Mukati memasekondi mashoma asingafungidzirwe, peya yehukuru 10 shangu dzave chombo chinoparadza zvakanyanya vanhu ve Iraki vakakwanisa kukanda masimba ekugara, mushure memakore anoda kusvika matanhatu ekugara uye kuramba kunotyisa. Mumwe munyori weIraq akadana shangu, akakandwa nemutori wenhau pa George Bush, "chombo cheIraq chekuparadza chose".
Nepo kumukira kweFalluja, Najaf, Basra neBaghdad vachipokana nekugara kucharamba kuripo sechiratidzo chevanhu vanoramba kugarwa, aya masekonzi anoshamisa akabatanidza maIraqi nenzira inoshamisa.
Kusiyana neruzhinji rwenhau, mutori wenhau weTV, Muntadhar al-Zaidi, ane makore makumi maviri nemasere, akaita nhoroondo kwete nekukanda shangu, kutaura kwepamusoro-soro kwekutuka mutsika dzeIraq, kumutungamiri weUS, asi nezvaakataura achiita. saka uye sezvaakanga avharwa neUS neIraqi vekuchengetedza varume. Akagomera vachimuzvuzvurudza kunze kwemusangano wevatori venhau. Vakabudirira kumunyararidza - uye sekureva kwemukoma wake akarohwa muhusungwa - asi akange atotaura zvakakwana kuzunungusa hutongi uye hutongi hwaNouri al-Maliki's Green Zone kunheyo dzavo.
Bvisa mazwi, uye kuchema kwake uye kwevanhu veIraqi kwekurwadziwa kukuru, kutsamwa uye kushora kwaizongofanana nekukanda shangu. Asi mashoko akanzwika. "Iyi ndiyo kiss yekuonekana iwe imbwa," akashevedzera achikanda bhutsu yekutanga. Mutsara wakakosha wakatevera shangu yechipiri: "Iyi inobva kuchirikadzi, nherera uye avo vakaurayiwa muIraq." Pakangonzwikwa mashoko iwayo, simba reshangu rakatanga kuita magetsi. Mutori wenhau wechidiki akaisa parutivi zvinodiwa nebasa rake, achida kuita sekuchema kukuru kwevanhu vake vane mwoyo murefu. Kana munhu akafunga kurwadziswa uye kuurayiwa mumajeri eIraqi neUS aigarotaurwa naMuntadhar mumishumo yake yeal-Baghdadia satellite TV chiteshi, ainyatsoziva kuti aigona kukuvara zvakanyanya.
Sezviteshi zvesatiraiti zveIraq neArab zvakabva pamusangano wevatori venhau wepamoyo kuenda kukuzivisa nezve chiitiko, varatidziri vakakatyamadzwa nevatori venhau vakatorwa nekutaura kwakakurumbira kwemufaro mumigwagwa, kubva kuBaghdad kuenda kuGaza kuenda kuCasablanca. Nhepfenyuro dzeTV uye mawebhusaiti emidhiya akazadzwa nemashoko ekurumbidza. Mhinduro yekukurumidza kune chero kushoropodza "kutuka muenzi" yaive: "Bush imhondi huru uye tsotsi rehondo rakaverevedza muBaghdad. Akauraya mamiriyoni eIraqi. Akapisa nyika."
Matauriro ekutsigira uye zvinodiwa kuti Muntadhar asunungurwe nekukurumidza akapararira kubva kuNajaf neFalluja kuenda kuBaghdad, uye kubva kuMosul kuchamhembe kuenda kuBasra kumaodzanyemba. Chiratidziro chinokatyamadza chekubatana kwe-anti-occupation chiri kukura nekukurumidza, mushure mekupedzwa simba nemauto emasekete kuti basa racho pacharo rakasimbisa uye nekudyisa, sezvaimboita Muntadhar pachake kusimbisa.
Hapana akabvunza mushure mechitendero cheMuntadhar kana kapoka, asi vese vaida shoko rake. Chokwadi, ini handisati ndasangana neIraq media media kana webhusaiti yakataura nezvechitendero chake, kapoka kana dzinza. Kutanga kwandakanzwa nezve "sekete" yake yaive kuburikidza neUS neBritish media.
Chokwadi ndechekuti Muntadhar inyanzvi yenyika ine gamba rinenge riri Che Guevara. Akave mutungamiriri wevadzidzi ane mukurumbira wekusiya pakarepo mushure mekugara, ari kuBaghdad University's media koreji. Akataura nezve al-Baghdadia pamusoro pevarombo uye vakadzvinyirirwa vakawirwa nehondo yeUS. Akatanga kuonekwa muSadr City uye kwose uko vanhu vaitambura nechisimba kana kushayiwa. Haana kungotevera nzira dzerufu nekuparadzwa dzeUS Apache, asi aivewo pakati pevekutanga kutaura hutsinye hwese hwe "sekete" uye kubhomba kwenzvimbo dzakakurumbira dzemisika. Akaita kuti vanyajambwa vatange kutaura.
Hwaive hutori venhau hunoshanda, vachishuma kuti vakaitirwa mhirizhonga ivo pachavo vakapomera basa rinotungamirwa neUS kuti ndiro rakakonzera kuuraya kwese. Aive izwi risinganyarare, kunyangwe akapambwa nechikwata uye akasungwa nemauto eUS nemauto.
Kuda kwake kune vakawirwa nehondo uye meseji yake yakasimba yekupokana nekugara kwakaita kuti adiwe nevaoni veal-Baghdadia. Uye mushure mekutumira Bush kubva muIraq mukuzvidzwa ave gamba renyika rinotyisa. Nherera yakarerwa naamainini vayo, uye ine zita rinoreva shuwa kana kumirirwa, yave chiratidzo chine simba chinobatanidza chekuzvidza, uye yave kutorwa nevaIraqi vasingaverengeki se "mwanakomana wedu watinoda".
Sami Ramadani, akadzingwa muhurumende yaSaddam, mudzidzisi mukuru paLondon Metropolitan University. [email inodzivirirwa]
Chinyorwa ichi chakatsikiswa muna The Guardian, 17 Zvita 2008.
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