aujourd’hui<\/a>, Robert Fisk consacre un long article \u00e0 ce ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne. Nous donnons ici le passage qui fournit des \u00e9l\u00e9ments chiffr\u00e9s impressionnants pour appr\u00e9cier l’importance quantitative du suicide dans les \u00e9v\u00e9nements politico-militaires que nous connaissons, essentiellement en Irak, bien s\u00fbr. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00ab[A] month-long investigation by The Independent, culling four Arabic-language newspapers, official Iraqi statistics, two Beirut news agencies and Western reports, shows that an incredible 1,121 Muslim suicide bombers have blown themselves up in Iraq. This is a very conservative figure and given the propensity of the authorities (and of journalists) to report only those suicide bombings that kill dozens of people the true estimate may be double this number. On several days, six even nine suicide bombers have exploded themselves in Iraq in a display of almost Wal-Mart availability. If life in Iraq is cheap, death is cheaper.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThis is perhaps the most frightening and ghoulish legacy of George Bush’s invasion of Iraq five years ago. Suicide bombers in Iraq have killed at least 13,000 men, women and children our most conservative estimate gives a total figure of 13,132 and wounded a minimum of 16,112 people. If we include the dead and wounded in the mass stampede at the Baghdad Tigris river bridge in the summer of 2005 caused by fear of suicide bombers the figures rise to 14,132 and 16,612 respectively. Again, it must be emphasised that these statistics are minimums. For 529 of the suicide bombings in Iraq, no figures for wounded are available. Where wounded have been listed in news reports as several, we have made no addition to the figures. And the number of critically injured who later died remains unknown. Set against a possible death toll of half a million Iraqis since the March 2003 invasion, the suicide bombers’ victims may appear insignificant; but the killers’ ability to terrorise civilians, militiamen and Western troops and mercenaries is incalculable.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbNever before has the Arab world witnessed a phenomenon of suicide-death on this scale. During Israel’s occupation of Lebanon after 1982, one Hizbollah suicide-bombing a month was considered remarkable. During the Palestinian intifadas of the 1980s and 1990s, four per month was regarded as unprecedented. But suicide bombers in Iraq have been attacking at the average rate of two every three days since the 2003 Anglo-American invasion.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbAnd, although neither the Iraqi government nor their American mentors will admit this, scarcely 10 out of more than a thousand suicide killers have been identified. We know from their families that Palestinians, Saudis, Syrians and Algerians have been among the bombers. In a few cases, we have names. But in most attacks, the authorities in Iraq if they can still be called authorities after five years of catastrophe have no idea to whom the bloodied limbs and headless torsos of the bombers belong.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbEven more profoundly disturbing is that the cult of the suicide bomber has seeped across national frontiers. Within a year of the Iraqi invasion, Afghan Taliban bombers were blowing themselves up alongside Western troops or bases in Helmand province and in the capital Kabul. The practice leached into Pakistan, striking down thousands of troops and civilians, killing even the principal opposition leader, Benazir Bhutto. The London Tube and bus bombings despite the denials of Tony Blair were obviously deeply influenced by events in Iraq.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tFisk appuie \u00e9videmment son article sur une longue r\u00e9flexion sur le ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne du suicide, qui traduit ses conceptions et sa perception, qui ne sont pas n\u00e9cessairement les n\u00f4tres. Ce qui nous \u00e9tonne en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral le plus, c’est notre \u00e9tonnement (\u00e0 nous, Occidentaux) devant cette attitude du suicide, ce dont le texte de Fisk se fait le reflet dans sa tonalit\u00e9 g\u00e9n\u00e9rale. (Il ne s’agit donc pas d’une position politique, puisque Fisk est en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral un adversaire d\u00e9termin\u00e9 de la politique belliciste et expansionniste de l’Ouest, dont le moins qu’on puisse dire est qu’elle tient une place fondamentale dans l’explication objective qu’on peut donner \u00e0 la prolif\u00e9ration du comportement.) Il nous para\u00eet \u00e9vident que le ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne du suicide comme arme de guerre doit aussi bien susciter une r\u00e9flexion sur notre<\/strong> civilisation et sur nos<\/strong> conceptions que sur la psychologie et la culture de ceux qui le pratiquent, et que toutes ces r\u00e9flexions sont n\u00e9cessairement li\u00e9es entre elles.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 14 mars 2008 \u00e0 11H40<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Le suicide est devenu un ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne important dans les \u00e9v\u00e9nements politico-militaires de ces derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es, par son r\u00f4le central dans l’acte des attaques suicides (ce que les Anglo-Saxons nomment suicide bomber). Les guillemets que nous mettons dans ce cas au mot suicide indiquent la complexit\u00e9 de la chose et la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 o\u00f9 l’on se trouve… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3311,5701,857,5491],"class_list":["post-69752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-fisk","tag-g4g","tag-irak","tag-suicide"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}