kuti avatsigire - asi chinonyanya kutaura pamusoro pake kushushikana uye kuzvidemba kwaanoita Hamdi, mwanakomana wake achiri kuyaruka, uyo haabvumidzwe kupinda muJorodhani nekuti ijaya rinopfuura makore gumi nemashanu ekuberekwa, uye nekuda kwekutya mhirizhonga yakawandisa kana kuti nekuda kwekuisa zviwanikwa zvayo zvinobhadhariswa mutero pakati pevakadzi nevana, mutemo weJordan unomurambidza zvachose kupinda. MuIraq, Hamdi anogara nemhuri inomushora nekuda kwekusashanda kwake, (hapana mabasa), uye haakwanise kuchengetedza rutsigiro rudiki rwavanomupa.
Umm Hamdi anorwadziwa nekuzvidemba nekuparadzana nemwanakomana wake. Mukuridza runhare nguva dzose, anoziva kuti hanzvadzi dzake dziri kuenda kuchikoro, kuti mumwe apedza purogiramu yerovedzo yebasa, uye kuti apo mwanasikana mukuru akanga achangobva kuroorwa mhuri yakaita zvose zvayaigona kumuitira muchato wetsika. Kutambudzika kunomukurira sezvaanorondedzera kurukurirano yavo yazvino uno: โUnoitira vanasikana vako chinhu chiri chose,โ iye akanga adanidzira, parunhare: โzvose nokuda kwavo, asi zvakadiniko neni? Zvakadiniko neni? Ndiri mwanakomana wako! Anobata maoko ake pameso. Ari pakati pekuchema, anodzokorora, "Mwanakomana wangu, mwanakomana wangu."
Mwanakomana wake mumwe wezviuru zvakawanda muIraq vasina rombo rakanaka, vasingashande, vasina kudzidza, uye vakasurukirwa nevabereki nevanun'una vane rombo rakanaka kutizira kunyika dzakavakidzana.
Sangano reInternational Organisation for Migration (IOM) rinoti hurombo huri kuita kuti vakomana nevechidiki vekuIraq vabve mukupererwa nezano, vachipinda mumauto. Mushumo weIOM wa2007 wakataura kuti "varwi vehondo dzimwe nguva vanotenga kuvimbika kwevanhu vakadzingwa nekuvapa zvimwe zvezvinhu zvavanoda, zvakadai sezvokudya nepekugara. Vana vakawanda vari kupinda mumapoka aya ane zvombo, mauto nevapanduki," akadaro. Mukuru weIOM Dana Graber Ladeck. "Dzimwe nguva vanozviita nekuda kwemari uye dzimwe nguva kutsiva, asi isu tiri kutsvaga varwi vevana vakawanda, sekutaura." (Ndira 30, hurukuro yeVoice of America)
Vamwe vechiduku vanobvuma kutakura pfuti uye kunzvimbo dzekuongorora vanhu kune varwi vakasimba uye vane zvombo zvikuru munyika mavo, mauto eUnited States. Achitaurira Reuters, Adrian Croft munguva pfupi yapfuura akanyora nezve "chikwata chevarume vanobata maAK-47 panzvimbo yekutarisa muBaghdad's Sadr City," vamwe vevadiki mazana mashanu vakatorwa neUS sechikamu chechirongwa chitsva che "kusimbisa mauto eIraq" kumashure kwemukwikwidzi weUS Moqtada Sadr. (Jordan Times, Chikumi 500). Vatsva vanopinda basa panjodzi kuti vawane madhora mazana matatu pamwedzi, vachichengetedza nzvimbo dzekutarisa idzi. Hapana mubvunzo kuti rimwe remabasa akanakisa mudhorobha. Sarudzo iyi, munhu achaifarira, ichakwezva mwanakomana waUmm Hamdi?
Vamwe vechidiki veIraq vakatsvairwa nemauto eUS vakaendeswa kumajeri, pasina mhosva, senzira yekuvadzivisa kujoina mauto eIraq. Musi waChivabvu 19, 2008, Fox News yakashuma kuti mauto eUS akabata vechidiki mazana mashanu vanofungidzirwa kuti "varwi vevavengi zvisiri pamutemo" munzvimbo dzevasungwa muIraq. Muna Nyamavhuvhu we500, tichitarisira "kuvhiya kwemauto," CNN yakashuma kuti US yakasunga, pasina mhosva, vechidiki mazana masere eIraqi (kana "njodzi dzekuchengetedza") pakati pemakore gumi nerimwe negumi nematanhatu, mu "chikoro chejeri," kuvadzivisa kukweretesa miviri yavo kumauto sematsotsi kana kuti vapambi. Mutori wenhau weCNN akataura kuti, mukati mechikoro, mabhuku uye makirasi chimwe "chombo" chekurwisa hugandanga. Mukuru mukuru Lt. Glenn akataura chinangwa chake achiti: "Tinova nechokwadi chokuti pavanosunungurwa kuti havadaro - vanotora bhuku panzvimbo peAK-2007 kana kuisa IED. Uye izvi ndizvo zvinonyatsodzokera kwazviri." Uye kana yadzokera kuvarume vechidiki vakaita saHamdi, meseji yacho inonyatsojeka: US ichapa pfuti dzakawanda uye zvinoputika chero bedzi kurwiswa kuchiitwa muzita rekuchengetedza US "chengetedzo."
Umm Hamdi haadi kuti mwanakomana wake atore pfuti kana kuisa chinhu chinoputika, cheIraq kana chero ani zvake. Aizoda kumuona achitora bhuku. Anochema kurara husiku achidemba kuti dai angomuona. Asi haakwanise kudzosa vanasikana vake kumhirizhonga yakaitika munyika yake nekupinda kweUS. Uye naJoridhani achinetseka kuti ave nevapoteri vaakatora, haakwanise kuburitsa mwanakomana wake muIraq.
Zvaizomusimbisa here kufunga kuti Hamdi angawana pekugara akachengetedzeka uye ozadzisa zvimwe zvinangwa zvedzidzo kana varindi vemauto eUS vaigona kumusunga kwegore kana kupfuura? Zvingabatsira here kana ndikamuudza kuti mamirioni evabereki vari varombo muUS vanonetsekana kuti vanakomana vavo vangangopinda mutirongo, uye kuti vazhinji vanoona mauto senzira iri nani?
Ndakataura naye kwenguva yakati rebei. Vanasikana vake vakadzoka kubva kuchiitiko chavakanga vaitirwa nesangano rerudo, zviso zvavo zvaipenya nokupenya uye maoko avo aiva nemavara ane mavara akapendwa. Umm Hamdi akapukuta misodzi kubva kamwe kamwe, zvekumanikidzira, kutaura kwemufaro. Akatora bhora diki reshinda - royal blue - ndokutanga basa rekukurumidza kundirukira juzi, chipo chekuparadzana chandichaenda nacho kana ndabva pano. "Kuri kutonhora muChicago, kutonhora kwazvo!" akadaro achigadzika tsono neshinda. Akandibata mapendekete kuti ndinzwisise kuti aisada kuti ndive nechando. "Aiwa hatidi kuti utonhore."
Kathy Kelly ([email inodzivirirwa]) Co-coordinates Voices for Creative Nonviolence (www.vcnv.org)
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