A Kolbar from the city of Baneh was severely injured by the direct shooting of border forces in the border strip of Marivan.
According to Kolbarnews, on the evening of Wednesday, April 24, 2024, border forces in the border strip of Qamisheleh, Marivan, targeted a group of Kolbars with military weapons, resulting in one Kolbar being severely injured. The identity of this Kolbar is “Sasan Mohammadi,” 28 years old, and from the city of Baneh. According to the report, he was targeted by two Kalashnikov bullets in his left hand and hip, to the extent that even after several days, he still cannot move his hand and leg. It is worth mentioning that one of the bullets hit him in the hip and exited from his abdomen.
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.
