Two Kolbars from the city of Marivan were killed and injured by direct gunfire from border forces in the mountainous heights of Tateh Hawraman.
According to Kolbarnews, on the evening of Thursday, June 20, 2024, border forces opened fire on a group of Kolbars in the mountainous heights of Tateh Hawraman, resulting in the death of one Kolbar and severe injury to another.
The identities of the two kulbars are “Arkan Balwase” from the village of “Jalileh” and “Dana (last name unknown)” from the village of “Galieh,” both from the Marivan region.
The report states that due to the gunfire from the border regiment forces, Arkan Balwase was critically injured and died while being transported to the hospital near the town of Kanidinar, Marivan.
Dana was taken to Marivan hospital for treatment.
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 and 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.
