Mirayiridzo yacho yakanga iri nyore. “Simuka iwe chibhakera iwe”, “Simuka iwe chidhambakura” akazhambatata mauto, zvichiteverwa nezvibhakera nezvibhakera. Dzimwe nguva kurohwa kwaibva pazvibhakera zvakawanda nebhutsu.
Kusimuka kwaireva kukwenya, hafu yakazendama nemadziro, maoko akananga kunze. Izvi zvinozivikanwa senzvimbo yekushushikana.
Mauto eBritish akaita kuti vashandi gumi vekuIraq vapedze mazuva akadai. Kunyange vakaramba vari panzvimbo vairohwa, vaidirwa weti kana kuti vaimanikidzwa kuinwa. Vaive vakafukidzwa musoro nemahewu.
Kurwadziswa uye kwaive kwakarongeka. Ndizvo zvaireva "kubvunzwa" nemauto ari kugara muIraq.
Pakupera kwedambudziko iri, mushandi wepahotera Baha Mousa akange afa. Mumwe musoja akazoti, "Takamurova kusvika afa".
Masoja eBritain akarova "nechisimba uye nekutya" vanhu vekuIraq, sekureva kweruzhinji kubvunza nezvekuuraya kwakaburitswa svondo rapfuura. Kubvunzurudza kweGage kwakagumisa kuti "chiitiko chinotyisa chemhirizhonga yakakomba, isina mhosva" nemauto eBritish yakauraya Baha.
Baha akafa mukati memaawa makumi matatu nematanhatu ekuendeswa muhusungwa hweBritish. Akagamuchira 36 kukuvara kwekunze, kusanganisira mhino yakatyoka uyewo kukuvara kwemukati kusanganisira mbabvu dzakatyoka.
Akafa neasphyxia.
Mhosva iyi imhosva yetsika dzechiuto. Zvinoratidza hutsinye uhwo mauto aiitira vanhuwo zvavo varaibvunzurudza.
Kubiwa
Kurwadziswa kwaBaha Mousa kwakatanga apo mauto akapinda muhotera muBasra, Iraq, musi wa14 Gunyana 2003. Baha akanga angoshanda pahotera kwemavhiki maviri chete. Raiva rimwe remabasa matatu aaiva naro kuti ariritire mhuri yake.
Mauto akasunga vashandi gumi mukurwisa—uye masoja akabira sefa yacho. Chiverengero chakati chevakasungwa chakakakwa uye misoro yavo yakachengetwa muzvimbudzi zvinorasa mvura. Zvakaipa zvikuru zvakanga zviri kuuya.
Varwi vakatora gumi vacho vachivaudza kuti vasashandisa zvivharo—nokuti boka repaTV rakanga rabuda panze. Asi vakarova vasungwa zvakare vasati vasvika kunzvimbo inovharirwa. Vasvika ikoko, dambudziko racho rakatanga chaizvo. Vasungwa vakarangarira kurohwa kwavo kuvamanikidza kutamba “saMichael Jackson”.
Kubvunzurudzwa kwakanzwa humbowo hwekuti vakapiswa nemvura yaivira, vakaitwa weti, vakakava, vakarohwa uye vakashaya hope.
Mumwe akarangarira kupihwa kwaakaitwa bhodhoro kuti aite weti. Paakakumbira kunwa pazuva rechitatu, zvaiva mubhodhoro iri zvakadirwa mumuromo make.
Mumwe musoja akabatawo chiso chake mumabhegi ejecha ndokuedza kumanikidza zvigunwe zvake mumaziso emusungwa.
Vamwe vakapiwa mvura yaipisa kuti vanwe ndokudirwa mvura inotonhora mumisoro yavo. Mumwe akanzwa Baha Mousa achidanidzira uye achizhambatata, achiti, "Ndichafa", "mhino yangu", "ndiri kubuda ropa".
Varwi vakaita makwikwi ekuona kuti ndiani angakave musungwa zvakanyanya.
Mushumo wacho unotaura kuti mumwe musungwa “akazorwa peturu mumhino dzake, akadirwa mvura mumusoro make uye chokubatidza chakabatwa pedyo nomusoro wake, nevavariro iri pachena yokumuita kuti afunge kuti peturu yakanga yava kuda kubatidzwa.”
Uye saka zvakaenderera mberi. "Kwenguva yese kusvika pakufa kwaBaha Mousa ... vasungwa vaichengetwa vakasungwa maoko, vakavharwa uye vari munzvimbo dzekushushikana mukupisa kwakanyanya uye mamiriro ehumwe squalor," mushumo wakadaro.
Kubvunzurudza kwakaridzwawo vhidhiyo yemumwe musoja, Corporal Donald Payne, achipopotera vasungwa uye achivadaidza kuti "maape anosvotesa".
Payne akave nhengo yekutanga yemauto kubatwa nemhosva yehondo paakabvuma kubata vanhu zvisiri pamutemo mudare remauto muna 2006.
Varwi vakaita shoo apo vakaita kuti vasungwa vave “kwaya”—kuvarova kusvikira vazhamba. "Kunopera kwezuva rechipiri vese vakarwadziwa zvakanyanya zvekuti aitofanira kuvapuruzira kuti vaite ruzha," akadaro aimbova musoja Gareth Aspinall muhumbowo hwemushumo. "Vaenzi pavakauya vakazvionawo zvinosetsa."
Pane imwe nguva, mauto akabata "yemahara kune vese" apo vazhinji vavo vakarwisa maIraqi ese kamwechete. Pakati pekurohwa, vasungwa vakabvunzurudzwa. Hapana chavakanga vatadza.
Akakundikana
Gwaro iri rinodoma masoja gumi nemapfumbamwe seakarova vasungwa — kunyange hazvo ongororo iyi isina kukwanisa kuziva vamwe vakati wandei. Inoti Colonel Jorge Mendonca, mukuru wechikwata ichi, "ane mutoro unorema wezviitiko izvi". Mutongi wedare redzimhosva aenda pamudyandigere Sir William Gage akatambira kuti Mendonca aisaziva kuti kushungurudzwa uku kuri kuitika.
Asi akati Mendonca akakundikana nekusaziva "chaizvo izvo zvinosanganisirwa".
Chirevo hachitauri kuti pakanga paine kushungurudzwa kwakarongeka kwevasungwa veIraq. Asi zvinonongedza kuti kufa kwaBaha kwanga kusiri chiitiko chimwe chete.
Gage anoisa mhosva pamusuwo wemasoja ega ega nevakuru, pamwe nekutadza kutaurirana kwemukati. Anoshora "kurasikirwa nechirango uye kushaikwa kweushingi hwetsika" izvo zvaireva kuti masoja haana kushuma kushungurudzwa.
Masoja aigara achinyepa kuti chii chaiitika. Nguva nenguva, varwi vaiti vakanga vasingayeuki zvavakanga vaona kana kuti kuita.
Amnesia iyoyo yakaenda kumusoro chaiko.
Killing
Vakuru vemauto sezviri pachena vaisaziva nezve kurambidzwa kwakaiswa muna 1972 pakushandiswa kwemaitiro mashanu ekutambudza, anosanganisira hooding, nzvimbo dzekushushikana uye kunyimwa kurara.
Kunyange vachitsoropodza humbowo hwemauto akati wandei, uye nemanyepo akataurwa nezvekuvharirwa kwevaIraqi, Gage akatonga kuti pakanga pasina kuvharika kwerufu rwaBaha.
Mushure mekuuraya kwaBaha, hurumende yakataura kuti kuvharirwa kwevasungwa kwakange kwamira, izvo zvayakange isina, uye kuti haina kushandiswa kubvunzurudza, izvo zvaive.
Chirevo ichi chinoti nepo Ministry of Defense (MoD) yakapa ruzivo rwusina chokwadi, kana ivo, vehurumende, kana makurukota vanga vafunga kutsausa. Panzvimbo iyoyo kubvunza kunoshora "kutadza kwekambani" kweMoD.
Izvi zvaisanganisira gurukota rezvemauto, Adam Ingram, rekuti "aisaziva chero chiitiko icho vabvunzi veku UK vanonzi vakashandisa hood senzira yekubvunzurudza".
Asi Ingram akange atumirwa memo achitsanangura zvakaitika kuna Baha Mousa. Ingram akati, "Zvirokwazvo zvaisazova musimba rangu kurangarira
zvese zvandainge ndaudzwa."
Chirevo ichi chinocherekedzawo kurasikirwa kwendangariro kwaimbova munyori wezvekudzivirirwa kweVashandi Geoff Hoon. Inoti, “Mhinduro dzake dzakaratidza kuti zvimwe akanga asina kunyatsonzwisisa kuti mhinduro yake yakanga isiri yechokwadi.”
Chirevo ichi chinopa humbowo hwekuti masoja akadzidziswa mune dzinonyanya nzira dzekushungurudza. Ikoku, kwakabatanidzwa netsika yorusaruraganda namasimba masimba, kunotsanangura chikonzero nei kutambudza kwakanga kuri kwakajairika.
Private Stuart MacKenzie weQueen's Lancashire Regiment aive mumwe weavo vairinda Baha. Mazuva mashoma hotera isati yatorwa, MacKenzie akanyora mudhayari rake, "Vakawana 3 Ali Babas paWTP7, vakavarova netsvimbo, vakaitora. Zuva rakanaka kusvika izvozvi."
Kubvunzurudza kunopedzisa chete kuti panofanirwa kuve nekudzidziswa kuri nani kune inonzi nemauto "nzira yakaoma". Uye inokurudzira mauto anodonhedza nzira dzekudzidzisa "kuchengetedza kuvhunduka kwekubatwa" uye "kurebesa kuvhunduka kwekubatwa".
Hurumende yakabva yaramba izvi, ichiti hupenyu hunogona kuiswa panjodzi kunze kwekunge mauto akwanisa kushandisa nzira dzese "dzinodiwa".
Kubvunzurudza kwavhenekera hutsinye hwehondo muIraq. Asi zvakasiya kugadzwa kusina kubatwa, chimiro chekuraira uye vezvematongerwo enyika vasina mhosva. Hakusi kururama.
ZNetwork inopihwa mari chete kuburikidza nerupo rwevaverengi vayo.
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