On Saturday, June 29, 2024, regime border guards tortured a Kolbar, stole his belongings, and then shot him with a pellet gun.
According to Kolbarnews, regime border guards in the “HangeJal” border area of Baneh arrested Sherzad Chawshini, a 34-year-old Kolbar from Baneh. After physically torturing him, they confiscated his mobile phone and $1,230. The border guards then shot him in the back with a pellet gun.
A source close to this Kolbar told Kolbarnews that Mr. Chavoshini sustained severe injuries to his thigh, buttocks, and abdomen and is currently receiving treatment at a medical center in Baneh.
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.
