The military forces of the regime have killed several horses of merchants from the city of Saqqez in the border area of “Mishiya Aliya.”
According to Kolbarnews, on Thursday, May 9, 2024, the regime’s military forces in the border area of Saqqez targeted and shot several horses of merchants from the city of Saqqez.
It is worth mentioning that these pack animals are the only capital of the border merchants, through which they earn a living.
This is not the first time that the military and border forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran have killed these animals; rather, it has become a common practice for border forces.
In this regard, environmental activists and residents of the region have reacted and protested against this bitter event, but the border forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran continue this inhumane act.
The carcasses of these animals are left in the plains and foothills without being buried, causing environmental pollution and endangering the health of the local people, in addition to the negative repercussions.
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.
