Nguva pfupi pashure pokunge mushandirapamwe weUnited States neBritain wokubhomba ‘Operation Desert Fox’ waparadza mativi eIraq muna Dec 1998, ndakanga ndichinyunyuta kushamwari yangu mukamuri rokusvikira kuPalestine Hotel muBaghdad.
Ndakaodzwa mwoyo nenyaya yekuti hurongwa hwedu hwakabatikana muIraq - kazhinji kushanyira zvipatara zvakazara nevakakuvara kana Depleted Uranium Victims - yakandisiya ndisina nguva yekutengera mashoma echiArabic mabhuku emwanasikana wangu mudiki kumashure. Sezvandakagadzirira kukwira rwendo rurefu rwebhazi kudzokera kuJordan, mumwe murume wokuIraq akanga ane ndebvu dzakakora nendebvu dzakanyatsogadzirwa akasvika kwandiri. “Iyi ndeyemwanasikana wako,” akadaro achinyemwerera achinditambidza bhegi repurasitiki. Bhegi iri raisanganisira anopfuura gumi nemaviri emabhuku ane mavara ane mavara echinyakare vana vekuIraqi nyaya. Ndakanga ndisati ndamboonana nomurume iyeye, uye hatina kuzomboonanazve. Akanga ari muenzi pahotera uye neimwe nzira akaziva nezvedambudziko rangu. Ndichingoti vhuu, asi ndichikurumidza kumutenda ndisati ndambogara mubhazi, akaramba achiti hapana mashoko akadaro aidiwa. “Tiri hama uye mwanasikana wenyu akafanana nowangu,” akadaro.
Handina kunyanya kushamisika nazvo. Rupo rwechiito nemweya chimiro chakasiyana cheIraqi uye maArabu anozviziva zvakanyanya. Humwe hunhu hweIraqi hunosanganisira kudada nekutsungirira, kwaimbove kwakakonzerwa nekuti Mesopotamia - inosanganisira yakawanda yemazuva ano Iraq - ndiyo 'yakazvarwa yebudiriro' uye yekupedzisira nekuda kwekuomerwa kusingaverengeki kwakaitwa nevaIraq munhoroondo yavo yemazuva ano.
Yakanga iri Britain yakakonzeresa njodzi yemazuva ano yeIraq, kutanga nekutora kwayo Baghdad muna 1917 uye nekugadziridza kwakarongeka kwenyika kuti ikwane zvakakwana zvinodiwa nemakoloni uye zvido zvehupfumi zveLondon. Mumwe anogona kutaura kuti mhirizhonga yekutanga uye isina kuenzana yakagadzirwa nevapanduki veBritish yakaramba ichiparadza, ichizviratidza nenzira dzakasiyana-siyana - ichitora masekete, mhirizhonga yezvematongerwo enyika uye mhirizhonga yemuganhu pakati peIraq nevavakidzani vayo - kusvika nhasi chaiye.
Asi hongu, iyo US ikozvino yakakodzera yakawanda yekiredhiti yekudzosera chero chakaitwa nevanhu veIraqi kuti vawane hutongi hwavo hunogara husingabviri. Aive Secretary of State weUS, James Baker, anonzi akatyisidzira Gurukota rezvekunze reIraq, Tariq Aziz mumusangano wekuGeneva muna 1991 achiti US ichaparadza Iraq uye "kuidzosera kunguva yematombo." Hondo yeUS, iyo yakawedzera kubva 1990 kusvika 2011, yaisanganisira kuvharika kunoparadza uye yakapera nechisimba. Hondo idzi dzakanga dzisina kunaka sezvadzakanga dziri dzechisimba. Kunze kwekuwanda kwevanhu, vakaiswa mukati mehurongwa hunotyisa hwezvematongerwo enyika hwakanangana nekubiridzira nyika iripo sekete uye mamwe mitsara yekukanganisa izvo zvinokonzeresa hondo dzevagari vemo uye ruvengo rwemasekete uko Iraq isingakwanise kuvhara kwemakore mazhinji.
Kune maAmerican, raingove zano rakanangana nekudzikisa kudzvanywa kwaiiswa pairi uye kune mamwe masoja emubatanidzwa pavakatarisana nekupikiswa kwakasimba panguva yavakatsika muIraq. Kune maIraqi zvakadaro, yaive hope dzinotyisa dzisingagone kuratidzwa nemashoko kana manhamba. Asi nhamba dziri kushayikwa zvechokwadi. Maererano nekufungidzira kweUN kwakataurwa neBBC, pakati paMay naJune 2006 “avhareji yevanhuwo zvavo vanopfuura 100 pazuva (vakaurayiwa) mumhirizhonga muIraq.” The UN yakachengeterwa fungidziro yakaisawo nhamba yekufa kwevanhu mukati me2006 pa34,000. Ndiro gore iro zano reUS rekuparadzanisa uye kukunda rakabudirira zvakanyanya.
Nekufamba kwemakore, vanhu vazhinji vari kunze kweIraq - sekune dzimwe mhirizhonga apo mhirizhonga yenguva refu inobereka huwandu hwerufu - vakangove vasina hanya nerufu. Zvinoita sokuti kana vanhu vakawanda vachifa, upenyu hwavo hunoderera.
Chokwadi chinoramba chiripo, zvisinei, kuti US neBritain dzakaparadzana zvakabatana Iraq yemazuva ano uye hapana chekuzvidemba kana kukumbira ruregerero - kwete kuti chero chakapihwa kutanga - chichachinja chokwadi ichi. Iraq vaimbove vatenzi vekoloni nevatsva vayo vakashaya chero chikonzero chepamutemo kana chetsika chekupinda munyika yakaparadzwa nezvirango. Vakanga vasinawo pfungwa ipi neipi yengoni sezvavakaparadza chizvarwa ndokugadzira gadziriro yerwisano yomunguva yemberi inopikira kuva inodeura ropa somunguva yakapfuura.
Kana mauto ekupedzisira eUS ekurwa akanzi abva muIraq muna Zvita 2011, izvi zvaireva kuve kupera kwenguva. Vanyori venhoroondo vanonyatsoziva kuti kunetsana hakupere nechisungo chemutungamiri wenyika kana kutumirwa kwemauto. Iraq ichangopinda muchikamu chitsva chekunetsana uye US, Britain nevamwe, vanoramba vari mapato akabatana ekukonana ikoko.
Imwe mushure mekupinda nechisimba uye chokwadi chehondo ndechekuti Iraq yakakamurwa kuita nzvimbo dzekupesvedzera zvichibva pamasekete nemadzinza. Muchikamu chenhau dzekumavirira kwevanokunda uye vakakundwa, vaSunni, vachipomerwa kudiwa nevaimbove Mutungamiriri weIraq, Saddam Hussein, vakabuda sevakakundwa zvakanyanya. Nepo mauto ezvematongerwo enyika eIraq akapatsanurwa pakati pevaShi'ite neveKurdish vezvematongerwo enyika (bato rimwe nerimwe neuto raro rakazvimiririra, vamwe vakaungana muBaghdad uye vamwe munzvimbo inozvitonga yeKurdistan), huwandu hwevanhu veShi'ite hwakabatwa nemapoka akasiyana emauto aitarisira Sunni. zvinosuwisa. Musi waKukadzi 8, mabhomba mashanu emotokari akaputika munzvimbo dzakakurumidza kuzivikanwa se "nzvimbo dzeShi'ite", kuuraya vanhu makumi matatu nemana. Mazuva mashoma apfuura, muna Kukadzi 34, vanhu makumi maviri nevaviri vakaurayiwawo nenzira yakafanana.
Kupokana kwemasekete muIraq uko kuri kukonzera kufa kwemakumi ezviuru, kuri kudzoka. Iraqi Sunnis, kusanganisira madzinza makuru nemapato ezvematongerwo enyika vari kuda kuenzana uye kupera kwekudzingwa kwavo mune itsva, yakatsveyama yezvematongerwo enyika eIraq pasi peMutungamiriri Nouri al-Maliki. Kuratidzira kukuru uye kuramwa mabasa kunoenderera mberi kwakarongwa neshoko rakabatana uye rakajeka rezvematongerwo enyika. Nekudaro, mamwe mapato mazhinji ari kushandisa kupolarization munzira dzese dzaungafungidzira: kugadzirisa zvibodzwa zvekare, kudzosera nyika kumucheto kwehondo yevagari, kuwedzera mhirizhonga iri kuitika munyika dzakasiyana dzeArab, kunyanya Siria, uye mune dzimwe nguva gadzirisa miganhu yemasekete munzira dzinogona kugadzira mikana yakanaka yebhizinesi.
Ehe, kupatsanurwa kwemasekete uye bhizinesi muIraq yanhasi zvinofambidzana. Reuters yakashuma kuti Exxon Mobil yakahaya Jeffrey James, aimbova mumiriri weUS kuIraq (kubvira 2010-12) se 'mubatsiri.' Chokwadi, uyu muenzaniso wekuti mushure mehondo diplomacy uye bhizinesi zvinodyidzana sei, asi pane zvakawanda Nyaya. Tichitora mukana wekuzvitonga kwedunhu reKurdistan, iyo hofori yepasi rose yemafuta negasi corporation yakabata madhiri anobhadhara ayo akazvimirira kubva kuhurumende yepakati muBaghdad. Vekupedzisira vanga vachiunganidza mauto avo pedyo nenzvimbo ine gakava ine mafuta emafuta kutanga kupera kwegore rapfuura. Hurumende yeKurd yakaita zvimwe chetezvo. Isingakwanisi kuona kuti nderipi bato rine simba repamusoro mukurwisana kwekubika, nokudaro kutonga mune ramangwana pamusoro pezviwanikwa zvemafuta, Exxon Mobile yakabvaruka: kukudza zvibvumirano zvayo nemaKurds, kana kutsvaga zvimwe zvibvumirano zvinobhadhara kumaodzanyemba. James anogona kunge aine pfungwa dzakanaka, kunyanya kana achishandisa simba rake rezvematongerwo enyika raakawana panguva yake semumiriri weUS.
Ramangwana reIraq parizvino riri kutariswa nemauto akasiyana siyana uye hapana kana mumwe wavo anoumbwa nezvizvarwa zveIraq zvine muono wakabatana. Vakabatwa pakati pemasekete anorwadza, mhirizhonga, vane nzara yemasimba, hupfumi huri kuunganidza vakwikwidzi, vatambi vemasimba edunhu, zvido zvekumavirira uye nhaka yehondo ine chisimba, vanhu veIraqi vari kutambura kupfuura kugona kwekuongorora kwezvematongerwo enyika kana huwandu hwekutora kushungurudzika kwavo. Nyika inodada yezvinogona kuitwa nevanhu zvinoshamisa uye tarisiro dzezvehupfumi zvinoshamisa dzabvarurwa kusvika padiki.
Munyori wekuIraq wekuUK Hussein Al-alak akanyora nezvemakore gumi ari kuuya ekurwisa Iraq aine mutero kune 'vakanyarara' nyika, vana. Maererano neIraqi Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, akashuma, kune vana vanofungidzirwa kuva mamiriyoni 4.5 avo zvino vava nherera, ne "70 inokatyamadza" yavo vakarasikirwa nevabereki kubva 2003 nechisimba.
"Kubva pahuwandu uhu, vana vanosvika mazana matanhatu ezviuru vari kugara mumigwagwa, vasina pekugara kana chikafu chekurarama," Al-alak akanyora. Avo vanogara mumisha mishoma yenherera inotungamirirwa nehurumende “parizvino vari kushaya zvavanoda zvakanyanya.”
Ndichiri kufunga nezvemurume wekuIraq ane mutsa akapa mwanasikana wangu muunganidzwa wenyaya dzeIraq. Ndofungawo vana vake. Rimwe remabhuku aakatenga raive raSindbad, rakaunzwa mubhuku semwana akashinga, akanaka aifarira kushanya sezvaaida nyika yake. Zvisinei nehutsinye hwakaita sei, Sinbad aigara achidzokera kuIraq ndokutanga patsva, sekunge hapana chamboitika.
Ramzy Baroud (www.ramzybaroud.net) munyori wepasi rese-akabatanidzwa uye mupepeti wePalestineChronicle.com. Bhuku rake razvino ndere: Baba Vangu vaive A Freedom Fighter: Gaza's Untold Story (Pluto Press).
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