A Kolbar from Saqqez was killed by direct shooting from border forces in the border areas of Bastam.
According to Kolbarnews, on International Workers’ Day, Wednesday, May first, 2024, a Kolbar from Saqqez was shot and killed by border forces at the Bastam border area of Saqqez city with a Kalashnikov, from a distance of one meter, near the heart.
The identity of this Kolbar, “Hemen Ahmadi,” 45 years old, married with one 8-year-old child, from the village of “Karizeh” in the outskirts of Saqqez city, has been confirmed.
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.
