On Monday, July 15, 2024, regime military forces in the Baneh border region shot and injured one Kolbar.
According to Kolbarnews, the regime’s border forces in Baneh directly targeted a kolbar named Sirvan Rasouli, a 32-year-old resident of Baneh, with a Kalashnikov rifle, and injured him.
This report indicates that Sirvan Rasouli was initially beaten by the regime’s military forces before being shot.
Kolbarnews had previously reported the killing and wounding of 15 other Kolbars over the past 10 days.
According to statistics recorded by Kolbarnews, in the first six months of 2024, a total of 270 Kolbars in the border areas and inter-road routes of West Azerbaijan, Kurdistan, and Kermanshah provinces were killed or injured due to factors such as direct shooting by the regime’s military forces, avalanches and frostbite, stepping on mines, falling from mountains and heights, and other incidents.
Out of this number, a total of 34 Kolbars (13%) were killed and 236 Kolbars (87%) were injured.
Of the 270 Kolbars who were killed or injured in the first six months of 2024, a total of 222 cases (82%) were due to direct shooting or beatings by the regime’s military forces.
Additionally, of the 270 Kolbars who were killed or injured in the first six months of 2024 in the Kurdish border region, 20 of them were children under the age of 18.
Comparing the statistics of the first six months of 2024 with the same period in 2023, we have witnessed a 218% increase in the killing and injuring of Kolbarn in the Kurdish border region.
