The health condition of a Kolbar from Sanandaj, who was injured by direct shooting from border guards, has been reported as critical.
According to Kolbarnews, the health of Fardin Vaisi, a Kolbar from Sanandaj who was shot with a pellet gun by border guards in the border area of Baneh on April 6, 2024, has worsened.
The report states that more than 24 pellets are lodged in Vaisi’s lung and 30 more are embedded in his body, leading to severe infections in his wounds.
Vaisi urgently needs surgery, but the operation has been delayed due to the high hospital costs and his inability to afford them.
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.
