At least five Kolbars were injured as a result of gunfire by border forces along the Baneh border area.
According to Kolbarnews, on Thursday, August 8, 2024, border forces opened fire on a group of Kolbars in the HangeJal border region of Baneh, severely wounding at least five of them.
The identity of one of the injured Kolbars has been reported as “Kamal” (last name unknown), while the identities of the other injured Kolbars are still being investigated.
Earlier reports from Kolbarnews confirmed that another injured Kolbar was identified as “Rezgar Khelkani,” the son of Ali, a resident of Sardasht, who is married and has one child.
According to statistics recorded by Kolbarnews, in the first six months of 2024, a total of 270 Kolbars in the border areas and inter-road routes of West Azerbaijan, Kurdistan, and Kermanshah provinces were killed or injured due to factors such as direct shooting by the regime’s military forces, avalanches and frostbite, stepping on mines, falling from mountains and heights, and other incidents.
Out of this number, a total of 34 Kolbars (13%) were killed and 236 Kolbars (87%) were injured.
Of the 270 Kolbars who were killed or injured in the first six months of 2024, a total of 222 cases (82%) were due to direct shooting or beatings by the regime’s military forces.
Additionally, of the 270 Kolbars who were killed or injured in the first six months of 2024 in the Kurdish border region, 20 of them were children under the age of 18.
Comparing the statistics of the first six months of 2024 with the same period in 2023, we have witnessed a 218% increase in the killing and injuring of Kolbarn in the Kurdish border region.
