A Kolbar from Sanandaj, has been beaten and injured by border forces in the border region of Hawraman.
According to Kolbarnews, on the evening of Friday, September 13, 2024, border forces in the Hawraman border area detained and assaulted the Kolbar, causing injuries.
The identity of the Kolbar has been confirmed as Abdulrahman Gholami, approximately 35 years old, from the village of Sarhoveh in the Javanroud district of Sanandaj.
According to the reports, Gholami sustained injuries to his head, face, thigh, and leg.
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.