Border guard forces in the Sardasht border region killed a Kolbar and threw his body into a river.
According to Kolbarnews, on Friday, May 31, 2024, border guard forces in the Sardasht border region shot and killed a Kolbar. After killing him, the military forces threw his body into a river.
The body was found by locals today, Saturday, June 1, 2024, 24 hours after the incident.
The identity of the kolbar has been confirmed by Kolbarnews as Rahim (last name unknown) from the village of Valio, a suburb of Sardasht.
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.