On Friday, April 19, 1403, at the Baneh border, Iraqi border guards detained Kolbars and simultaneously shot and killed their horses.
According to Kolbarnews, the Iraqi central government’s border guards (Border Guards) detained some Kurdish Kolbars and simultaneously shot and killed their horses and pack animals with bullets in the border area of Baneh.
The identities and number of detained Kolbars are under investigation.
This incident occurs while earlier, Iraqi border guards had also detained, beaten, and humiliated Kurdish Kolbars. Additionally, on January 22, 2023, Iraqi border guards shot at Kolbars, resulting in the death of one Kolbar named “Houshiar Mahmoudi” and injuring another.
Kolbarnews, while condemning these actions, considers them part of the security agreements between the military forces of the fascist regimes of the Islamic Republic of Iran and Iraq against the people of Kurdistan.
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.
