Magazi Satsuka Magazi

Ndi Kathy Kelly, World BEYOND War, March 14, 2023

Kulengeza kodabwitsa kwa Marichi 10, 2023 kuti kazembe wamkulu waku China, Bambo Wang Yi, adathandizira mgwirizano pakati pa Saudi Arabia ndi Iran akuwonetsa kuti maulamuliro akulu atha kupindula pokhulupirira kuti, monga Albert Camus nthawi ina inati, “mawu ndi amphamvu kwambiri kuposa zida zankhondo.”

Lingaliroli lidavomerezedwanso ndi General Mark Milley, Wapampando wa US Joint Chiefs of Staff yemwe adati pa Januware 20.^th, 2023, kuti akukhulupirira kuti nkhondo ya Russia ku Ukraine itero kwanitsa ndi zokambirana osati pabwalo lankhondo. Mu Novembala 2022, adafunsidwa za chiyembekezo cha zokambirana ku Ukraine, Milley adati kukana kukambirana m’Nkhondo Yadziko Yoyamba inawonjezera kuvutika kwa anthu ndi kuvulaza ena mamiliyoni ambiri.

“Choncho ngati pali mwayi wokambilana, mtendere ukapezeka… gwirani mphindi,” Milley anauza Economic Club ya New York.

Zaka XNUMX zapitazo, ku Baghdad, ndinagawana malo okhala ndi anthu aku Iraq ndi mayiko ena mu hotelo yaing'ono, Al-Fanar, yomwe inali nyumba ya anthu ambiri. Mawu M'chipululu nthumwi zomwe zikuchita motsutsana ndi zilango zachuma zotsutsana ndi Iraq. Akuluakulu aboma la US adatiimba mlandu wopereka mankhwala ku zipatala zaku Iraq. Poyankha, tinawauza kuti timvetsetsa zilango zomwe amatiwopseza nazo (zaka khumi ndi ziwiri m'ndende ndi chindapusa cha $ 1 miliyoni), koma sitikanatha kulamulidwa ndi malamulo osalungama omwe amalanga ana. Ndipo tinaitana akuluakulu a boma kuti agwirizane nafe. M’malo mwake, tinagwirizana mosalekeza ndi magulu ena amtendere ofunitsitsa kuletsa nkhondo yomwe inali pafupi.

Chakumapeto kwa January 2003, ndinkayembekezerabe kuti nkhondo ingapewedwe. Lipoti la International Atomic Energy Agency inali pafupi. Zikadalengeza kuti Iraq ilibe zida zowononga anthu ambiri (WMD), ogwirizana ndi US atha kusiya mapulani oukira, ngakhale gulu lalikulu lankhondo lomwe timachitira umboni pawailesi yakanema wausiku. Kenako panadza msonkhano wa Mlembi wa boma Colin Powell, pa February 5, 2003, wa United Nations, pamene iye anaumiriza kuti Iraq analidi ndi WMD. Ulaliki wake unali potsirizira pake anatsimikizira kukhala achinyengo pachiwerengero chilichonse, koma mwatsoka zidapatsa United States kudalirika kokwanira kuti ipitirire ndi kampeni yake yophulitsa mabomba ya "Shock and Awe".

Kuyambira pakati pa mwezi wa March 2003, kuukira koopsa kwa ndege kunagonjetsa Iraq usana ndi usiku. Mu hotelo yathu, makolo ndi agogo anapemphera kuti apulumuke kuphulika kwa makutu ndi kuphulika koopsa. Mtsikana wina wazaka zisanu ndi zinayi wachangu, yemwe anali ndi chibwenzi, analephera kulamulira chikhodzodzo chake. Ana aang'ono ankapanga masewera otsanzira kulira kwa mabomba ndipo ankanamizira kugwiritsa ntchito tochi ting'onoting'ono ngati mfuti.

Gulu lathu linayendera zipatala komwe ana olumala ankabuula atachira atachitidwa maopaleshoni. Ndikukumbukira nditakhala pa benchi kunja kwa chipinda changozi. Pafupi ndi ine, mayi wina ananjenjemera akusisima akufunsa kuti, “Ndimuuza bwanji? Nditi chiyani?” Anafunika kuuza mwana wa mlongo wake amene anali kuchitidwa opaleshoni yamwadzidzidzi, kuti sanangotuluka manja onse aŵiri komanso kuti tsopano anali wachibale wake yekhayo amene anapulumuka. Bomba la US lidagunda banja la Ali Abbas pomwe amadya chakudya chamasana kunja kwa nyumba yawo. Dokotala wina wa opaleshoni pambuyo pake adanena kuti adamuuza kale Ali kuti adadula manja ake onse awiri. "Koma," Ali adamufunsa, "kodi ndidzakhala chonchi nthawi zonse?"

Ndinabwerera ku Al-Fanar Hotel madzulo amenewo nditakwiya kwambiri ndi manyazi. Ndili ndekha m’chipinda changa, ndinagogoda mtsamiro wanga, ndikung’ung’udza kuti, “Kodi tidzakhala chonchi nthaŵi zonse?”

Munthawi yonse ya Nkhondo Zamuyaya zazaka makumi awiri zapitazi, akuluakulu aku US omwe ali mgulu lankhondo lazachuma-Congressional-media awonetsa chidwi chofuna kumenya nkhondo. Nthaŵi zambiri salabadira chiwonongeko chimene amasiya pambuyo pa “kuthetsa” nkhondo yosankha.
Pambuyo pa nkhondo ya 2003 ya "Shock and Awe" ku Iraq, wolemba mabuku waku Iraq Sinan Antoon adapanga munthu wamkulu, Jawad, Wochapira Mitembo, amene anathedwa nzeru ndi kuchuluka kwa mitembo imene ayenera kuisamalira.

Jawad anati: “Ndinamva ngati takhudzidwa ndi chivomezi chomwe chasintha chilichonse. “Kwa zaka zambiri m’mbuyomo, tikanakhala tikungoyendayenda m’zibwinja zimene zinasiyidwa. M'mbuyomu panali mitsinje pakati pa ma Sunni ndi Shi͑ite, kapena gulu ili ndi ilo, lomwe limatha kuwoloka mosavuta kapena losawoneka nthawi zina. Tsopano, chivomezicho chitatha, dziko lapansi linali ndi ming'alu yonseyi ndipo mitsinjeyo inasanduka mitsinje. Mitsinjeyo inakhala mitsinje yodzaza ndi magazi, ndipo aliyense amene anayesa kuwoloka ankamira. Zithunzi za anthu a kutsidya lina la mtsinjewo zinali zitawonjezeredwa ndi kuwonongeka . . . makoma a konkire anakwera kuti atseke tsokalo.”

"Nkhondo ndi yoipa kuposa chivomezi," dokotala wa opaleshoni, Saeed Abuhassan, anandiuza panthawi ya bomba la Israeli la 2008-2009 ku Gaza, lotchedwa. Opaleshoni Ndikutsogolera. Iye ananena kuti opulumutsa amachokera padziko lonse pambuyo pa chivomezi, koma nkhondo zikayamba, maboma amangotumiza zida zambiri, zomwe zimatalikitsa ululu.

Iye anafotokoza zotsatira za zida zomwe zidapundula odwala omwe amachitidwa opaleshoni pachipatala cha Al-Shifa ku Gaza pamene mabomba akupitirira kugwa. Zophulika zazitsulo zowuma kudula miyendo ya anthu m'njira zomwe madokotala sangathe kuzikonza. Zidutswa za bomba la phosphorous zoyera, zoyikidwa pansi pakhungu m'thupi la munthu, zimapitilirabe kuyaka zikakumana ndi okosijeni, zomwe zimapatsa maopaleshoni omwe akuyesa kuchotsa zinthu zoyipazo.

"Mukudziwa, chinthu chofunikira kwambiri chomwe mungauze anthu m'dziko lanu ndikuti anthu aku US adalipira zida zambiri zomwe zimagwiritsidwa ntchito kupha anthu ku Gaza," adatero Abuhassan. "Ndipo ichi ndi chifukwa chake chiri choyipa kuposa chivomezi."

Pamene dziko likulowa m'chaka chachiwiri cha nkhondo pakati pa Ukraine ndi Russia, ena akuti n'zosamveka kuti omenyera mtendere azidandaula kuti athetse nkhondo ndi kukambirana mwamsanga. Kodi ndi chinthu chaulemu kwambiri kuonera kuunjika kwa matumba a mitembo, maliro, kukumba manda, matauni akukhala osatha kukhalamo, ndi kuwonjezereka kumene kungayambitse nkhondo yapadziko lonse kapenanso nkhondo yankhondo?

Makanema apawailesi aku US samakonda kucheza ndi pulofesa Noam Chomsky, yemwe kusanthula kwake mwanzeru komanso mwanzeru kumadalira mfundo zosatsutsika. Mu June 2022, miyezi inayi mu nkhondo ya Russia-Ukraine, Chomsky analankhula mwa njira ziwiri, imodzi kukhala kukambirana mwamtendere. Iye anati: “Chinacho n’kungochikoka n’kuona mmene aliyense adzavutikire, anthu angati a ku Ukraine adzafa, Russia idzavutika bwanji, ndi mamiliyoni angati amene adzafa ndi njala ku Asia ndi ku Africa. tipitirizabe kutenthetsa chilengedwe mpaka kufika pamene sipadzakhalanso mwayi wokhala ndi moyo wa munthu.”

UNICEF malipoti mmene miyezi ya chiwonongeko chowonjezereka ndi kusoŵa kwawo ikukhudzira ana a ku Ukraine: “Ana akupitirizabe kuphedwa, kuvulazidwa, ndi kupwetekedwa mtima kwambiri ndi chiwawa chimene chachititsa kuti anthu asamuke pamlingo waukulu ndi liwiro limene silinaonekepo chiyambire Nkhondo Yadziko II. Sukulu, zipatala ndi zida zina za anthu wamba zomwe amadalira zikupitiriza kuonongeka kapena kuwonongedwa. Mabanja alekana ndipo miyoyo yapatukana.”

Ziwerengero za Russian ndi Ukraine ovulala pankhondo zimasiyanasiyana, koma ena amanena kuti asilikali oposa 200,000 kumbali zonse ziwiri aphedwa kapena kuvulala.

Pokonzekera kuchita chiwembu chachikulu chisanachedwe kasupe, boma la Russia linalengeza kuti litero kulipira bonasi kwa asitikali omwe amawononga zida zogwiritsidwa ntchito ndi asitikali aku Ukraine omwe adatumizidwa kuchokera kunja. Bhonasi ya ndalama zamagazi ikuzizira, koma pamlingo wokulirapo, opanga zida zazikulu apeza "mabonasi" okhazikika kuyambira pomwe nkhondo idayamba.

M’chaka chatha chokha, United States kutumizidwa $27.5 biliyoni pothandizira asitikali ku Ukraine, kupereka "magalimoto okhala ndi zida, kuphatikiza onyamula zida za Stryker, magalimoto omenyera makanda a Bradley, magalimoto otetezedwa a Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected, ndi High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled." Phukusili linaphatikizansopo chithandizo chachitetezo cha ndege ku Ukraine, zida zowonera usiku, ndi zida zazing'ono.

Pasanapite nthawi maiko aku Western adagwirizana kutumiza akasinja apamwamba a Abrams ndi Leopard ku Ukraine, mlangizi wa Unduna wa Zachitetezo ku Ukraine, Yuriy Sak, analankhula molimba mtima za kupeza ndege zankhondo za F-16 kenako. “Sanafune kutipatsa zida zankhondo zazikulu, ndiye anatero. Iwo sanafune kutipatsa ife machitidwe a Himars, ndiye iwo anatero. Sanafune kutipatsa matanki, tsopano akutipatsa matanki. Kupatula zida za nyukiliya, palibe chomwe sitingapeze, "adauza Reuters.

Ukraine sizingatheke kupeza zida za nyukiliya, koma ngozi ya nkhondo ya nyukiliya inali kufotokozedwa mu Bulletin ya Atomic Scientists mawu pa Januware 24, omwe adakhazikitsa Wotchi ya Doomsday Clock ya 2023 kukhala masekondi makumi asanu ndi anayi asanafike "pakati pausiku". Asayansi anachenjeza kuti zotulukapo za nkhondo ya Russia ndi Ukraine sizingowonjezera kuwonjezereka kochititsa mantha kwa ngozi ya nyukiliya; amalepheretsanso ntchito zapadziko lonse zolimbana ndi kusintha kwa nyengo. Lipotilo linati: “Maiko amene amadalira mafuta ndi gasi aku Russia ayesetsa kupezerapo mwayi pa zinthu zosiyanasiyana zomwe amawagawira ndi kuwagawira, zomwe zachititsa kuti achulukitse ndalama za gasi wachilengedwe panthawi yomwe ndalamazo zimayenera kucheperachepera.”

Mary Robinson, yemwe kale anali Commissioner wa UN woona za Ufulu Wachibadwidwe, akuti Wotchi ya Doomsday Clock imamveka ngati chenjezo kwa anthu onse. Iye anati: “Tili m’mphepete mwa phiri. "Koma atsogoleri athu sakuchita mwachangu kapena mokulira kuti ateteze dziko lamtendere komanso lokhalamo. Kuchokera pakuchepetsa kutulutsa mpweya wa carbon mpaka kulimbikitsa mapangano oletsa zida komanso kuyika ndalama pokonzekera miliri, tikudziwa zoyenera kuchita. Sayansi ndi yomveka, koma chifuniro cha ndale chikusowa. Izi ziyenera kusintha mu 2023 ngati tikufuna kupewa ngozi. Tikukumana ndi zovuta zambiri. Atsogoleri amafunikira malingaliro azovuta. ”

Monga ife tonse. Wotchi ya Doomsday ikuwonetsa kuti tikukhala pa nthawi yobwereka. Sitiyenera “kukhala chonchi nthawi zonse.”

Pazaka khumi zapitazi, ndinali ndi mwayi wochereza alendo ambiri ku Kabul, Afghanistan, ndi achinyamata a ku Afghanistan omwe amakhulupirira ndi mtima wonse kuti mawu angakhale amphamvu kuposa zida. Iwo anachirikiza mwambi wosavuta, wotsimikizirika wakuti: “Magazi satsuka mwazi.”

Tili ndi ngongole kwa mibadwo yamtsogolo kuyesetsa kusiya nkhondo zonse ndikuteteza dziko lapansi.

Kathy Kelly, wolimbikitsa mtendere komanso wolemba, amagwirizanitsa bungwe la Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal ndipo ndi purezidenti wa board. World BEYOND War.