Nhoroondo: Bruce Kent

naTim Devereux, Kubvisa Hondo, June 11, 2022

Muna 1969, Bruce akashanyira Biafra pakakwirira yeNigerian Civil War - yaive Mugwagwa wake weDhamasiko. Akaona nzara huru yevagari vemo vaishandiswa sechombo chehondo apo hurumende yeBritain yakapa zvombo kuhurumende yeNigeria. "Hapana chimwe chiitiko muhupenyu hwangu chakamborodza pfungwa dzangu nekukurumidza ... ndakatanga kunzwisisa kuti vane hutsinye vanogona kuita sei kana zvishuwo zvikuru semafuta nekutengeserana zviri mungozi. Ndakatanga kuonawo kuti kutaura zvakasimba nezvekubvisa urombo pasina kutarisana nenyaya dzechiuto kuzvinyengera uye kuzvinyengedza vamwe.”

Pamberi peBiafra, kurerwa kwakajairika kweboka repakati kwakanga kwamuendesa kuStonyhurst School, kuchiteverwa nemakore maviri National Service muRoyal Tank Regiment uye dhigirii reMutemo paOxford. Akadzidzira hupirisita, uye akagadzwa muna 1958. Mushure mekushanda semuchengeti, kutanga muKensington, ndokuzoita Ladbroke Grove, akava Archbishop Heenan's Private Secretary kubva 1963 kusvika 1966. Panguva iyoyo Monsignor, Bruce akagadzwa Chaplain kuYunivhesiti ye Vadzidzi veLondon, uye akavhura Chaplaincy muGower Street. Mabasa ake erunyararo nebudiriro akawedzera. Pakazosvika 1973, paCampaign for Nuclear Disarmament kufora, aibvisa huipi kubva kuPolaris nuclear submarine base paFaslane - "Kubva pakuda kuponda, Ishe Akanaka, tinunurei."

Pakusiya Chaplaincy muna 1974, akashandira Pax Christi kwemakore matatu, asati ava Mufundisi weParish kuSt Aloysius kuEuston. Vari ikoko vakave Sachigaro weCND, kusvika 1980, pavakasiya paramende kuti vave Munyori Mukuru weCND.

Yakanga iri nguva inokosha. Mutungamiri Reagan, Prime Minister Thatcher neMutungamiri Brezhnev vakaita bellicose rhetoric apo divi rega rega rakatanga kuendesa mabhomba echikepe aine zvombo zvenyukireya zvine hungwaru. Bato rinopesana nenyukireya rakakura uye rakakura - uye muna 1987, Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty yakasainwa. Panguva iyoyo, Bruce aive zvakare Sachigaro weCND. Mumakore gumi aya ane mhirizhonga, akasiya hupirisita pane kutevedzera kuraira kwaCardinal Hume kuti arege kupinda musarudzo dzemuna 1987 UK.

Muna 1999 Bruce Kent aive murongi weBritish weHague Appeal for Peace, musangano wepasi rose we10,000-simba muThe Hague, uyo akatanga danidziro huru (semuenzaniso kurwisa zvombo zvidiki, kushandiswa kwemasoja evana, uye kukurudzira dzidzo yerunyararo). Zvakanga zviri izvi, pamwe chete naProfessor Rotblat's Nobel yekugamuchira kutaura kunodaidzira kupera kwehondo pachayo, izvo zvakamukurudzira kuti amise muUK Movement for the Abolition of War. Pamberi pevakawanda murunyararo uye nharaunda mafambiro, akaona kuti haugone kuwana rugare pasina zvakare kushanda kudzivirira Kuchinja Kwemamiriro ekunze - akave nechokwadi chekuti vhidhiyo yeMAW "Conflict & Climate Change" yakaona chiedza chezuva mu2013.

Bruce akaroora Valerie Flessati muna 1988; semuratidziri werunyararo iye pachake, vakaita pairing ine simba, vachishanda pamwechete pamapurojekiti mazhinji anosanganisira London Peace Trail uye Peace History Conferences. Semurwi werunyararo, kunyangwe achembera, Bruce aigara achida kukwira chitima kune rumwe rutivi rwenyika kuti ataure kumusangano. Dai akambosangana newe, aizoziva zita rako. Pamwe chete nokuonesa upenzi noutere hwezvombo zvenyukireya muhurukuro dzake, kazhinji kazhinji aizodudza Chibatanwa chaMarudzi, kazhinji kazhinji kutiyeuchidza nezveSumo yeChata: “Isu vanhu veSangano Romubatanidzwa Wenyika Dzapasi Pose takatsunga kuponesa zvizvarwa zvinotevera kubva munyika. dambudziko rehondo, iro kaviri muhupenyu hwedu rakaunza kusuwa kusingaverengeki kuvanhu…”

Aikurudzira - zvese nemuenzaniso, uye nehunyanzvi hwake hwekukurudzira vanhu kuti vabatanidzwe, uye kuti vabudirire kupfuura zvavaifunga kuti vaigona. Aive shasha, aifara uye akangwara . Achasuwa zvikuru nevanorwira runyararo muBritain nepasirese. Mudzimai wake, Valerie, nehanzvadzi yake, Rosemary, vanopona paari.

Tim Devereux