On Wednesday, April 17, 2024, a young Kolbar from Saqqez was injured in a pursuit by regime military forces, sustaining wounds to the leg.
According to Kolbernews, regime military forces at the border in Baneh engaged in pursuit of a group of Kolbars, resulting in the injury of one Kolbar identified as “Mohammad Rahimi,” who sustained leg injuries after falling to the ground.
It’s worth mentioning that Kolbernews had previously reported on the 48-hour disappearance of this Kolbar. After being injured in the leg, he was unable to return from the border area for 48 hours.
According to the statistics recorded in Kolbarnews in the year 1402, a total of 444 Kolbars in the border areas and inter-provincial routes between West Azerbaijan, Kurdistan, and Kermanshah provinces were killed or injured due to factors such as direct shooting by regime military forces, avalanches, frostbite, stepping on mines, falling from mountains and heights, and other causes. Out of this total number, 44 Kolbars were killed, equivalent to 10%, and 400 Kolbars were injured, equivalent to 90%. Out of the total 444 Kolbars killed or injured in the year 1402, a total of 373 cases, equivalent to 84%, were due to direct shooting by military forces.
Additionally, out of the total 444 Kolbars killed or injured in the border strip of Kurdistan in the year 1402, 37 of them are children under 18 years old.
In the year 1402, we witnessed a 90% increase in the killing and injuring of Kolbars in the border strip of Kurdistan.
