Sezvakataurwa nemutori wenhau Nermeen Al-Mufti muna 2004, "Fallujah yakambonzi guta reminarets. Yakamboita maungira erwizi rwaYufratesi mukunaka kwayo nekudzikama. Yaiva nemvura yakawanda uye yakasvibira. Yakanga iri nzvimbo yekutandarira yezhizha yeIraqis. Vanhu vaienda ikoko kunotandara, kunotuhwina padhamu reHabbaniya raiva pedyo, kunodya kebab.โ
Panguva iyoyo, Fallujah yaive nzvimbo yekupikisa. Fallujah yaive chiratidzo chedunhu rose mukuzvidza basa. Ndicho chikonzero nei Fallujah yakaparadzwa - ikozvino 10 makore apfuura. MuFallujah, uto guru repamusoro-soro munhoroondo rakashandisa simba rayo remoto pane imwe yenzvimbo dzine vanhu vakawanda muIraq.
Fallujah ainyanya kubatwa sea "free-fire zone". Mauto epasi asati atsvaga dzimba dze "magandanga", dzimba dzakaputirwa nemabulldozer - zvisinei nemhedzisiro. Fallujah iGuernica, Fallujah iGrozny. Fallujah ndiyo Srebrenica yekuUSA. Asi kuurayiwa kweFallujah kwave kwakachengetwa murunyararo.
Munguva yeUS / Coalition-kutora Fallujah, iyo yakatanga mushure meHondo yeIraq ye2003, hutsinye hwekufamba mumigwagwa, kupambwa kwedzimba, kutyisidzira, kuvharirwa mutirongo reAbu-Ghraib uye kuurayiwa kwevagari veFallujah zvakakonzera kupokana neCoalition. Vanhu veFallujah vakazonzi "vapanduki" uye "magandanga". Ikoko kwaiva kukanganisa. Chaizvoizvo, kumukira muFallujah kwaive kupikisa kwepamutemo kwakarwisana nekugara kunze kwenyika zvisiri pamutemo.
Muna 2004, mauto eU. Kutaura zvazviri, "kushanda" kwakafanana nekurangwa kwevanhu vose. Izvi zvakaratidzwa ne "operation's" magadzirirwo nemigumisiro, "Mavhiki masere emabhomba makuru akadzingwa anenge maviri muzvitatu zve Fallujah's 300,000 vagari. Vanhu vazhinji vakamira "misasa yevasquatters isina zvivakwa zvakakosha" uye makumi ezviuru vakaramba vari vapoteri kwemakore anotevera.โ
Mukutanga kwaNovember, Fallujah yakavharwa, asi varume pakati pemakore 15-55 pavakadziviswa kubva muguta. Mauto โkugura mvura yeguta, magetsi nezvokudyaโ.
Mubhuku rake Nyika dzakakundikana, Noam Chomsky akataura sezvizvi: "Zvirongwa izvi zvakafanana nedanho rekutanga rekuurayiwa kweSrebrenica, kunyangwe vapambi veSerb vakatakura vakadzi nevana kubva muguta pane kuvabhomba."
Mauto eUS/Coalition akaita kurwisa kwakazara kwemauto. Sangano reUS/Coalition rakashandisa zvombo zvinorema uye zvehondo senge AC-130 pfuti dzine otomatiki, pfuti dzeCobra dzichipfura pfuti dzinokandwa, F-18s, matangi eAbrams aipfura 120mm rounds, matangi eBradley achipfura 25mm rounds, coils inoputika kubvisa minda yezvimbambaira ine 1,800. makirogiramu ezvinoputika, mabhomba 500 ne2,000 pound, maroketi aibatsira mabhomba ane 55 yard kuuraya nhandare, 155-millimeter artillery shells, howitzer shells, mortar rounds, heavy cannon, uye high velocity machine pfuti.
Musi waNovember 10, muGermany Sรผddeutsche Zeitung rakabudiswa mushumo na Reutersiyo yakataura Lt Col. John Morris achitaura kuti mauto eUnited States aizopinda mu Fallujah "sechibhakera" (US-Truppen Erreichen Zentrum Falludschas," Sรผddeutsche Zeitung, 10 November, map. 1., 2004).
Kuti mauto akarova sei kuburikidza neFallujah anogona kuverengerwa kubva kune tsananguro yemuenzaniso mukuvhara mapepanhau. Mu sununguka, Kim Sengupta naJustin Huggler vakafunga nezvemaitiro ekutanga ekushandisa, "Chikepe cheAC-130 chakarova guta husiku hwese nemoto wepfuti sezvo kuputika kukuru kwepfuti dzekuUS kwakaenderera kusvika mangwanani. Guta rakapwanywa zuva rose nekurova kwemhepo, pfuti nemoto wedhaka. Ndege dzehondo dzakarwisa guta, uye mabhomba mana e500-pound akadonhedzwa pamusoro peFallujah kusati kwaedza. " (Hondo yeFallujah Rages," The Independent, 9 Mbudzi, map. 1, 4, 2004)
The New York Times ' Dexter Filkins, akanga ari muuto reUnited States muFallujah, airatidza masoja โachipfura tambo yemayadhi mazana maviri ine 200 pounds yezvinoputika nechekumaodzanyemba kubva kuberm, vakananga kudhorobha reFallujahโ ( Urban Warfare Deals Harsh Challenge to Troops,โ New York Times, 9 November, map. 1, 2004). Iyi yaive nzira yekubvisa migodhi inonzi Miclic yakatanga kushandiswa paD Day kutsvaira mahombekombe eNormandy. The Times's Defence editor Michael Evans akati:
"Miclic inowanzo gadzirirwa nzvimbo dzakavhurika nekuti inounza kumanikidza kwakanyanya, kumisa zvimbambaira munzvimbo yakakura. [โฆ] Inoshanda zvakanyanya asi zvakare haina rusarura, uye haiwanzoonekwa seyakakodzera nharaunda yemudhorobha. (Deadly Rockets Blast Way through," The Times, 10 November, map. 9, 2004)
Robert F. Worth, we New York Times yakataura bhuku rewebhusaiti nemutori wenhau weNBC Kevin Sites, uyo aive akabatanidzwa neMarines muFallujah uye akanyora kuti mauto akashanda "nemitemo yakasununguka yekubatana". Maererano naWorth, kunyora kwacho kwakaenderera mberi "kuchitaura nezvemugungwa achitaura zvinhu zvose kumadokero kwenzvimbo yake muFalluja yaiva 'zvombo zvakasununguka.' Inoenderera mberi ichiti, โZvombo zvakasununguka zvinoreva kuti vafambisi vengarava vanogona kupfura chero chavanenge vaona โ zvose zvinoonekwa sehasha.โโ ( Newsman Who Taped Marine Shooting Captive Keeps Silent,โ New York Times, 18 November, map. 15, 2004)
Nekuda kweizvozvo, uye sekunyora kwakaita Jacqui Spinner mu Washington Post, vagari vomuFallujah vakanga vataura kuti "vakange vangobatwa mukutsvaira kwevapanduki vaibata zvisina kufanira varume vose vezera rehondo" (Fallujans Staying at Mosque Get Grim Task: Grave Digging," Washington Post, 20 November, map. A 12, 2004).
Asi chokwadi, pane humbowo hwekuti mauto eUS/Coalition anogona kunge akauraya vanhuwo zvavo zvisina tsarukano. Semuyenzaniso, mutori wenhau akazvimirira weUS-America Dahr Jamail akashuma panguva iyoyo Mutsva Mutsva pepanhau repamhepo, "Varume vava kupotera munzvimbo yeBaghdad vari kutaura nyaya dzinotyisa dzekuurayiwa kusingasaruri nemauto eUS panguva yekurwa kwakanyanya mwedzi wapera muguta rakanyanya kuparadzwa reFallujah."
Mubvunzurudzo pamwe The New Standard, Burhan Fasaรข a, mutori wenhau wekuIraq anoshandira nhepfenyuro yeTV yakakurumbira yeLebanese, LBC, akati akaona mhosva dzeUS pedyo. Burhan Fasaรข, anga ari muFallujah kwemazuva mapfumbamwe panguva yekurwa kwakanyanya, akati vanhu vekuAmerica vakakurumidza kuvhiringidzika nevaIraqi vasingagoni kutaura Chirungu. โVanhu vokuAmerica vakanga vasina vaturikiri navo,โ akadaro Fasaรข a, โsaka vakapinda mudzimba ndokuuraya vanhu nemhaka yokuti vakanga vasingagoni kutaura Chirungu. Vakapinda mumba mandakanga ndiri nevanhu 26, uye [ivo] vakapfura vanhu nemhaka yokuti [vanhu] vakanga vasingateereri mirairo [yavarwi], kunyange nemhaka bedzi yokuti vanhu vaisagona kunzwisisa shoko rechiNgezi.โ
Funga kuti maererano nekufungidzira kwepamutemo neThe Emergency Working Group iyo inosanganisira UN, Red Cross / Crescent uye hushumiri hwakasiyana-siyana hweIraqi Interim Government, vanenge 50,000 vagari vemo vaitarisirwa kuvanda muFallujah, guta rakaoma rine hukuru hwe3. x 3,5 makiromita muchikwere. Nekuda kweizvozvo, "operation" yakaparadza inenge 70% yeguta uye yakauraya kusvika fungidziro ye 6,000vanhu.
Mune documentary ye RAI chiteshi chenhepfenyuro, Vatori venhau vekuItaly Sigfrido Ranucci naMaurizio Torrealta vakadana chiitiko ichi The Hidden Massacre.
Asi, kusvika nhasi, Fallujah haina kunyanya kurondedzerwa sekuuraya muWestern intellictual and media culture. Pasina chero kuferefetwa kwemutemo, kuurayiwa kweFallujah kwakachengetwa kwakanyarara.
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