Eastern Port yeSpain yakanzi 'pakati penzvimbo dzine njodzi zvakanyanya pasirese' nesangano repasi rese rekutsvagisa rinotevera kukura kwezvombo zvidiki nehutsotsi.
Mumushumo waro wemusi wa31 Zvita 2009, Small Arms Survey yekuSwitzerland yakaongorora kuwedzera kwezvikwata zvematsotsi uye mhondi dzinonzi dzematsotsi muTrinidad neTobago uye dzakagumisa kuti matambudziko epfuti aisazopera. Mushumo wamapeji 53 une musoro unoti “Hakuna Mamwe Mapoka Oupenyu, Pfuti uye Utongi muTrinidad neTobago.”
Inovhura nengano yegororo inozivikanwa uye dzimwe nguva mukomana wegoridhe wezvematongerwo enyika Sean “Bill” Francis akapfurwa gore rapfuura, mutumbi wake wakazara mabara makumi mashanu. Ichi chikamu chemushumo, anodaro munyori, Dorn Townsend, anoitirwa "kumisa chiitiko."
Townsend inopenda mufananidzo wakashata wenyika yakapfuma asi ine huwori, yakaparadzaniswa uye kazhinji "yekunze-yayo" nyika yechitsuwa inoita kunge iri kudonha isati yatombowana nyasha.
Vachitaura muchidimbu chemukuru webepa kuti mhondi dzine chekuita nepfuti dzakawedzera kakapetwa kaviri mumakore gumi apfuura, Townsend inoenderera mberi muchitsauko chinotevera kurangarira pakutanga kwezana ramakore rechi1,000, T&T yakabairirwa kuve chishongo cheCaribbean. nzvimbo yekugadzikana kwehama.
“Izvozvi hazvisisirizvo,” akadaro. Gwaro iri rinobva paruzivo rwakatorwa kubva munzvimbo dzakasiyana siyana dzemuno, dzinosanganisira vezvenhau, mapurisa, mapurofesa emayunivhesiti nemasangano akazvimirira.
“Chiitiko ichi hachisati chiri ‘nzvimbo yehondo ‘se‘Wild West,’ uye hakusi kuwedzeredza kutaura kuti nharaunda dzine urombo dzemuguta reTrinidad, zvikurukuru, dzazova mhandu yokusateerera mutemo sezvo mapoka anorwisana ari kurwira kutonga nharaunda umo. zvinodhaka zvinotengeswa,” rakadaro gwaro racho.
Townsend akati kuputika kwerudzi urwu rwemhosva kwakaitika panguva yekusimudzira hupfumi husingaenzaniswi uye kusvika pakudonha kwehupfumi hwa2008/2009, T&T yakanakidzwa nekumwe kusimba kwehupfumi hwenyika.
“Zvikuru,” Townsend akadaro, “chisimba chiri kuitika pakati pevarombo venyika, vomumaguta, vomuAfrica panzvimbo pavagari vayo vokuIndia kana kuti vokuCaucasus. Zvikurukuru, vatema vomuguta ndivo vanyajambwa.”
Chirevo ichi chinoreva kana kutarisa, mune akati wandei, panzvimbo dzinozivikanwa munharaunda senzvimbo dzinopisa, dzakadai seLaventille neGonzales, uye inotaura nezvekuedza kwenharaunda nevatungamiriri vemachechi kuunza runyararo munzvimbo idzi.
Asi, Townsend akati: “Nzanga yeT&T kunyange idiki muhukuru yakaoma zvakanyanya, zvekuti masimba akasiyana anosimuka achipokana nekuedza kuvandudza.
Achiongorora hukama hunonzi uye hunozivikanwa pakati pevatungamiriri vezvematongerwo enyika nevatungamiriri vezvikwata zvematsotsi, Townsend akati, "Vakapfekawo, kana kuti vakapfeka zvakavanda, vachipesana nedzvinyiriro dzakadaro dzekudzikama vatungamiriri vemapato ezvematongerwo enyika vanokudziridza kufarirwa nezvikwata."
Townsend akagumisa, kuti: “Masimba ari pamusoro apa anofambira mberi uye anodzokera shure anongoratidzira bedzi zviri kuitika pamusoro pezvikwata nepfuti muT&T. Zvimwe zviratidzo zvematambudziko zvinogona kuunzwa kumberi. Nekudaro, vane hanya vanogona kugadzira zano rinoshanda rerunyararo vachidzora zvinhu zvechisimba chiripo.
Chero zvazvingava, matambudziko enyika papfuti haasi kuzopera. Matanho anoitwa nehurumende okutsigira vatevedzeri vemitemo uye kuderedza kubiwa kwechitsotsi ari kukanganiswa nokuipa kwemafungiro evagari vemo, kureva kuti vagari vemo vanoshora zvikuru kukwanisa kweHurumende kugadzirisa bongozozo rinokonzerwa nepfuti nezvikwata zvematsotsi.”
The Small Arms Survey ipurojekiti yakazvimirira yekutsvagisa iri paGraduate Institute of International and Developmental Studies muGeneva, Switzerland.
Yakavambwa muna 1999 uye inotsigirwa neSwiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairsn ichitsigirwa nezvipo kubva kuhurumende dzeBelgium, Canada, Finland, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden neUK.
Chinangwa chepurojekiti, pakati pezvimwe, ndechekushanda senzvimbo huru yeruzivo rweveruzhinji pamusoro pese kwezvombo zvidiki nechisimba chepfuti, senzvimbo yezvishandiso yehurumende, vanogadzira mitemo, vaongorori nevaratidziri, kutarisa zvirongwa zvemunyika nekunze (hurumende). uye kwete) pamaoko madiki.
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- Stating in the paper's executive summary that gun-related homicides have increased 1,000-fold in the last decade, Townsend goes on in the next chapter to recall at the start of the 21st century, T&T was pegged to be the jewel of the Caribbean, a haven of relative stability.
- The project's objective is, among others, to serve as the principal source of public information on all aspects of small arms and armed violence, as a resource centre for governments, policy-makers, researchers and activists, to monitor national and international initiatives (governmental and non) on small arms.
- “This scene is not so much a ‘war zone ‘as a ‘Wild West,' and it is no exaggeration to say that poor urban areas of Trinidad, in particular, have become magnets for lawlessness as rival gangs vie for control of territory where drugs are sold,” the report said.
