Two child Kolbars were injured as a result of direct shooting by border forces at the Nowsud border.
According to Kolbarnews, on Sunday evening, April 28, 2024, border forces opened fire on a group of Kolbars at the Nowsud border, injuring two 16-year-old Kurdish child Kolbars from the villages of “Balbazan” and “Darehbiyan” in Paveh County.
Both of these childs were transferred to medical centers in the city of Paveh for treatment.
Identity of one of these child Kolbars, “Parsa Hosseini,” 16 years old, from the village of “Balbazan” in the suburbs of Paveh, has been reported. This Kolbar has been severely injured in the thigh area and is currently undergoing treatment in medical centers in Paveh, with his condition being unfavorable.
Furthermore, another 16-year-old child laborer, identified as “Sahand” (last name unknown), from the village of “Darehbeyan” in the suburbs of Paveh, has been severely injured by gunfire in the back and hip areas.
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.
