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Amakhulu abantu ahlangane esontweni laseLondon ngoLwesine emngcwabeni womunye wabamnyama wokugcina I-Royal Air Force (RAF) abashayeli bezindiza abake balwa IMpi Yezwe II.
U-Flight Sergeant Peter Brown, owazalelwa eJamaica ngo-1926, wayengomunye walabo ababebizwa ngokuthi “Abashayeli bezindiza baseCaribbean,” iqembu lamavolontiya e-Afro-Caribbean RAF.
Umakadebona washona yedwa eneminyaka engu-96 ubudala emzini wakhe oseLondon ngoDisemba, ngokusho kwesikhungo sezindaba sase-United Kingdom i-PA Media.
Umngcwabo kaBrown ububanjelwe esontweni i-St. Clement Danes Church, esetshenziswa yi-RAF njengendawo yesikhumbuzo salabo abebekhonza, lapho ibhokisi lakhe belibekwe efulegini leNyunyana phambi kwamakhulu ezivakashi.
Lo mcimbi ekuqaleni wawuhlelelwe ukuthi ube yindaba ephansi, kwaze kwaba yilapho isikhalo somkhandlu wendawo sokunikeza umakadebona “ukuthunyelwa okufanele” okwengeziwe sathathwa abagcini bamarekhodi nosomlando, okwabe sekuthatha umbono womphakathi.
Selokhu kuphume lesi sikhalo, “kunomkhankaso wokuthungatha izihlobo zakhe emhlabeni wonke kanti inqwaba yabaholayo ilandelwe yizikhulu zomkhandlu kanye nezazi zozalo,” kusho uMkhandlu weDolobha laseWestminster. isitatimende ngo-April.
Unobhala wezokuvikela waseBrithani uBen Wallace, kanye namaLungu ePhalamende uTom Tugendhat noJohnny Mercer – abake basebenza kwezempi uqobo – babhale kuTwitter ukumeseka kwabo ngokuthola umndeni wakhe.
Ngemva kokuba abahleli “bechithiwe ngezicelo zokuya enkonzweni,” kwahlelwa usuku olusha nendawo “yokwamukela abaningi ababengabafisela okuhle” isicelo sase sifinyelelwe.
“Kwenziwe amalungiselelo okuqinisekisa ukuthi uMnu. Brown uthola ukuxoshwa okuhloniphekile okufanele umlando wempilo yakhe,” kusho isitatimende somkhandlu waseWestminster.
Amakhulu abantu ababekhala asabela obizweni, abaningi bandiza izinkulungwane zamakhilomitha ukuze bahloniphe.
UBrooke Alexander, oyisihlobo sikaBrown ethintwa ngesikhathi sokudlulisa icala, usuke eKingston, inhloko-dolobha yaseJamaica, ukuyothamela umngcwabo.
“USergeant wendiza uBrown uyisibonelo sokuzinikela kwabo bonke abasebenzi be-Commonwealth asebesebenze emlandweni we-RAF,” kusho umkhulumeli we-RAF.
UDonald Campbell, 71, ongumsunguli wenhlangano esiza abantulayo iThe Forgotten Generations kanye nowayengumshayeli wendiza i-RAF, utshele i-PA Media: “Ngesikhathi ngijoyina iRoyal Air Force ngeminyaka yawo-1970, ngangingazi ukuthi kukhona abantu base-Afrika nabaseCaribbean abafana noPeter Brown owayesebenza emhlabeni. War Two.”
“Ngifisa sengathi ngabe ngazi ngabantu abafana noPeter ngoba bekuzonginika ithemba lokuthi, okhokho bami balilwela leli zwe, abanye babo bafa, ngakho nginelungelo lokuba lapha,” kwengeza uCampbell enkampanini yezindaba. .
“Baningi kakhulu abakwaPeter Browns abazindaba zabo zizuzisa izizukulwane ezizayo.”
