A young Kolbar from the city of Javanroud was wounded by the direct shooting of border forces in the border area of Nowsud.
According to Kolbarnews, on Friday, April 19, 2024, border forces in the Nowsud border area opened fire on a group of Kolbars with hunting rifles, resulting in one Kolbar severely wounded in the right leg. The identity of this Kolbar is “Moein Sharifi,” twenty-four years old, from the city of Javanroud. It is worth mentioning that the injured individual has been transferred to Hazrat Rasool Hospital in Javanroud 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 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.
