A kolbar from Saqqez was killed by border guard forces’ shooting at the Baneh border.
According to Kolbarnews, early this morning, Thursday, MAy 16, 2024, a young kolbar from Saqqez was killed by the shooting of border forces at the Hangejal border in Baneh.
The identity of this kolbar has been reported as “Vahid Ghaderpour,” son of Bayaz Ghaderpour, from the village of Darre Ziarat, a district of Saqqez.
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 and 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.
