Ndi Elliot Swain, January 15, 2018
Pa January 13-15, 2018, msonkhano ku Baltimore pa mabungwe achimuna a ku United States ochokera kumayiko ena anasonkhanitsa pamodzi mawu omenyana ndi nkhondo ochokera padziko lonse lapansi. Okhululukira adapeza zoopsya zambiri zomwe asilikali a United States ali nawo-kuchokera ku ulamuliro wa dziko kupita ku chilengedwe ndi thanzi labwino.
Makamu a usilikali a US kudziko lachilendo ndi mbiri yonyansa yakupha anthu a ku United States omwe akuchokera ku nkhondo ya Spanish-American ndi dziko la US ku Philippines ndi Cuba. Zina zambiri zinamangidwa panthawi ya nkhondo yachiwiri ya padziko lonse komanso nkhondo ya ku Korea, ndipo ilipobe lero. Kutsekedwa kwa maziko amenewa kungasonyeze kuti kudalirika kwa mbiri yakale ya nkhondo zamagazi, zamtengo wapatali komanso zowonjezera pokhapokha atatsimikiza kuti anthu onse adzikhazikitsidwa. Mauthenga ochokera ku Japan, Korea, African, Australia ndi Puerto Rico akutsutsana pamsonkhanowu adasonkhana pamsonkhanowu kuti adziwe mgwirizanowu ndi kukonza tsogolo lamtendere.
Moyenerera, msonkhano unayanjanitsidwa ndi 16th chikumbutso cha kutsegulidwa kwa ndende ku Guantanamo Bay, ku Cuba. Awonetsero anasonkhana kunja kwa White House pa January 11 kuti afune kumasulidwa kwa akaidi a 41 omwe adasungidwa popanda mlandu m'ndende yomwe Purezidenti wakale Obama adalonjeza kutseka. Koma pokhala mpando wapampando wa National Network ku Cuba Cheryl LaBash adati, "Guantanamo sichiposa ndende." Ndipotu gulu la asilikali la Guantanamo ndilo gulu lakale la asilikali a United States kudziko lachilendo, lomwe lili ndi ulamuliro wamuyaya ku 1901 pansi pa neocolonial Platt Amendment.
Pulogalamu yotsekera kundende ya Guantanamo yoletsedwa ndi yonyansa ikugwirizana ndi nkhondo yowonjezereka yopitanso ku Cuba. Mbiri ya Guantanamo imasonyeza momwe nkhanza za nkhondo zamakono zikutsatira mfundo zonyansa za zaka makumi asanu ndi ziwiri zadziko la America.
Msonkhanowu unaperekanso mndandanda waukulu ku zotsatira zowopsya za zankhondo zapanyumba ndi zakunja zokhudzana ndi chilengedwe komanso zaumoyo. Malinga ndi pulofesa wa zaumoyo, Patricia Hynes, a ambiri a malo opezera ndalama padziko lonse lapansi - malo omwe EPA amazindikira kuti akuyika pachiwopsezo ku thanzi kapena chilengedwe - ndi magulu ankhondo akunja. Pat Elder wochokera mgulu la World Without War adawonetsa momwe Navy's Allegheny Ballistic Center ku West Virginia nthawi zonse imatulutsa trichlorethylene, carcinogen yodziwika, m'madzi apansi a Potomac. Naval War Center ku Dahlgren, Virginia yakhala ikuwotcha zinyalala zowopsa kwazaka 70.
Ufulu wa usilikali ndi kusayenerera kwa umoyo waumphawi umaperekedwa muzitsulo chakuthwa ndi mlandu wa Fort Detrick ku Maryland. Asilikaliwa adataya sludge m'madzi a pansi, omwe a Frederick amanena kuti akuphatikizidwa ndi matenda okhudza khansa m'deralo. Iwo adatsutsa, ndipo mlanduwu unachotsedwa, ndi woweruza akulongosola "chitetezo chautetezo."
Ngakhale kuti maziko amenewo ali pa nthaka ya United States, "chitetezo chodziletsa" chimangowonjezera chigamulo cha anthu amitundu yachilendo .. Hynes analongosola kuti chilumba cha Okinawa ndi "chida chopanda kanthu cha Pacific". Mankhwala oopsa a poizoni monga Agent Orange kwa zaka makumi angapo. Kuwonongeka kwa chilengedwe kuchokera ku zankhondo za ku America pachilumbachi kwachititsa anthu ambiri ku United States kuti apitirizebe kudwala kwambiri.
Anthu a ku Okinawa akhalabe olimba pomenyana ndi zowawa izi. Ngakhale mtsogoleri wa dziko lino, Hiroji Yamashiro, akudikira mlandu pa milandu yonyenga, amatsutsa tsiku lililonse kuti athe kutsutsana ndi kukula kwa nyanja ya Camp Schwab. Kusuntha kwachikhalidwe monga awa ndi moyo wa mayiko otsutsana ndi ufumu wa US. Koma kwenikweni, ndizofunikira kuti Achimerika awononge mphamvu za nkhondo za kunja kwa boma lawo.
Msonkhanowo unatha ndi pempho la msonkhano wapadziko lonse ku maziko apachilendo akunja kuti akalandidwe ndi amodzi mwa mayiko omwe akulimbana ndi nkhondo ya US kudziko lawo. Izi zinapanganso kukhazikitsa mgwirizano wadziko lonse wotsutsana ndi zida zankhondo zakunja. Kuti mudziwe zambiri ndi zosintha, pitani ku www.noforeignbases.org.
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Elliot Swain ndi wotsutsa malingaliro a Baltimore, wophunzira maphunziro omaliza maphunziro ndi ophunzirira ndi CODEPINK.
