By Elliot Swain, Janairu 15, 2018
A ranar Janairu 13-15, 2018, wani taro a Baltimore, a sansanin soja na {asar Amirka, ya kawo wa] ansu tarurruka, daga dukan fa] in duniya. Maganganun sun gano yawancin barazanar da sojojin Amirka ke fuskanta-daga ikon mallakar ƙasa da yanayin da lafiyar jama'a.
Rundunar sojan Amurka a kasashen waje sun kasance suna da tarihin tarihin mulkin mallaka na Amurka wanda ya danganci yakin basasar Spain da Amurka da kuma gwamnatin Amurka da kasar Cuba. Yawancin wurare masu yawa sun gina a lokacin yakin duniya na biyu da yakin Koriya, kuma har yanzu akwai. Rufe wadannan asasoshin na iya nuna alamar kwanciyar hankali na tsawon tarihin jini, hadarin yaƙe-yaƙe na ƙasashen waje kuma yana tabbatar da ka'idar tabbatar da kansa ga dukan mutane. Kalmomi daga Jafananci, Koriya, Afrika, Ostiraliya da kuma ƙungiyoyi masu adawa na Puerto Rican sun taru a taron don zana waɗannan haɗin kai da kuma shirya zaman lafiya a nan gaba.
Daidai dai, taron ya nuna 16th bikin tunawa da bude gidan kurkuku a Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Masu zanga-zanga sun taru a waje da fadar White House a ranar Janairu 11 don buƙatar saki 'yan jarida 41 har yanzu an tsare su ba tare da zargi a kurkuku ba cewa tsohon Shugaba Obama ya yi alkawarin rufewa. Amma a yayin da shugaban kwamitin na NNC a kan Cuba Cheryl LaBash ya ce, "Guantanamo ya fi gidan kurkuku." A gaskiya ma, asusun soja na Guantanamo ita ce mafi tsufa na dakarun Amurka a kasar waje, tare da dagewar kariya a 1901 a karkashin Neocolonial Platt Amincewa.
Wannan yunkurin neman rufe kurkuku na Guantanamo ba bisa ka'ida ba ne, kuma ya kasance daidai da yunkurin da aka yi don dawo da bay ga mutanen Cuba. Tarihin Guantanamo ya nuna yadda cin zarafi na zamani na zamani ya biyo bayan ƙaddararrun karni na karni na Amurka.
Har ila yau, taron ya ba da gudummawa game da tasirin da ya shafi tashe-tashen hankulan gida da na waje a kan yanayin da lafiyar jama'a. A cewar farfesa na lafiyar muhalli Patricia Hynes, shine mafi rinjaye na manyan rukunin yanar gizo - shafukan da EPA ke ganowa a matsayin haɗari ga lafiya ko muhalli - sune sansanin sojojin ƙasashen waje. Pat Pater daga kungiyar Duniya ba tare da Yaƙi ba ya nuna yadda Cibiyar Allegheny Ballistic ta Sojan Ruwa a West Virginia a kai a kai ke kwararar trichlorethylene, sanannen sankara, a cikin ruwan karkashin ruwa na Potomac. Cibiyar Yakin Naval a Dahlgren, Virginia tana kona kayan sharar mai haɗari tsawon shekaru 70.
Rashin karfin soja da rashin kulawa da lafiyar jama'a an jefa shi da jinƙai mai kyau ta hanyar batun Fort Detrick a Maryland. Rundunar soji ta zubar da sludge na radiyo a cikin ruwan karkashin kasa, wanda maƙwabcin Frederick ke da nasaba da lalacewar cututtuka da suka shafi mutuwa a cikin yankin. An yi musu hukunci, kuma an tuhumar al'amarin, tare da alƙali mai suna "kare hakkin dan Adam."
Kodayake waɗannan asasoshin suna kan ƙasa ta Amurka, "kare hakkin dan Adam" yana da kariyar ƙarar hukunci ga mutanen ƙasashen waje. Hynes ya bayyana tsibirin Okinawa a matsayin "tsibirin Pacific." Wannan tsibirin ya zama dumping ground for masu tsada baki mai guba irin su Agent Orange don shekaru da yawa. Rashin haɓaka daga asusun soja na Amurka a cikin tsibirin Amurka ya sa daruruwan wakilan Amurka da na Okinawans na kasar su zama marasa lafiya.
Mutanen Okinawa ba su da kwarewa wajen yaki da wadannan matakan da suka mutu. Duk da yake mai tsauraran matakan tsaro Hiroji Yamashiro na jiran shari'ar da ake zargi a kan laifuffuka, masu zanga-zanga sun fita kowace rana don magance fadada Marine Camp Camp Schwab. Ƙungiyoyin 'yan asalin irin waɗannan sune kisan kare dangi na kasa da kasa ga gwamnatin Amurka. Amma bisa mahimmanci, yana da mahimmanci ga jama'ar Amirka su ci gaba da haifar da mummunan tasirin da gwamnatin ta ke yi a farar hula.
Kamfanin dillancin labaran ya ci gaba da kira ga taron kasa da kasa game da asusun soja na kasashen waje da za a dauki bakuncin wani daga cikin kasashen da ke fama da yakin Amurka a kasar. Har ila yau, ya bukaci a kafa wata} ungiyar} asashen duniya da ke da ala} a da} asashen waje. Don ƙarin bayani da sabuntawa, je zuwa www.noforeignbases.org.
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Elliot Swain dan jariri ne mai kula da Baltimore, ɗaliban makarantar digiri na biyu da CODEPINK.
