Military forces detained three kolbars at the Baneh border and imposed fines on them.
According to Kolbarnews, on Tuesday evening, April 23, 2024, military forces stationed along the border in Baneh, as part of their systematic violence and suppression against kolbars, arrested three kolbars identified as “Ali Karimian,” “Khaled Mahmoudi,” and “Saadollah Aminzadeh,” all from the village of “Boalhasan” in the vicinity of Baneh.
These kolbars were detained by regime military forces on charges of smuggling.
Local sources report that after these kolbars appeared in court on Wednesday, April 24, 2024, they were fined 30 million tomans.
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.
