Lebanon - Beirut: Kuki 'ammonium nitrate' yari ihunitse ku cyambu?
Liban iri mu cyunamo nyuma yuko abatari munsi ya 154 bishwe no guturika kw'ikinyabutabire cya 'nitrate d'ammonium' (ammonium nitrate) naho abagera ku 5,000 bagakomereka.
Beirut mbere na nyuma yo guturika Croix-Rouge ishami rikorera i Beirut mu murwa mukuru wa Liban, ivuga ko ubu iri gukorana na minisiteri y'ubuzima y'iki gihugu mu gushyiraho ubundi buruhukiro bw'abapfuye (morgues) bushya kuko ubusanzweho mu bitaro byaho bwarengewe ubushobozi. Papa Francis ari mu bihanganishije Abanya-Liban. Ibiro ntaramakuru AFP bisubiramo amagambo ya Marwan Aboud, Guverineri wa Beirut, avuga ko uko guturika kwasize "abantu 300,000 badafite aho kuba". Yongeyeho ko ibyangiritse bibarirwa agaciro kari hagati ya miliyari 3 na 5 z'amadolari y'Amerika. Gusa hari kwibazwa impamvu toni 2,750 za 'ammonium nitrate' zari zimaze imyaka itandatu zihunitse (zibitse) nabi ku cyambu. Lina Khatib akuriye gahunda zo mu burasirazuba bwo hagati n'Afurika y'amajyaruguru mu kigo Chatham House cyo mu Bwongereza gikora ubushakashatsi ku bibazo mpuzamahanga. Madamu Khatib yibaza impamvu icyo kinyabutabire gishibora guturika cyari kibitswe ku bwinshi ahantu hegeranye n'inzu zituwemo n'abantu. Yibajije ati: "Ni nde ucyeneye toni 2,750 za 'nitrate d'ammonium'?" Abantu biruka bajya kwihisha nyuma y'iturika ku cyambu cya Beirut "Birazwi ko iki kinyabutabire gikoreshwa mu gukora ibiturika ndetse biranazwi ko Hezbollah, umutwe witwaje intwaro wo muri Liban, ukunze gukora magendu y'ibintu nk'ibi ukabyinjiza muri Liban binyuze ku cyambu". "Rero birimo gushyira mu gaciro kuvuga ko Hezbollah ishobora kuba hari aho yaba ihuriye n'iyi 'nitrate d'ammonium' yaturikiye ku cyambu, ariko, birumvikana, haracyari kare cyane ho kubimenya". "Ariko byumvikane ko ibi atari ibintu bisanzwe. Urwego rw'ubuhinzi rwa Liban mu by'ukuri nta cyo rwungukiraga muri za toni z'ifumbire [nitrate d'ammonium ni n'ifumbire] zari zimaze imyaka itandatu ziryamye mu cyambu". Hassan Nasrallah, umukuru w'umutwe w'intagondwa wa Hezbollah, yahakanye ibirego byuko wari warabitse intwaro cyangwa amasasu kuri icyo cyambu. Na Perezida Michel Aoun wa Liban yanze ubusabe bw'iperereza mpuzamahanga ku cyateje uko guturika, avuga ko abategetsi ba Liban ubwabo bazagenzura niba kwaratewe no "kwivanga guturutse hanze", nk'urugero igisasu cya bombe. 'Nitrate d'ammonium' ni iki? Ni ikinyabutabire gifite ikirango (formule/formula) cya NH₄NO₃ Guturika kwacyo kw'ejo ku wa kabiri kwabaye nyuma yuko inzu ibikwamo ibicuruzwa bitandukanye - izi zizwi nka 'warehouse' cyangwa 'entrepôt' - cyari gihunitsemo, ifashwe n'inkongi y'umuriro. Cyaturikanye imbaraga kuburyo cyumvikanye kugeza no mu gihugu-kirwa cya Cyprus (Chypre) kiri mu ntera ya kilometero 240 uvuye aho. Amakuru avuga ko icyo kinyabutabire cyafatiwe mu bwato mu 2013. Bisa nkaho kuva icyo gihe cyari kibitswe aho ku cyambu. Ariko se ubundi 'nitrate d'ammonium' ni iki?