A Kolbar from the Kurdistan Region of Iraq lost his life after border forces opened fire on a group of Kolbars in the border area of Hawraman.
According to Kolbarnews, on Sunday, August 18, 2024, border forces in the Hawraman border area opened fire on a group of Kolbars, resulting in the death of a Kolbar identified as “Aram Khalil” from the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
He was hit by gunfire and died from his injuries.
The lifeless body of this young Kolbar was transferred to Khurmal Hospital in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region.
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.
